The Mind Creative March 2014
CONTRIBUTORS
LYNNE KENT is a puppeteer/performer who has
toured, trained and worked with various companies
including The Victorian Opera, Terrapin Puppet
Theatre, Erth Physical Theatre, The Melbourne
Women’s Circus, The Australian Centre for the Moving
Image and the Queensland Theatre Company. In
collaboration with ArtPlay, Lynne has produced works
at Federation Square for the 2008 Melbourne Puppet
Festival and for the 2009 Castlemaine State Festival.
Lynne has received funding for both creative development and professional
development to study with the Italian company, Teatro Gioco Vita at the
International Institute of Puppet Theatre, Charleville-Mezieres, France. She
is currently a PhD candidate in Media Arts conducting research into digital
and analogue puppetry techniques and has articles published in Australian
Puppeteer and I Pur Si Muove. Her area of expertise lies in presenting
innovative shadow theatre in simple, accessible ways and this includes
working in tents and up against walls.
Twitter: Lynne Kent@lynnequirk
SUE WALLACE has been co-artistic director at the
Sydney Puppet Theatre since 1984 which has
continued to create puppet theatre primarily for the
family audience. For 12 years they directed the much
loved The Rocks Puppet Cottage in Sydney. In 1998
they created the “One Van” international Festival of
Puppetry in Blackheath, NSW and Sue continued as
Festival Director for seven festivals.
In 2005 Sue was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study at puppet centres
in the USA, Britain, Ireland, France and Japan. She is now the director of
ImaginArta (www.imaginarta.com.au) - the Australian Puppet Centre
to promote puppetry through performance, workshops, discourse and
advocacy. In 2013, Sue was invited to perform her solo show “Nella’s Wings”
at five international puppet festivals in Turkey, Indonesia and Mexico.
Currently Sue is on the committees for UNIMA Australia and UNIMA’s Lorrie
Gardner Scholarship.
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