Aya Nakamura

Aya Nakamura’s passion for puppetry developed while she was studying theatre design in London. Since then she has studied further at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Insititut International de la Marionnette (France) under acclaimed German Puppeteer, Ilka Schonbein.

She is an associate artist of Rouge28 Theatre, where she created both the award winning Urashima Taro and Kwaidan alongside long-term collabrator Paul Piris. Recently she was awarded Best Puppeteer at the International Puppet and Animation Festival for Adutls in Warsaw 2017.

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