Livija Kroflin, born 1957, has an MA and a PhD in puppetry. She worked for twenty years as the artistic director and organizer of the Pupteatra Internacia Festivalo – PIF (International Puppet Theatre Festival) held annually in Zagreb. Since 2007, she is employed at the Department of Theatre at the Academy of Arts, University of […]
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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 […]
Read morePierre-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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Dimitri Jageneau is the General Secretary of UNIMA. He is the Councillor of UNIMA Belgium.
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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 […]
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