Candice Burridge graduated from the Frank Ballard School of Puppetry at UConn, the University of Connecticut. After moving to NYC she worked 11 years with the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park. In tandem she was an Independent, Puppetry Director and designer at Theater for the New City, NYC.

After returning to CT in 2016 she became a Board of Directors member, and head puppeteer of East Lyme Puppetry Project Inc in 2017. Her day job is a Energy Consultant for Trinity Solar. Currently she's helping to develop "The Secret” as production manager, and marionette builder. (She grew up in Coventry, CT, the birth place of Nathan Hale.)

Voted in as Vice President on October 11, 2022.