Jonny ClockWorks

Who is Jonny ClockWorks?

Jonny Clockworks is the stage name of puppeteer Jonathan Edward Cross. He's also the Artistic Director of The Cosmic Bicycle Theatre and The ClockWorks Experimental Puppetry Studios.

As a student at Emerson College, he was a member of the comedy troupe This is Pathetic, a group that includes such alumni as comedians David Cross, Laura Kightlinger, Anthony Clark, John Ennis and Julie Goldman.

He founded the Cosmic Bicycle Theatre in Boston in 1989. Early productions included interpretations of S.I. Witkiewitz's The Madman and The Nun and Molière's The Miser. He also debuted an original production, "Stories From the Four Corners of The Wheel".

In 1995, Cross relocated to New York City, where he opened The ClockWorks Experimental Puppetry Theatre. Cultivating a distinctive style, utilizing found objects and detritus as the basis for his creations, Cross developed and performed such works as "The Mechanical"; "The Marriage of Mother Earth and Father Sky"; "NetherWorld, A Morality Vaudeville"; "The Alchemical Work"; and "Dr. Kronopolis and the TimeKeeper Chronicles- A Space Opera".

The Company also developed miniature works, including "Clockwork Universalis or The Marvels of the Universe"; "Venus Envy- A Puppet Peep-Show"; and "Thanatopsis". These pieces were performed together as "An Evening of Miniature Masterpieces".