05/20/2026
🫘 MEET THE CAST 🫘
Yanniv Frank (Creator, Lentil) is a NYC based artistic creative focused on inspiring young minds through puppetry. Favorite performance credits include Off-B’way: Sesame Street The Musical, The Pocket Park Kids. Nat’l Tour: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, AJR The Maybe Man Tour. Regional: Sybil’s Ride, Food For The Gods, Runaway Rue. Yanniv has built puppets for stage and screen including Boyish Charms, his film that challenges and expands young audiences’ understanding of masculinity. Yanniv created the original stories and characters for Feel Your Best Self which took home the 2023 Kidscreen Award for Best Original Web/App Series. Yanniv holds an MFA in Puppet Arts from the University of Connecticut and serves on the board of the Puppetry Guild of Greater New York. Yanniv is an alumnus of The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Puppetry Conference and Sesame Workshop’s Puppeteer Training. In addition puppetry, Yanniv is a Berklee-trained musician with a catalog of over 50 original songs, including those featured on his three albums Common Human Soul, As I Am, and The Bittersweets.
See Yanniv in Garbanzo The Gentle Caveman, now through May 24 at The Tank. Tickets at brotherearth.org/garbanzo
