Summer reading · Family programs · Michigan
Michigan Library Ventriloquist Shows
Richard Paul is a clean, family-friendly comedy ventriloquist with a stage full of colorful, outrageous characters. Fast pace, funny improvisation and audience interaction — customizable to your summer reading theme.
- Fits your summer reading theme
- Music, magic & puppets
- Fully interactive
- All ages welcome
Two library programs
Pick the show that fits your program
One leans into family variety and laughs. The other builds the whole show around reading and imagination. Both can be customized to your summer reading theme.
Library Family Fun Variety Show
Music, magic, puppets and imagination collide in an interactive show where the audience becomes part of the act.
Reading programExploring Your Imagination
A show built around reading itself — how stories become movies, shows and games, and why someone had to read it first.
Program one
Library Family Fun Variety Show
Step right up and join the ultimate family adventure — a world where music, magic, puppets and imagination collide in a show designed for your whole audience.
This isn't just a show; it's an interactive experience where the audience becomes part of the magic. Kids discover the power of storytelling, the thrill of performance and the joy of reading, all wrapped into one event.
Customize it to your summer reading theme, or simply dive into a world of family fun. The choice is yours.
- Theme customizable
- Audience volunteers
- All ages
Program two
Exploring Your Imagination
A show that isn't just about reading — it's about igniting the mind and discovering what reading opens up. Along the way the audience sets reading goals that carry them well past their own world.
Here's the secret at the heart of it: reading isn't just for books. It's the key that unlocks movies, TV shows and video games. Behind every blockbuster there's a script, and someone, somewhere, read it first to build those worlds.
Through lively ventriloquist characters, captivating storytelling and interactive fun, kids and parents dive into the heart of reading and see how it sparks the fire of imagination.
- Reading-focused
- Summer reading ready
- Kids & parents
Why libraries matter here
This whole career started in a library
Richard discovered ventriloquism in a book when he was twelve. That discovery changed his life, and by fourteen he was performing his first shows.
The books that built the act — comedy, ventriloquism, magic, puppetry — came from his local library's summer reading program. Every library show he performs now runs on what those shelves gave him.
What youth services staff get
Built for the way library programs actually run
Summer reading ready
The show can be customized to your summer reading theme, so the program reinforces the campaign you are already running.
Draws the crowd
Library hosts report big turnout and repeat bookings, with feedback from parents of younger kids as well as older ones.
Easy to work with
Self-contained show, clean humor across the full age range, and a performer who has run this room many times before.
From youth services
What Michigan libraries say
“Thank you for a great show, staff have received a lot of positive feedback (even from parents of younger kids) that their families had a great time and really enjoyed your performance!”
Eria G.Jackson District Library
“Thanks again, Richard, it was a GREAT show and everyone I talked to afterward had a really amazing time!”
Elizabeth Phillipson, Head of Youth ServicesHighland Township Public Library
“Hi Richard, once again, we received great feedback on your program.”
Kelly Flynn, Community Relations ManagerGenesee District Library
“The kids truly enjoyed your show! You had a big crowd for each show and all I heard was laughter!”
Shannon SmithCanton Leisure Services, Canton, Michigan
Summer reading dates fill early
Tell Richard your dates, your room and your theme, and he'll tell you which program fits.
Contact Richard