Philip Mitchell

Philip Mitchell is an award winning director and puppeteer with more than two decades of experience working in puppetry and visual theatre in Australia. He has been artistic director of Spare Parts Puppet Theatre for over 14 years. His work explores the point at which the visual arts meets the performing arts and new directions in puppetry development. Mr Mitchell is committed to nurturing new artistic leaders in puppetry through Australia’s only tertiary education unit at WAAPA and training programs like FirstHand.