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Turkish puppeteer of [karagöz] [shadow theatre]. Born in Istanbul, İhsan Dizdar worked at the theatre branch of Üsküdar People’s House in high school…
Nigerian farmer and puppetry artist. Djibir Djouli, magician, illusionist and healer of body and spirit, follows in his family tradition. His father Djouli was a well-known puppeteer…
Swedish puppet theatre. Dockteatern Tittut (Peek-a-boo Puppet Theatre) was founded in Stockholm in 1977 by puppeteer/actor Ing-Mari Tirén and pre-school teacher Eva Persson. Tirén, who was a member of [Marionetteatern] since its founding…
Traditional Portuguese glove puppet theatre. Its principal figure, Dom Roberto, as well as other European popular heroes such as the famous Pulcinella…
German family of marionettists. Members of the Dombrowsky family have been practising the art of traditional Saxon string puppetry for seven generations. The beginning of the dynasty dates back to 1810 with Johann Anton Kressig…
The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana), a Caribbean nation on the island of Hispaniola in the Antilles, is bordered in the north by the Atlantic Ocean…
The first puppet-stage adaptations of the figure of Don Juan date to the 19th century and were largely inspired by the work of Tirso de Molina…
Paraguayan puppet troupe founded in 1977 in Asunción, Paraguay, by Elisa Godoy and Humberto Gulino. Since its inception, the company has become highly focused on puppetry for children…
Japanese soloist puppet company created in 1974 in Tokyo by Okamoto Hoichi (1947-2010) who performed as Hyakki-Dondoro. Born in Hiroshima, Okamoto Hoichi studied puppetry, mask…
British company of puppets and objects founded in Manchester in 1991 by puppeteer Nenagh Watson and painter Rachael Field. The Doo-Cot company explored the relationships between the staged performance and fine art and their shows worked across and between forms…
German private, touring theatre. The Dorftheater Siemitz was founded in 1997 in the village of Siemitz (region of Mecklenburg) by puppeteers, filmmakers and musicians, Sabine Zinnecker and Dietmar Staskowiak (also a composer)…
Polish stage designer, stage director and managing director of puppet theatres, trained as a teacher. Jan Dorman studied painting at the Cracow (Kraków) Academy of Fine Arts (1938-1939 and 1944-1945)…
Swiss puppet theatre association. Double Jeu was established in 1987 in Lausanne by Théâtre Globule and La Rose des Vents with a view to giving the city a regular season of puppet performances…
Czech puppet theatre founded in Hradec Králové (Eastern Bohemia) in 1958. The original name of this well-known theatre was Východočeské loutkové divadlo (Puppet Theatre of Eastern Bohemia)…
Dramaturgy, or writing for the theatre, generally implies the production of text to be spoken on the stage. In contrast to the living actor, the puppet has no vocal cords…
Character from the Mahabharata, a central figure in Indian theatre. Draupadi, also known as Panchali, princess of the forest kingdom…
German puppet collection. This national collection of puppets was created in 1952 in Dresden from the private collection of Otto Link (1888-1959), a teacher in Leipzig…
Theorist of traditional puppetry, mask dance and folk culture of South Korea. Lee Du-hyun received a doctorate in Korean Literature from Seoul National University in 1968…
French travelling puppeteer. Hector Duchemin owes his celebrity to the popularity of two characters, Tape-à-l’oeil and Bastian, which he performed with at fairs and religious festivals of small villages and towns throughout Provence and part of Languedoc…
Nigerian master carver of puppets and masks. Born into a family of carvers, Duga was one of the master sculptors of masks and figures used in gelede masquerade…
Turkish puppeteer and shadow theatre player. When very young Talat Dumanlı
was apprenticed to Hafiz Ahmet and collaborated later with artists such as Naşit…
French novelist, art critic, and journalist. A defender of Realism, Louis Edmond Duranty became famous with his novel Le Malheur d’Henriette Gérard (The Misfortune of Henriette Gérard…
Bulgarian puppet theatre based in Plovdiv. The theatre, which would become the Durzhaven kuklen teatur Plovdiv (State Puppet Theatre Plovdiv, today generally called Puppet Theatre Plovdiv or Plovdiv Puppet Theatre in English) was founded in the autumn of 1946 by circus and marionette performer Georgi Saravanov…
Bulgarian puppet theatre based in the city of Varna. The theatre, which would become the Durzhaven kuklen teatur Varna (State Puppet Theatre Varna, today generally called Puppet Theatre Varna or Varna Puppet Theatre in English)…
Indian puppeteer and puppet theatre director. Suresh Dutta trained in art, classical Indian dance (including kathakali, bharatanatyam, and Manipuri), and music under various well-known teachers in West Bengal…
