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Our People

Puppet Vision is a Charitable Trust created in 1990 to "Share good wholesome family and community values with children and adults alike through live puppetry and the audio video media."

Our Board of Directors meets regularly to monitor progress and encourage growth in all the various aspects of the Trust including:
Live puppetry - developing new shows, characters and equipment.
Puppet character creation, development and manufacture.
Script writing and DVD production.

Dan Martin (Dan the Puppet Man) is a ventriloquist and has had a passion for kids and puppetry since his mid teens, and has been making and manipulating puppets and training puppeteers for over 40 years.

Chris Benham (Radar) has manipulated puppets and trained puppeteers for over 20 years.

Athol Newson - (Minister of Finance) maintains the budget and keeps us in the black.