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 […]
Read morePuppeteer, 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 […]
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Terence Tan Si Peng 陳世平 (he/his) is the Secretary of UNIMA Singapore and elected as supplementary councillor in 2016 and 2021. Notable achievements in puppetry include: Coordination, producer, and facilitator of the ASEAN Puppet Exchange from 2014-2017 involving professional and amateur puppeteers traditional and contemporary from Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Viet Nam, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, […]
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 […]
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