Puppet Maker
Aya designs and fabricates puppets both on commission and for her own projects. Her work ranges from small rod puppets to large outdoor floats, engaging a wide variety of audiences. She approaches each creation with careful consideration of the audience, dramaturgy, performance environment, and the specific requirements of the production.
Puppet Making credits include:
- An Improbable Musical (Improbable)
- RÓT/ROOTED (Handbendi Brúðuleikhús / The National Theatre of Iceland)
- Dog Day (Theatre Factory)
- Wayfaring Stranger (Jeff Pedersen Produksjonar, Norway)
- Snow White (TDF/Winterville)
- Dogs Don’t Do Ballet (Ballet Black)
- Tell Them That I Am Young And Beautiful (Marcello Magni Production, Arcola Theatre)
- Imaginary Friends (Whally Range All Stars/Theatergroep Babok)
- Mademoiselle Lychee (Aya Nakamura)
- Urban Dreams (London Bubble)
- Aliddon’s Kettle (EdComs)
- Madame (Rouge28 Theatre)
- Bush and Dog (Allez!! Theatre)
- Princess Pea Pea (doo-cot)
- The Lonesome Death of Eng Bunker (Wattle and Daub with Kakilang)
- Prayers for a Hungry Ghost (Kiss Witness & Barbican)
- Knuckles (Paramount Pictures)
- Kwaidan (Rouge28 Theatre)
- Medusa’s First Kiss (Meta Theatre & Little Angle Theatre)
- Christmas Carol (King’s Head Theatre, Islington)
- Heaps (Pin the Tale / Nationa Theatre Studio)
- The Adventures of Jason and Argonauts (Steam Industry, More London)
- Transitional Tale (FunnyWonders)
- Urashima Taro (Rouge28 Theatre)
- Siren of Titans (London Bubble)
- Burglar Bill (Pandora’s Box)
