Our students have gone on to work at some of the most prestigious puppetry organisations in the world including the Little Angel Theatre, Compagnie Philippe Genty, Faulty Optic and our ex student Luis Boy was Artistic Director of Norwich Puppet Theatre.
- Sean Myatt / Compagnie Philippe Genty
(now running the Theatre Design course at Nottingham Trent University) - Liz and Daniel Lempen : Lempen Puppets and are also Artistic Directors of the Skipton Puppet Festival
- Urko Redondo Pescador / Faulty Optic
- Ida Marie Tjalve,Jonathan Storey / Little Angel Theatre
- Luis Boy, Jonathan Storey / The Norwich Puppet Theatre
- Ida Marie Tjalve, Tinka Slavicek / No-Nonsense Theatre Company and Teatrum Elasticum and Puppetellers
- Ida Marie Tjalve is also director of the Bornholm Puppet Festival.
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Yuki Muramatsu has worked for Hitomi Puppet Theatre and also developing freelance work and her own company.(seen here with her puppet carved by Kazuo Kudo)
Kazuo Kudo /Japanese marionette carver who trained with LSP -freelance maker in Japan.
- Celia Constantinesco has her own company Skatfingers and teaches at London School of Puppetry- see profile below.
- Emma Fisher / Bread and Puppet Theatre / Beyond the Bark Puppet and Installation Theatre
- Kay Yasugi / Gary Friedman Productions and also running her own company 'Pupperoos' is pioneering the marionette in primary schools. She is teaches at the London School of Puppetry.
- Kat Schumacher / Octopi! Puppet Theatre
- Kate James-Moore / Commedia Puppets
Some of our students have gone to work as puppet theatre practitioners; directing, performing and writing including Mervyn Miller who is currently working with the National Theatre on the award winning War Horse.
From time to time this page will focus on the work of different ex students.
Profile of Celia Constantinesco:
Photograph of Celia Constantinesco in Cam-isole a profound piece about a woman inhibited and isolated by custom and culture but finding access to freedom.
Her news:
I am happy to tell you that I've been touring all summer with Scopitone & Cie, performing Carmen's role
(from the french opera) in a shifted street theatre show ! It was great !
They also offer me to work on a tale with objects & puppets, to be part of the show we saw in Copenhagen.
I am building my own company as well, it will be official along january 2012 probably. I'll let you know.
I am currently working on a solo piece (object and shadow) in Rennes where I've found an amazing place
run by a group of artists. It takes place in an old fabric and I rent a workshop inside for a creative residency.
Comment: Celia Constantinesco has a dancerly approach to her use of puppets and objects. She inhabits and commands space in her performances. Her movement flows through the stories she tells, in expressive rhythmic phrases, she both defies weight and gives into it as her ideas unravel their secrets to us. Caroline Astell-Burt
