Ken Raabe is a Chicago actor, writer, puppeteer, and special education teacher. In 1973 and for some time afterward, he and John Szostek appeared regularly in bars and small stages in Chicago doing sketch comedy which eventually evolved into Deasil and Widdershins, the Lump Bros. After twenty years as an actor (Secret Circus, Asleep and Places Like It, Time Hangs A Louie), commercial trade show puppeteer and TV performer (Beyond the Magic Door, Emmy Award -1984, WBBM Ch 2), he turned to teaching and using theater skills in special education classrooms, currently at Pritzker School, in Chicago. (Oppenheimer Grant winner, 2001).

An original Piccolini, lo, these five years, Ken thinks this lovely company offers a way to tap into a reservoir of crazy old physical comedy - powerful, magical stuff that charges performers and audiences, both. He’s been in a lot of the company’s productions. He is Mr. Punch’s associate and presenter and has grown hard-of-hearing due to the incessant squawking. He likes to sing and play guitar and often tries to work it into the shows. He is a Pisces, which means he has two invisible fish in his head which are swimming furiously in opposite directions.