Puppet Maker Alison Duddle with interviewer Matt Tatwood, 2023 Festival
“It’s so useful to be able to just talk to practitioners and feel validated in our practice”
– 2017 audience member
2025 videos
Chloe Rodham
Chloe Rodham is an animator, puppet maker and model maker based in Newcastle, working across a number of creative disciplines including stop motion animation, long exposure photography and 2D motion graphics.
William Steele
William Steele is a puppeteer, producer, facilitator and puppet maker based in North Yorkshire. William Co-founded Moving Parts Arts with Kerrin Tatwood, and is also the Artistic Director of Life & Limb Puppets, which is based in Gateshead.
t'Magisch Theatertje
t'Magisch Theatertje, or ‘The Magic Theatre’, opened the doors of its unique 100 seat performance space in Maastricht, The Netherlands during 1996. Since then, the company has performed at festivals in over 35 countries all over the world
2024 videos
Lempen Puppet Theatre
One of the leading touring puppetry companies in the UK, North Yorkshire-based Lempen Puppet Theatre have shared their work around the world, and also founded Skipton Puppet Festival.
Sarah Vigars
Sarah Vigars is a puppet maker specialising in wood and strings based in South Devon, and one of the last remaining marionette makers in the UK.
Raven Kaliana
Raven Kaliana directs Puppet (R)Evolution, producing plays and films on social issues, and works as a freelance puppet maker, puppeteer, workshop leader, and animator.
Alison McGowan
North East-based Alison McGowan has an extensive puppetry career spanning over 20 years working in theatre, film and television as well as in educational and community settings.
The Paper Cinema
The Paper Cinema is an illustrated song, a shadow, a smoke, a mirror, a puppet show, a cinema show. It exists in the meeting of live music and moving drawings.
Zannie Fraser
Norfolk-based Zannie Fraser makes fun and imaginative shadow theatre for and with children and their families, and is a specialist in crankie performance and creation.
2023 videos
Alison Duddle
West Yorkshire-based Alison Duddle has 18 years experience creating puppets for stage, screen and parades around the UK and internationally.
mark pitman
Garlic Theatre is an award winning, international visual theatre company based in Norfolk that has toured to 21 countries outside the UK.
Marc Parrett
Leeds-based Marc Parrett of The OBJECT Project is a puppetry director, designer, performer and maker who has performed across the UK, Europe and Australia.
caroline ada
London-based Caroline Ada of Swallows Wings Puppetry combines her 20 years of teaching experience with puppetry practice to produce work based in real life stories.
josse vessies
International stars of puppetry, the Duda Paiva Company have performed their extensive and unique repertoire around the world.
2021 videos
Brian Herring
Brian is perhaps best known as the lead puppeteer for BB-8 in Star Wars VII-IX as well as numerous other puppets and animatronic creations throughout the saga.
Nik Palmer
Nik Palmer of Devon-based touring puppet company Noisy Oyster explores what CAD and 3D printing technology can bring to puppet design and construction. His research has resulted in some highly articulate puppets named 'Filabods' which have been sold to budding puppeteers worldwide.
Lesley-anne Rose
Lesley-anne Rose is an award-winning Newcastle-based film maker specialising in stop motion puppet animation. As well as having an interest in bizarre and surreal stories, Lesley-anne works with people from diverse and underrepresented communities to tell the stories less commonly told.
Laura Mathews
Nottingham-based Laura Mathews designs and makes articulated animals sculptures and puppets. Their work focuses on bio-mimicry and creating truly convincing impressions of life, studying the skeleton and muscular structures in depth.
2019 videos
Headstrung Puppets
Liverpool-based Headstrung Puppets create high-octane puppet cabaret shows and interactive experiences for all ages. They also produce the Puppet Parlour at the annual Shambala Festival.
Merlin Puppet Theatre
Originally from Greece, Berlin-based Merlin Puppet Theatre create wonderfully dark and playful puppet shows for adults and children.
Hop Signor Puppet Theatre
Greek touring puppet company Hop Signor create beautifully cinematic work for adults and children.
Judith Hope Puppet Maker
One of UK's leading puppet makers, London/Kent-based Judith Hope creates beautiful, fantastical puppets for stage, street and screen.
2017 videos
Stephen Mottram
Oxford-based Stephen Mottram is a world-leading marionette maker and puppeteer and has performed his work all of the globe for decades.
Gavin Glover
Glasgow-based Gavin Glover pushes the boundaries of puppetry and micro-cinema in his experimental creations.
Blind Summit Theatre (Fiona Clift)
London-based Blind Summit Theatre have toured work around the world, and created huge puppet spectacles for the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Steve Jarand
Steve Jarand is a leading improviser and mask performer, and specialises in teaching trance mask techniques all over the world.
