Both Fleck and Fairlie have long been active within Toronto’s theatre, music and visual art scenes. He has taught puppetry arts at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, York University, University of Windsor, University of Guelph, the Toronto Teachers’ College, and at several C.O.D.E Conferences.Ĭaterwaul Theatre was founded by Erin Fleck and Sarah Fairlie in September 2013. He created Shuttle Dreams, a new-music shadow play with musicians Scott Wilson and Daria Kwiatkowska.

With Puppetmongers, he has created eleven new theatre works, toured extensively nationally and internationally, and received awards from both the theatre and puppetry communities in Canada and the USA. David’s other work has included design and building puppet, sets, masks and props for many theatre companies. Ann has also illustrated a number of books for children and written one, and was a founding member of Kids Can Press publishing company.ĭavid Powell, the other co-founder of Puppetmongers Theatre, has been involved with all levels of production: design, scripting, construction, marketing, touring, performing and administration. She teaches puppetry arts to adults at colleges, conferences and Puppetmongers’ School of Puppetry, and to children as an Artist in Education. Outside of Puppetmongers, Ann collaborates on projects with other theatre companies and artists, including an Arts for Peace theatre project in the former USSR with Whole Loaf Theatre. Puppetmongers was the Puppetry Department for Mr.

Ann Powell is co-artistic director of Puppetmongers Theatre, where she has been playing with puppets and creating critically acclaimed new works since establishing the company with her brother David in 1974, and touring with them around the world.

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