Sophia Michahelles

The couple's work, under the informal moniker "Superior Concept Monsters" has been commissioned each year since 1998 to lead New York's Village Halloween Parade,[2] the largest puppet parade and street-pageant of its kind in the United States, drawing two million spectators.

In 2001, as a response to the attack on the World Trade Center, Michahelles herself designed an incandescent baby phoenix puppet for the New York parade, as a symbol of rebirth from the ashes.

She performed in Twist's Off-Broadway show Symphonie fantastique (1998 and 2004) presented at Dodger Stages.

Since 2002, Michahelles and Kahn have taught a summer workshop in pageant puppetry and processional art in the mountain village of Morinesio, located in the Italian Alps.

They draw on local history as an inspiration for the artistic themes of the puppet creations and folk festivals that are part of the workshop.