French puppeteer. As a young 27-year-old electronics engineer, Alain Duverne attended a performance of Les Autruches (Ostriches) by Philippe Genty…
Czech visual artist, puppeteer, director, and teacher. By the time Jan Dvořák had graduated from a school of applied arts in Jablonec nad Nisou as an engraver he had already been connected with the puppet theatre for several years…
Slovak Nativity puppet play. Nativity puppet plays derived from the Slovak popular theatre based on Middle European folk traditions. Generally called “Bethlehem plays”, they appeared in Slovak popular (folk) theatre during the Middle Ages…
Polish actor-puppeteer, stage director and managing director of puppet theatre. Andrzej Dziedziul began his career in 1957 in Poznań at Teatr Animacji w Poznaniu (Poznan Theatre of Animation) where he qualified as an actor-puppeteer…
French company created in 1998 in Amiens by Katerini Antonakaki (Athens, 1964), who graduated from ESNAM (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette) in Charleville-Mézières…
The Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: República del Ecuador) in north-western South America, which also includes the Galápagos Islands, is home to various indigenous peoples, which by the 15th century were incorporated into the Inca Empire…
Even though its origin may be uncertain, puppetry is definitely linked to doll playing and mythological figures. This bond originating with childhood and mythological times presents a dual interpretation: on the one hand…
With one of the longest histories of any modern country, Egypt (Egyptian Arabic: مَصر Maṣr), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt (جمهورية مصر العربية Arabic: Jumhūriyyat Miṣr al-ʿArabiyya…
Argentine puppet and object theatre company. Founded in 1989 in Buenos Aires by Ana Alvarado, Daniel Veronese, and Emilio García Wehbi, El Periférico de Objetos was closely moulded after Ariel Bufano and the troupe of the Grupo de Titiriteros del Teatro Municipal General San Martín…
The Republic of El Salvador (Spanish: República de El Salvador), in Central America, is bordered by Guatemala, Honduras and the Pacific Ocean…
Russian actor, theatre director and playwright. Having graduated from high school in 1940, Yuri Eliseev was drafted just before the beginning of World War II…
Spanish street theatre company. Founded in 1971 in Barcelona, Els Comediants (also Comediants) is directed by Joan Font Pujol, principal director and founding member of the troupe…
British company founded in London in 1982 by Debbie Mullins, Les Sharp and Bob Harris. At first influenced by companies such as Welfare State International…
Absent from most dictionaries, the French technical term “ensecrètement” means, in a general sense, the vow of secrecy undertaken (or undertook…
Chilean puppet company. Equilibrio Precario (Precarious Equilibrium) was created in 2000 in Santiago by Arturo Rossel. After theatrical training and a stint at the circus…
School created in 1987 in Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes, France). The École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture…
Cuban puppet theatre. The company is based in Matanzas and was created in 1994 by Rubén Darío Salazar (actor and artistic director) and Zenén Calero Medina (set…
The Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Vabariik) is located in the Baltic region of Northern Europe, and is one of the three Baltic States along with Latvia and Lithuania…
Summer residence of Prince Nikolaus I of Eszterházy with a marionette theatre. The Eszterháza (Esterháza) Palace, located to the south-east of Lake Neusiedl in present day Hungary…
Europe developed its own specific culture in the field of puppetry in spite of folk migrations from Asia and influences (mainly Egyptian) from Africa…
An active member of UNIMA, the European Centre for Figure Theatre is located in a former Carmelite convent in the heart of the historic 17th century district of Ghent (Belgium)…
Multidisciplinary Canadian theatre company founded in 1994 by Robert Lepage. Along with actors, opera singers, puppeteers, contortionists, acrobats and musicians, Ex Machina accords a privileged place to the puppet…
Bulgarian actor, director, journalist, translator. As a student in Zagreb, Eugen Fabiany worked in theatre, which he continued to pursue when he moved to Sofia…
From their first appearance, probably in the 17th century, the fairs were occasions for performances of seasonal shows and festivals. But it was at the end of the 16th century…
Canadian puppet company. Founded 1974 in Toronto by Diane Lynn Dupuy (Hamilton, Ontario, 1948), the company is composed primarily of handicapped performers. The Famous People Players has performed throughout Canada…