Ronnie Burkett (born June 10, 1957 in Lethbridge, Alberta) is a Canadian puppeteer, best known for his original theatrical plays for adults, performed with marionettes. Events 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Lethbridge (ˈlɛθbrɨdʒ is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada and the largest city in Southern Alberta. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object — a Puppet — in real time to create the illusion of life Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one A marionette is a Puppet controlled from above using strings a marionette's puppeteer is called a manipulator. He was the puppeteer for Ralph on the TV Ontario series Harriet's Magic Hats during seasons 3 & 4. TVOntario, often referred to only as TVO, ( Call signs CICA, CICE, CICO) is a publicly-funded educational English language Harriet's Magic Hats was a TV series created by ACCESS TV which aired on Alberta ACCESS TV and TVOntario from 1980 - 1986.
After winning a regional Emmy Award in 1979 for the puppets in "Cinderrabbit" on PBS in the US, Burkett formed his own theatre company in Alberta in 1986. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the His early works included Fool's Edge, Virtue Falls, The Punch Club and Awful Manors. In 1994, his work Tinka's New Dress was his international breakthrough, winning two Dora Awards, four Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards and a special citation from the Obie Awards. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) The Dora Mavor Moore Award (also known as the Dora Award) is a Canadian award presented annually by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts which honours The Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award (also known as the Sterling Award) is a local Edmonton Alberta award presented annually which honours excellence in theatre The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards bestowed by The Village Voice newspaper to Off-Broadway Theater Performed internationally, Tinka's New Dress was the first part of a trilogy which continued with Street of Blood in 1999 and Happy in 2000. A trilogy is a set of three works of art usually Literature, Film, or Video games, that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or three 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. He also won a Chalmers Award in 1996 for Old Friends, a piece commissioned by the Manitoba theatre for young people.
His work, Provenance, was performed for the first time in October 2003, premiering at Theatre Network in Edmonton. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. In November 2007, he finished touring his most recent show, 10 Days on Earth, that premiered at CanStage in Toronto in April 2006. The Canadian Stage Company is the largest contemporary theatre company in Canada.
Burkett writes his own scripts. Appearing onstage throughout each performance, he manipulates and is the voice of every character, from newborn ducks to dying mothers, Christ and Satan and everything in between. His shows explore the full spectrum of what it means to be human, hurt, hungry; an artist, a child, a lover. He has earned the respect of the international theater community.
Openly gay, Burkett lives in Toronto with his partner, jazz singer John Alcorn. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario John Alcorn is a Canadian Jazz singer Born in Toronto Ontario and raised in Trinidad, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
External links
- Review of Provenance, The Globe and Mail, January 3, 2004. The Globe and Mail is a Canadian English language nationally distributed Newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again "
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