Dr. Matt Smith has thirty years experience, working in landscapes, prisons, with environmental agencies, health, youth arts, disability arts groups and with the homeless. Smith’s practice is interdisciplinary mixing drama, puppetry, masks, and junk music. Publications include (2015) The Practice of Applied Puppetry: Antecedents and Tropes, (2016) Thinking Through the Puppet inside Immigration Detention. and (2018) Hand to Hand: The Dynamic Situation of Applied Puppetry.