Puppeteer, stage director, teacher President of the UNIMA Professional Training Commission Vice President of UNIMA International President Three Americas Commission Professor at the National University of San Martín, UNSAM, Argentina Professor at the Central Academy of Drama, CAD, Beijing, China Founder of the Bachelor’s Degree in Puppet Theater and the Master’s Degree, at the National […]
Read moreKatarina Klančnik Kocutar, born 1968, studied at the University of Ljubljana at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. She worked in the 1990s as a journalist and critic and was, from 1999 to 2004, artistic director and manager of the Puppet Theatre Maribor. She is today dramaturge of the same theatre, works in […]
Read moreLouise Lapointe, born 1959, has a diploma in theatre, technical production, from Ryerson Institute, Toronto, Canada (1984) and a certificate in puppet construction from the Institut International de la Marionnette, Charleville-Mézières, France (1992). She has worked at the Académie des Arts du Théâtre in Montreal (1988-2012) as a stage technician. She has contributed to some […]
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 […]
Read moreCariad Astles is a puppeteer, teacher, trainer, researcher and director. She works at as puppetry tutor at both Exeter University and also at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She specialises, amongst other things, in applied puppetry, with a particular focus on puppetry in healthcare settings, including hospitals. She has published […]
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