RUSSELL DEAN 

Artistic Director of Strangeface Theatre Company UK. Productions include The Last Resort, A Christmas Carol, The Rake’s Progress Shooting the Moon Fen Boy, Spaced and Beached, Dissonance (aka The Hit), and Land a Click Away. 
 

National tour and winner of the Tehran International Puppet Festival. (writer/performer/maker) National tour (writer/performer/maker) Regional tour (writer/maker) Regional tour (writer/director/maker) Commission for Transported Art in Lincolnshire (maker/writer/performer) Commissions for Ideas Test. Small tabletop shows for unusual venues. Spaced was developed to work with vulnerable adults and families in Kent hospices. (maker/writer/performer). Wellcome Trust funded a puppet piece exploring cognitive dissonance. Breaking Bad meets Krapp’s Last Tape. (writer/designer/maker) Collaboration with Storypocket Theatre. Puppet and mask project exploring 21st-century life through stoneage bodies. (writer/designer/director) 
 

Mask maker for Homunculus walks about characters Mask maker for Vamos Theatre Nursing Lives, Finding Joy, The Best Thing. A Brave Face Puppet walkabout characters for Hobbledown adventure park in Epsom Maker of Margaret Thatcher puppet for Stephen Daldry’s Billy Elliot Mask maker for Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom national tour Designer maker for Coventry Mysteries project Mask maker for Geese Theatre Mask Maker for Trestle Theatre Mask maker for Channel 4 promotions of The Deal Mask maker for ITV Brit Awards ads.