John Roberts. Designer, director, performer. Founder and artistic director of PuppetCraft. See Background of PuppetCraft.
Martin
Corbin. Maker and performer.
He
has been involved
in puppetry from 6 years old. He has a B.A. Honours in Animation and
is co-ordinator of a Scrap Store project.
He is one of the fastest and most inventive puppet makers about, runs
workshops and performs.
He has worked on 7 PuppetCraft shows.
She occasionally escapes to teach and run workshops.
Her work has helped create a distinctive look to PuppetCraft's work.
Rachel
Miller is a musician, composer and storyteller who
brings tales to life through beautiful music and evocative sonic textures.
She uses a wide variety of instruments including an electronic set up
that allows her to sample and create the musical textures live.
As a flautist and saxophonist she has performed and recorded with a
wide range of different groups including folk, jazz, experimental and
electronic music. www.sonictales.co.uk
Andrew Dickson. Musical Director. He has worked as actor/ director/ composer/ acrobat from Bridlington to Borneo. He was petrified as Rex Harrison’s personal mirror-bearer on the original Doctor Doolittle, so has had previous experience of working with Gorgons and animals.
His music was nominated for an Oscar for composing on his 6th Mike Leigh film Vera Drake.
Jo is a classically trained french horn player… she chose the french horn because it looks like a snail, points the wrong way, and isn't a trumpet.
After this austere musical beginning it seemed a natural step to make a dash for the world of puppetry, where she's met Unicorns, a singing cat, a hurdygurdy player, a Giant, and is turning her hand to carving and painting puppets.
This is her 4th PuppetCraft show.
Libby
Quick. Puppet
Performer. Libby is an artist, maker and singer. She studied at Dartington
College of Art, specialising in theatre devising, tea and cake. www.libblegibbon.co.uk
Puppet experience includes working with 'The Clockwork Moth' and
'the little oak folk' theatrical companies.
Earlier this year Libby was asked by DAPA & Giddy Kipper
Anomaly to create a VERY LARGE giant baby puppet for the National
Theatre's connections project.
Steve
Potier.
Player of Bouzouki and other strings.
Was plucked from the streets of Totnes by PuppetCraft whilst on a bicycle
powered busking tour of the South West. He has been playing European traditional
music for 12 years.
Sophie
Greatorex. Singer. Performer.
Sophie has been involved with theatre and music from an early age and
has a BA (Hons) in Theatre. During her studies she worked with both theatre
and music in performance and first tried her hand at puppetry. She has
performed within small vocal groups, is a member of a choir and writes
songs and choral compositions for performance.
Patrick Cooper. Writer. Director. Fell into the wonderful world of puppets, from which he has never managed to escape. He's the author of five children's books, and a number of plays, and has adapted and directed several shows for PuppetCraft, including The Selfish Giant and The Mousehole Cat. He has three kids and lives in Totnes.
This is how he liked to be described: the Shadow Poet Laureate, was born in Cricklewood in l932 and educated by wolves. When he was eight he read the story of Perseus under a monkey puzzle tree on a hot summer day. For the first and last time in his life, he fainted with excitement.
He adapted the Greek myth Perseus and the Gorgon's Head for PuppetCraft - for whom he also wrote Sir Fool's Quest and, with Sasha Mitchell, Nobody Rides The Unicorn.
He is badly missed.