Tobi Poster-Su
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Biography
Tobi Poster-Su is a UK-based scholar theatremaker and puppeteer specialising in collaborative, crossdisciplinarity work. They are the Subject Leader for MA Puppetry at Wimbledon College of Arts.
Tobi is currently undertaking an AHRC-funded PhD (Towards a Critical Puppetry: Racialisation and Material Performance in the Twenty-First Century) at Queen Mary University of London. They have published in Critical Stages, Theatre Journal, and Applied Theatre Research, presented at ATHE, IFTR, TaPRA, ASTR and the Prague Quadrennial, and are co-convener of the TaPRA Bodies and Performance working group.
As co-artistic director of Wattle and Daub, Tobi has co-created and performed in Chang and Eng and Me (and Me) (Chinese Arts Now Festival, Mayfest), The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak (Wilton’s Music Hall, New Diorama, Bristol Festival of Puppetry) and Triptych (Mayfest, Pleasance Islington). They have worked as a puppetry director and puppeteer on shows including Tom Morris’s A Christmas Carol (Bristol Old Vic) and Heidi: A Goat’s Tale (the egg) and RSC and Improbable’s My Neighbour Totoro (the Barbican).
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