Professional puppets,
		Film and TV work.

Internationally renowned Puppet Master Mel Myland and his team of creative artists at The Puppet Workshop will custom build any puppet or puppet related prop that you require.

We can design and build Puppets for you or work to your own designs, vacuum forming and mould making facilities available.

Using traditional Carved Wood, Paper, Foam, P.V.C., Latex, Fiberglas, Rubber or Textile we can make you anything from a fairy to a monster, from Norman Normal to an Atrocious Alien.

Whatever character you desire we can build it as a marionette with strings, a hand, rod shadow or finger puppet. Or even as a 4 meter high giant puppet, ventriloquist doll or automata.

Mel can advise you what kind of puppet would best suit your needs and your budget.

The Puppet Workshop also offers a complete puppet research centre relying on its own Museum of Puppets (THE WISH TOWER PUPPET MUSEUM - EASTBOURNE) and our extensive puppet related library. Should you need to know which puppets were used at any specific time in history or in any part of the world ?

Brief history of Mel Myland & his Puppet Workshop

1985
'The History of Chocolate' a Puppet Musical; rod puppets, string puppets & trick marionettes, for Switzerland's biggest Chocolate Factory.
Production and performance Mel Myland & Hansueli Trueb

1986
Appointment by Art Museum Solothurn, Switzerland reconstruction of the puppet theatre version of 'La Boite a JouJoux' a ballet by Claude Debussy. Puppet design by Swiss artist Otto Morach in 1918.
Reproduction and performance Mel Myland & Lothar Drack

1989
Design and production of 42 string puppets and scenery for 'The Nutcracker'; for Theater Produktion Born Zürich.

1991- 93
Production of Puppets for Marionettes de Genévè for the following shows:

• 'Montagne de Riz;' puppet designed by Mioara Buescu, Romania
• 'Noah's Bath'; written and directed by Eric Bass, Sandglass Theatre, Vermont, USA
• 'Coppelia'; directed by Josef Krofta, Drak Prague.

1992
Commission from Zürich Puppen Theater. Reconstruction of 'König Hirsch'
Puppet design, and play by Sophie Täuber - Arp, 1918
Puppet and scenery reconstruction Mel Myland & Sabine Gysin
Director Mel Myland

1995
'Die Fledermaus'; design and production of all puppets and scenery for Theater Produktion Born Zürich.

1996
'Ivanhoe' BBC Drama production: 2 medieval jousting horse puppets and performance as medieval puppeteer.

Hunchback of Notredame
carved hand puppets of the 3 main characters
to Disney's original drawings for promotion
of the new film.
The puppets are currently used for the live show of
'Hunchback of Notredame' in Disneyland Florida.

Fun Song Factory : animal hand puppets for childrens video.

Playdays : BBC filmed on The Puppet Workshop premises.

Humpty Dumpty and other puppets for Danish Television.

1997
Dancing and Dissecting Skeletons for Gerry Cottle's ' Circus of Horrors'.

Collectors Lot' : Channel 4 filmed Mel carving marionettes and performing.

The Biggest Punch & Judy Show in the World : construction and performance ( Punch 3.5meter tall ) staged at our The Wish Tower Puppet Museum, Eastbourne U.K.

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor' : hand carved puppets for Peter Charlton.

1998
15 life size string puppets comissioned by stylist Jane How for Martin Margiella fashion show in La Grande Arch at Paris Fashion Show 1998

1999
Pinocchio II (film working title) making of puppets and performance for the Carousel Picture Company in Luxembourg.