Spica Wobbe (Shu-yun Cheng) is a puppetry artist originally from Taiwan. In addition to Flushing Town Hall, her work has been seen in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Holland, Germany, Israel, Austria and the United States. Now based in NYC, she has worked as a puppetry designer, performer and educator, since she received her M.A. in Educational Theater from New York University in 2003. She established Double Image Theater Lab in 2011 to create cross-cultural productions that explore the world of the past and the present.  

Spica received the Exemplary Teaching Artist Award from New York University in 2014. She is a two-time recipient of the Jim Henson Foundation grant and is a 2015 Sandglass Theater New Vision Series Resident Artist. Spica was the featured artist in “Shadow, Light... Hide & Seek Exhibit” at WenShand Theater in Taipei in 2015 and “Heaven of Puppets Exhibit” at Taipei Puppet Museum in 2016.

Spica co-created “The Memory Project: storytelling through visual arts, theater and puppetry” with Karen Oughtred in 2016 for culturally diverse senior centers. The project received LMCC SU-CASA and Creative Learning grants in 2017.