About Me
My Beginnings
An Amazing Life
An Amazing Life
From my earliest years I've wanted to perform. When unexpected events led me to puppeteering, I knew it was my calling.
An Amazing Life
An Amazing Life
An Amazing Life
I have been fortunate beyond my wildest dreams for all the performing opportunities over the years. From performing in bars to national TV on America's Got Tallen. I am filled with gratitude.
My Life Today
An Amazing Life
My Life Today
I continue to perform whenever I am called. Lately, Aunt Eunice and I are working on our on-line presence.
Meet Eddie
Additional Information
How many people go from being an exotic dancer to a puppeteer? Eddie may be the first. When the Atlanta, Georgia, club where Eddie worked had an amateur night, on a whim and as a joke he made a puppet and did a short act, figuring that was the only time he’d ever do that. But the act was so popular the club manager told Eddie to hang up his G-string because he was doing a puppet act from then on. Since that night many years ago, Eddie Green and the Puppet Divas have entertained thousands on both coasts of the U.S. And in between.
In the Atlanta area Eddie has performed at various night clubs including Backstreet, P’s Annex, Onyx Lounge, The Armory, The Heretics, and other establishments. In May 2003 he performed at L’Buzz , near Atlanta in Cobb County. He’s also toured many other locations throughout Georgia and Florida.
Since Eddie has been in California he has performed at night clubs, The Center, and Balboa Park in San Diego, and in Palm Springs he’s performed at numerous night clubs, including The Villa Resort and the Wild Goose Lounge with the Ivana Tramp Show. Additionally, Eddie has performed for millions on the “American’s Got Talent” stage.
Eddie makes it a point to perform at as many HIV/AIDS events as he can each year and an annual private Halloween party benefit.
It seems as though a new “cast member” shows up to join the divas with persistent regularity. From the one lone Miss Thing in the beginning, Eddie now has a total of five puppets, each with her own distinctive look, personality and “attitude, girl.” These life-size puppets are all painstakingly crafted by him. He paints the skin and makeup, attaches and styles their hair, designs and constructs their costumes. “Our house looks like a drag queen’s dressing room,” Eddie quipped recently.
All of the puppets are inspired by Eddie’s idolization of certain pop singers of the day, among them Dolly Parton, Patti Labelle and Cher. According to Eddie, the puppets range in personality from “good girl” to “absolutely bad girl” — though certain of the divas might disagree.
Reviews
BUZZ MAGAZINE, JULY 10-23, 2003, #149
Eddie Green has been entertaining San Diegans with his quaint southern accent and charming life-sized puppets in small and intimate shows. Now, for the first time in his 20 years of performing, Eddie brings his puppetry to the stage in his premiere full-length play, Eddie and the Puppet Divas present Miss America and Miss Runner-up at Sixth at Penn Theater, opening July 18. The show is presented in a pageant format, with Eddie bringing five puppets to life. “We’re going to let the audience pick who they want to be Miss America and Miss Runner-up,” Eddie says about the show. “According to the crowd, it’ll be a different winner each night.”
Along with co-host Cybile d’Sobedience — “he’ll be dressed in drag, of course,” Eddie says — Eddie performs as the innocent Polly Darton, the ruthless Roxy, the vain Cher Delight, good-girl Lupita, and his oldest puppet, Miss Thing. Regardless of who wins, Eddie says each puppet will win your heart with her sparkling personality, sumptuous costuming and awesome talent.
San Diego POZabilities 3rd Anniversary Celebration program, July 5, 2003
Eddie Green has been performing for over 25 years all over San Diego [and the East Coast] and has become a tradition of sorts for us in San Diego POZabilities. He performs for special events supporting the GLBT and HIV/AIDS communities.
This year we also are proud to announce that Eddie will be performing with his Puppet Divas from July 8th to August 9th at the 6th and Penn Theater located in Hillcrest.
This will be Eddie’s third year performing at our Anniversary Dinner and we would like to thank him for joining us again.
A review of a performance at the bamboo lounge
http://cms.wehaaserver.com/article-9324-Enrique-on-Eddie-&-The-Puppet-Divas.html
For some gay men, making a living by having your hand up someone’s ass is nothing short of a dream. For Eddie Green, it’s a reality.
A big Muppets and Wayland and Madame fan, Green first dabbled in puppeteering when he was go-go dancing at a club in Atlanta that decided to organize an all-staff drag show.
“It was down to the wire, and I created a drag puppet called Miss Thing whose act killed it,” he recalls. “The owner of the club came up to me after and said, ‘Hang up your G-string—you’re doing this from now on.’” Thirty-five years later, Green is captivating audiences with his show Eddie & The Puppet Divas. His stable of plushy putas includes likenesses of Dolly Parton, Celine Dion and a more realistic than the actual flesh-and-bone Cher.
“Anyone here from out of town?” emcee Lady Ajax asked the crowd at Hillcrest’s Bamboo Lounge. “You know, La Mesa?
National City?” The hostess would later introduce geriatric diva Granny Pearl, saying: “You know her from countless appearances on YouTube and varied crime-scene videos.”
Dressed in head-to-toe gold, and with a voluminous white afro that could rival Santa’s bush, Pearl sang a heartfelt rendition of “Tyrone” and, prodded by the audience’s positive response, came back for seconds, “just like she does at the Chicken Pie Shop,” Ajax said The crowd warmed up, Green took the stage and unveiled a new character named Aunt Eunice.
Her hair up in a tight bun and donning an LDS church-approved, ankle-length gown, the chain-smoking doll excused herself while she “slipped into something more comfortable”—a completely see-through black number that left nothing to the imagination and would have made Lamb Chop pee her chamois panties in horror.
“I don’t know about you, but to me, those look like a dangling pair of extra large TruckNutz,” the emcee said, pointing to the cougar puppet’s décolletage.
Mid-performance, Eunice mouth-kissed the fellas (me included), gave impromptu lap dances, motorboated the “real live lesbians” in the house and, yes, even performed a simulated BJ, which the recipient was totally into.
“What are you, some sort of puppetphile?” Ajax asked him.
“I’m not sure if it’s the lighting in here or the sangria, but it’s been a while, and at this point, I’ll take anything I can,” he replied.
Update, July 10, 2003, Issue 1124
The highlight of the evening’s talent was Eddie Green and his Puppet Divas. (From an article entitlted, “San Diego POZabilities Celebrates Anniversary.”)
Reviews
GAY & LESBIAN TIMES, JULY 31, 2003, ISSUE 814
Eddie Green brings his manic Puppet Divas to 6th@Penn in the hilarious sendoff, Miss America and Miss Runner-up. Originally a standout song from the old Broadway production Playgirls, Eddie parodies the gay drag musical Pageant from a few years back, letting the audience vote on who will be Miss America and Miss Runner-up, based on beauty and talent. Will it be Polly Darton, Cher Delight, Roxie Starr or Lupita Margarita Lopez? (There is actually an openly lesbian NYC council member named Margarita Lopez.) Mr. Green must have locked himself in a room and gone berserk for four weeks armed with a hot glue gun, lots of feather boas and big hair. So go see Miss America at 6th@Penn on Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30 p.m. Through Aug. 9 only.