About Your Man's Puppets
Tommy Baker is a puppet theatre director, Puppet builder and performer. He also works as a freelance educator in puppetry skills.
Over the last fourteen years, Tommy has developed his own particular style, drawing from diverse influences in puppetry from all over the world such as marionette and rod puppets from Sweden and Germany, Bunkraku puppetry from Japan and also, many Irish Folk Legends.
Your Man's Puppets, the Production Company he founded in 2002, demonstrates Tommy's ongoing preoccupation with storytelling, humour and the intermingling of fantasy with realism.
Over the last fourteen years, Tommy has developed his own particular style, drawing from diverse influences in puppetry from all over the world such as marionette and rod puppets from Sweden and Germany, Bunkraku puppetry from Japan and also, many Irish Folk Legends.
Your Man's Puppets, the Production Company he founded in 2002, demonstrates Tommy's ongoing preoccupation with storytelling, humour and the intermingling of fantasy with realism.
"Puppetry is one of the few art forms that combines sculpture, drama, painting, music, movement and the excitement of a live production, where anything can happen."
His productions appeal to both young and old and are both humorous and thought-provoking at the same time.
In comparison with other European traditions, Irish puppet theatre is a young and evolving artistic discipline. Tommy's constant experimentation with new ideas is pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with puppet theatre. As such, he is helping to develop a uniquely Irish tradition of puppet theatre which can hold its own with the finest competitors on the international stage.
Tommy's work has received major support from the Arts Council of Ireland, Galway County Council, the Galway County Heritage Forum, the GrassRoots Environment Education Network, the People and Nature Project, and the Western Region Zebra Mussel Control Initiative.