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Henryk Jurkowski

- 6/11/2016

Polish historian and theoretician of the puppet theatre, theatre critic, playwright and university professor, Henryk Jurkowski was graduated and he was responsible for the puppetry section, as officer in the Polish Ministry of Culture, being professor in the puppetry schools in Poland, in Wroclaw, in Białystok. He has taught, as a guest professor, in many […]

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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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Helena Nilsson

- 6/11/2016

Helena Nilsson, born 1965, is a puppeteer, stage director and the artistic director of the Marionetteatern at the Stockholm City Theatre. She has had her professional training from Michael Meschke, and after three years as an apprentice at the theatre, she received her diploma. Over the years, she has worked in all of the professions […]

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Boris Konstantinov

- 6/11/2016

Boris Konstantinov, born 1968, is the current director of the Sergei Obraztsov Central Academic Puppet Theatre. He graduated in 1993 from the Siberian State Academy of Culture and Arts as a stage director, and from Saint Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, Puppetry Department. In the same city he founded a puppet theatre. Boris Konstantinov is the […]

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Albert Bagno

- 6/11/2016

Albert Bagno, born 1953 in France, is a puppeteer and researcher of world puppetry. He is founder (1989) of the association Marionetta e Terapia (Puppet and Therapy) in which he has studied various ways to use puppetry in teaching, for therapy and humanitarian activities. He is a member of UNIMA since 1976, was one of […]

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