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Livija Kroflin

- 15/07/2022

Livija Kroflin lives in Zagreb, Croatia. She is an associate professor with the theatre arts department of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek’s Academy of Arts and Culture, where she heads up the puppetry programme and teaches courses in the history and aesthetics of puppetry for which she devised the teaching plans. She also […]

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Pierre-Alain Rolle

- 15/07/2022

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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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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Katarina Klančnik Kocutar

- 15/07/2022

Katarina 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 […]

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