Raised in Oakland & Berkeley, California, Geahk Burchill co-founded a comic book company at age 15. After an unsuccessful beginning, with only three issues published, he discovered storytelling through marionettes at a fateful party, joining a puppet troupe in 1998.

However, information on how to build marionettes was extremely difficult to come by in the mostly pre-internet era. Early puppets were built using 7 photocopied pages from a 70 year-old, rare book in the reference section of the Berkeley public library.

Over the next 25 years he would make it his mission to lower the barrier-of-entry to this amazing art form, by creating templates, posters and videos, detailing the step-by-step process—of a method he largely had to invent in a vacuum. Since then, he’s tinkered endlessly with creating the ideal, beginner-friendly design, to make the puppets emotive, reliable, and move with all the life and grace a puppeteer can imbue them.