Pierre-Alain Rolle, born 1954, is a comedian, puppet creator, stage director and director of his puppet theatre company ”Guignol à Roulettes” founded in 1981 with some twenty shows produced to date. His shows have toured in Europe and internationally. He has also trained puppeteers as well as school teachers in the use of puppetry in […]
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Dadi Pudumjee, born 1951, trained under legendary puppetry artist Meher Contractor, was a guest student at Marionette Theatre Institute] in Stockholm under Michael Meschke, where he also participated in workshops run by Minosuke Yoshida of the National Bunraku Theatre in Osaka, Japan. Dadi Pudumjee is founder of the cross-cultural company, The Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust […]
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Karen Smith, born 1954 in Australia, trained and worked as a puppeteer, designer and builder at the Shri Ram Centre Puppet Repertory, Jan Madhyam, and Ishara Puppet Theatre in New Delhi (India), and studied Javanese wayang kulit at Sanggar Redi Waluyo in Jakarta (Indonesia). From 1986, she was a member of UNIMA India, and later […]
Read moreTito Lorefice, born 1957, is a puppeteer, actor, stage director, musician and teacher. He directs the department of puppetry and object theatre at the Instituto Artístico Mauricio Kagel, Universidad Nacional de San Martín. He has also directed the university puppet theatre company and college students in the BA courses in Puppetry Performing Arts. During the […]
Read moreLucile Bodson, born 1950, was director of Théâtre de la Marionnette in Paris from 1992 to 2003, when she took over as a director of the Institut Internationale de la Marionnette (IIM) and of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette (ESNAM), the latter a post she held until 2014. In 2015/2016, she […]
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