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Karen Smith

- 15/07/2022

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 […]

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Tito Lorefice

- 15/07/2022

Tito 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 […]

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Tang Dayu

- 6/11/2016

Tang Dayu, born 1945, studied Jingju opera at the Chengdu Drama School and was selected for the Jingju Opera Institute in Beijing. She worked as a Jingju actress (1962-1972), was appointed to the Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Culture in 1982, and later became Director of the Chengdu Puppetry and Shadow Art Theatre. Tang Dayu played […]

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