Jon Coddington

Jon (he/him) promotes himself as a theatre designer and collaborator, illustrator, animatorand sculptor, and has been primarily working as a puppeteer and puppet maker for 8 years. Highlights include sell-out Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin, Adelaide, Perth, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit Puppet Fiction (2012-18), a marionette homage to the movie Pulp Fiction, and the manipulation and making of marionettes and puppets for Fat Freddy’s Drop’s music videos ‘Clean The House’ and ‘Special Edition’. He has worked in screen puppetry with training by Muppeteer Peter Linz at Whoa Studios in Auckland, created puppets for the New Zealand Arts Festival show The Devil’s Half Acre, NZ Comedy Festival show Hand To God, created puppets and performed in Silo Theatre’s Peter and the Wolf and Nightsong’s A Stab In The Dark.

With Trick of the Light Theatre he has designed puppets for The Road That Wasn’t There, The Devil’s Half-Acre, Tröll and The Griegol.