Chris Topper
Puppeteer, Puppet & Costume Character Designer and Builder
75 Barrows Green Lane
Widnes
Cheshire,
WA8 3JH
United kingdom
Tel: 0151 424 8692
Email: chris@christopperpuppets.co.uk
Website www.christopperpuppets.co.uk
Chris Topper has been a professional puppet and costume character designer, builder and performer for over 20 years. He has worked principally in creating and presenting his own productions including 'The Three Little Pigs', 'Red Riding Hood’, 'Puss in Boots, 'Jack Rabbit and the Beanstalk' and 'The Madcap Monkeys'. All of his shows feature colourful hand puppet animal characters in pantomime style stories. Several of his puppet stories feature on the top selling CD/DVD ‘My First Party Album’ (V2tv).
Performing the shows has taken Chris into theatres, Schools and events all over the United Kingdom. He has performed at several Festivals of British Puppetry and in 2000 at the National Millennium Exhibition at the Dome.
Chris has also made and performed puppets for a number of Video/television productions including:-
2007 ‘Triangle man’ (Podia media) 2007 Puppet maker and performer
2006 ‘Adventures of Marco and Marina’ TV/dvd (Taylor-Livesey prod.) Puppet maker and performer
2006 The Sooty Show (JB Entertainment/HIT ent.), Puppet maker
2006 ‘My First Party Album’ DVD puppet maker-performer/writer (V2tv)
2006 ‘The Movie Zone’ (Monkey kingdom for Channel4) Puppeteer/maker
2004 Coxon’s Cooking College (Carlton TV) Puppeteer
2003 Puppets from Paintings, The Walker art gallery, Liverpool, puppet maker
2002 ‘Secret Of The Lost Time Capsule'(Pete Ellison prod.) Creature builder
1996 ‘The Humptees' (CTTV) Puppet maker/performer
1996 ‘Friday Going Live!'- sketch contributor (BBCtv)
1995 ‘Wham Bam, Strawberry Jam' (BBCtv)
1995 Puppet maker and performer