How To Hire the Right Childrens Performer For Your Library Program

October 1, 2011

When librarians try to find a quality puppet show for their library program for the first time, there are easy blunders to fall into. Don’t make that mistake. Hire the right childrens performer the first time by avoiding these blunders.

Hiring a good, professional ventriloquist for your library program is easy, right? You just open the phone book, point your finger and hire, right? If you think that, you just fell into blunder number one. Librarians across the nation make these mistakes all the time, and they and their kids suffer for it.

A good puppet show for a library program will be more than a simple display of puppets. A professional ventriloquist and storyteller will take your library performance from boring and stale to dynamic, interactive, and entertaining. In addition to the quality of the entertainment and the message of the show, a professional ventriloquist will also be on time, prepared and precise, and deliver completely on all expectations for the performance. Don’t ompromise in any of these areas when you hire your childrens performer.

With all the preparing you have to do for your library programs and events, it’s easy to hire a performer without spending much time speaking to them. But it’s important to interview the entertainer and make sure that you feel good about their personality, their attitude, and their mindset about expectations and the performance. You absolutely have to know who it is that is going to be entertaining your kids. Some childrens performers don’t even like kids!

Another good idea is to check in with other librarians, and see what their experience was with the childrens ventriloquist you are looking at hiring. If any performer does not want to give you references, that’s a red flag.

Hiring the right performer for your library program is not always easy, but it’s always worth it. Just imagine the light in your kids eyes as the ventriloquist and their puppet friends make them laugh and get wide-eyed with the interaction. And with the lessons they’ll long remember after the show has ended, finding the right performer will be well
worth the effort.

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