Майкл Карри
Дизайнер кукол (KÀ, LOVE)
Puppet Designer Michael Curry is one of the world's leading production designers. He works widely in both conceptual and technical development with the foremost entertainment companies such as the Metropolitan Opera, London's Royal National Theatre, Disney Theatrical Productions, LA Opera, and Universal Pictures.
Michael has been the recipient of many prestigious awards from his peers, including several awards for his puppet and costume work on Broadway, Olympic ceremonies, and his continuing innovations in the fields of visual effects and puppetry design. He owns and operates Michael Curry Design Inc, which designs and creates live-performance oriented tri-dimensional characters and productions, such as those seen by world-wide audiences in the 1996 and 2002 Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, Super Bowl 2000, and New York City's epoch 2000 millennium event.
He has collaborated with Julie Taymor on many stage and opera productions. Among his numerous awards, he received the 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Puppet Design in recognition of his work for Taymor on The Lion King.
Michael first worked with Cirque du Soleil on KÀ, written and directed by Robert Lepage and says about his experience :"I've really enjoyed the process by which they allow the artists to get everything they want to get out of their particular discipline," he says. "They are completely patient and gracious about their support for the arts." He also collaborated on LOVE, for which he designed a succession of large-scale "puppets" that resonate with key events in the Beatles' lives or represent characters in their songs.
Since then Michael has worked on an opera at the Paris Opera directed by Robert Lepage, an opera at La Scala, Milan, directed by William Friedkin, and a Broadway production of Spider Man with music by Bono and Edge, directed by Julie Taymor.
“In Wintuk, the body puppets, representing the perfect fusion of form and function, were designed to help the acrobats truly feel the animals they embody,” explains the puppet designer.
Michael Curry was born in 1958 in Oregon.