Richard Bradshaw (puppeteer)

Richard Bradshaw OAM (born 1938) is an internationally renowned Australian puppeteer.
Richard Bradshaw is a one time Artistic Director of the Marionette Theatre of Australia. He is a particularly talented shadow puppeteer who also writes for puppets. In 2005, he was commissioned by Terrapin Puppet Theatre to write The Storyteller's Shadow: a Celebration of Hans Christian Andersen which toured around Tasmania, to Denmark and to Singapore and Malaysia. Jim Henson, a fellow puppeteer, featured the work of Bradshaw as part of a six-part television series on puppetry. His shadow puppets were used for animations and stories on Play School.
Bradshaw was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to puppetry and the performing arts.

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