Michele Cheng was introduced to puppetry in 2018 while working as a children's museum program specialist and an elementary school music educator. Since 2019, she has been incorporating puppetry into her creative work and animating objects as puppets. She started with two hand puppets— a squirrel and a fluffy sheepdog— and started building her own since 2022. She receives training between 2024-2026 through theatre courses including mask theatre, puppet theatre, and performing puppetry with puppeteer and movement artist Kate Brehm at Harvard University. She has done fieldwork in North America, Europe, and Taiwan, where she observes traditional and modern puppetry, studies puppet design and building with various materials and techniques, as well as practices applied puppetry.