![]() ![]() ![]() Winner Best Film - Bunny Love - National Puppetry Festival, 2019. Puppeteers, enthusiasts, educators, and friends will all be gathering to celebrate the puppetry arts and experience our first festival together in four years. Pam Severns is an award winning comedian and puppeteer with one-of-a-kind acts. We will invite international performances, and several performances of puppetry schools in Europe, international festival directors and professors in order to start this dialogue and we hope to find long-term collaborators for the next projects included in Puck International Festival. We are excited for you to join us at the University of Maryland for the Puppeteers of America 2023 National Puppetry Festival and Academic Symposium. About a Dramaturgy of the Imaginary will host professional papers on diverse topics.Ĭluj Napoca is a city of a wide cultural diversity, therefore we will use the geographical advantage to explore the roots, the links, and the ’trends’ in puppetry. The 20th edition will launch an artistic debate on puppetry ’conventions’, a dialogue between different means of expression that have to be explored in a professional context. We think that an international festival can be the best media to reflect the state of nowadays puppetry as reflected in national and international productions. The previous 19 editions had gathered more than 400 performances and about 100.000 spectators. The Festival was established in 2002 and it is organized by Puck Puppet Theatre. Its 6th edition will take place in September 9th – 11th 2022. We are excited for you to join us at the University of Maryland for the Puppeteers of America 2023 National Puppetry Festival and Academic Symposium. In 2017 Puck Theater in collaboration with ESUA and Lions International, organized the first edition of WonderPuck Street Festival. The Festival reaches the 20th editions in October 17th – 21st 2022, bringing together notable national and international artists. Since 2002, Puck Theater is the organizer of Puck International Festival, addressed to puppet and marionette theaters from Romania and Europe. ![]() Reference shows in the repertoire of Puck Theater include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ubu the King, Widow Karnyó, Sânziana and Pepelea, Animal Stories, Cinderella, The Puss in Boots, Endless Youth and Life without Death, Little Red Ridinghood, Whitesnow, The Reed Princess, and many more. I have made and performed puppetry experiences + workshops for children, performed in the cabaret scene and at theatre festivals.Puck Puppet Theater from Cluj-Napoca was founded in 1950 and its history was written by well-established artists in the field, such as: Kovács Ildikó, Aureliu Manea, Mona Marian, Maria Mierlut, Varga Ibolya, Rumi László, Pály János, Bogdan Ulmu, Alexandru Rusan, Edit Botar, Virgil Svintiu, Eugenia Tãrãsescu Jianu, Epaminonda Tiotiu, Sandu Marian, Horea Pop and Péter János, Doina Dejica, Frunzina Anghel, Bothos Julia, Csortán Márton, György László, Calin Mureșan and others. I founded Nudge Puppets (2017) and co-founded the Visual Theatre company Hopeful Monster (2017). ![]() As a maker and puppeteer I have collaborated on projects with companies including Tortoise in a Nutshell, Children’s Classic Concerts, Running Dog Theatre and Theatre Gu Leor. I studied Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art (2012-2016) and trained at The Curious School of Puppetry (2017), the London School of Puppetry (2014/2015) and The Puppet Theatre Barge (2018). I am a Glasgow based Puppet Maker and Puppeteer. ![]()
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