Basil Milovsoroff (1906-1992) was an accomplished Russian-American puppeteer. A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object — a Puppet — in real time to create the illusion of life He was born in Siberia, close to the Mongolian border and emigrated to the United States when he was very young. He received a BS and Masters degrees from the Oberlin College, and in 1957 he joined the Department of Russian Studies at Dartmouth College. Oberlin College is a private Liberal arts college in Oberlin Ohio. Dartmouth College ( is a private, Coeducational University located in Hanover, New Hampshire, U
In 1931 he married Georgia Taylor and together started The Folktale Puppet Theatre. He was widely recognized as one of the best puppeteers in the United States, and in 1983 he received the President's Award of the of the Puppeteers of America (a year before Frank Oz received it) http://www.puppeteers.org/awardshistory.html
His puppets can be best described as surrealist compositions of pieces of wood that preserved their original shapes, with their voices having a resemblance to the sounds of the forest.
References
- Wallace, Lea. "In Memory of Basil Milovsoroff", Puppetry Journal, Fall 1993, vol. 45, No. 1, as cited by "Towards the Future of Puppetry: The Work of Basil Milovsoroff" by Julie Morrison, University of Connecticut 1997.
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