about
When asked to run a puppetry workshop for a local community group Sophie struggled to find the kind of puppets that she wanted to teach with. They needed to be expressive enough to work with and yet neutral enough to take on any number of stories. They needed to be the kind of puppets that were open enough to teach core principles of performance puppetry. In an excited conversation together, Sophie and Annie decided to launch PuppetBox.
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PuppetBox design, make and sell puppets that are handmade to order, either as individual puppets or as a set with an education pack. We offer a range of workshops to suit you or your organisation. You can find out more information or purchase any of these from our shop.
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who
Annie and Sophie met when Annie was commissioned to make a puppet of Sophie for a performance. Since then, they have collaborated on a number of projects together for a variety of companies including MoominsTM, Long Nose Puppets, OH! Productions and Get Lost & Found.
Annie is a puppeteer, performer, maker and theatre practitioner. ​She has made puppets, props and sets for Moomins™, Chemical Brothers, OH! Productions, Touched Theatre, Sam Walker Music, Tucked In, Get Lost and Found, Bard and Troubadour, Birmingham Stage Company, Strangeface, Whalley Range All Stars, Time Run (London) plus many more. Annie is currently performing in Arthur's Dreamboat (Long Nose Puppets) and Mischief & Mystery in Moominvalley (Get Lost & Found. Recent theatre credits include: Penguin (Long Nose Puppets); Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas (Lyric Hammersmith); Pat-a-cake Baby (Long Nose Puppets) Fantastic Fox Hunt (FoulPlay); Bird (Forward Theatre); Beowulf (Atomic Force) Fish Pie (Colossal Crumbs); Imaginary Friends (WRAS); Grimm Fairytales (FoulPlay). Annie and Sophie are currently working on Long Nose's new show, 'The Hug' - an adaptation of the book by Eoin McLaughlin and Polly Dunbar. It will tour in Autumn 2020.
Sophie is a puppeteer, performer, writer and teacher also based in Brighton. She co-wrote and performs in the official Moomin Puppet show Mischief and Mystery in MoominValley. A regular performer for Long Nose Puppets she is currently touring Out of The Hat! and has performed in Shoe baby, Penguin, Fly Away Katie, Arthur’s Dream Boat and Patacake Baby. Other performance credits include Flat Pack with OH! Productions, Steven Whinnery’s Lying with the animals for the London International Mime Festival, Facepack Theatre Are You A Drip?, Theatre Rotto/idolRich,Proteus Theatre Company, David Furnham Productions, Polka Theatre and Installations with Meg Power. Sophie has a wide variety of teaching and directing experience from workshops in the community to regular contributions at Rose Bruford Drama College. As a writer Sophie was awarded a distinction in her MA in Creative Writing from Chichester University, and was the recipient of the Kate Betts Memorial
prize for best writing on the MA. Other awards include the Exeter story Prize 2017 and long listing for both the Cambridge story prize and Myriad first drafts 2017.
