ShadowLight Productions produces award winning, live large-scale cinematic shadow theater performances and traditional Balinese style shadow theater plays and films. We hold and maintain a digital archive of over 50 years of documented international shadow theater traditions, including shows produced by our theater company. These archives contain audio, video, traditional puppets from multiple cultural traditions and physical ephemera from our past productions. We are working to make our archives accessible for research and inspiration. We are a wealth of resources for shadow theater practitioners and provide spiritual, material and fiscal sponsorship support to artists in the SF Bay Area and beyond.

Our educational programming provides first-hand experience in our unique form of projected shadow theater for schools, community organizations, colleges, teachers and performing artists through workshops, residencies and performances by professional shadow theater artists.

Over the last three decades, our school program has introduced the art form of Shadow Theatre to numerous students around the SF Bay Area and beyond. Shadow Theatre is traditionally a community-building art form, providing the public with a place to connect with mythology, history, families and neighbors. It is also a collaborative, manual venture, where all involved have their hands on every aspect of the creative process, and has proven to be a powerful all-around teaching tool for young minds. We hope to inspire our students to take part in the long lineage of the Shadow Theatre tradition – this we also consider as part of our mission and legacy.