Linda Wingerter is a third generation puppetry artist performing, filming, and building puppets and kinetic art as The Stringpullers Puppet Company in Ithaca, New York. Working primarily in cardboard puppets, marionettes, and shadow puppetry, she began putting her work on film in 2019. She received a Handmade Puppet Dreams Micro-Commission to create the short puppet film Misophonia in 2021.