Designer Profile: Julie Taymor
- American director of theatre opera and film.
-earned two tony awards out of four nominations alongside the drama desk for outstanding costume design, an Emmy award and Academy award.
-Widely known for directing the stage musical, the Lion King.
-film work... Frida (2002/0 and titus ( 1999).
-Worked on the Tempest, 2010,William Shakespeare adaptation.
-Puppetry is just one of her talents.
-Spiderman: turn off the dark.
The New York Times described her as being one of the most innovative theatrical directors and designers. And that she is known for her ability to transform theatrical productions through the use of masks and puppetry.This is a skill that she learnt from traveling to Japan to study pre-bunraku puppetry, to learn about the experimental methods of Japenese puppetry and visual orientated theatre.Personally, i really like the work of Taymor's in the tempest as it is very detailed and heavily textured fabrics which are very similar to that of colleen Atwood's. I also like the heavily carved and authentic puppetry/masks and costumes used in the lion king as they use authentic fabrics but original interpretations of the characters. As they do not create a hugely animal orientated features,e.g fur,generic characteristics,animal prints.
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