Barbara Pollitt has an extensive career in New York theatre as a puppeteer, mask maker, performer and director. She has performed with Julie Taymour, and with Mabou Mines, including Lee Breuer’s “Epidog”, for which she won an Obie award. She directed and designed the highly acclaimed Haydn opera “Philemon and Baucis” for the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the Kaufman Theater in New York. She also designed puppets for Theaterworks’ “Lion King of Mali” which toured nationally. Ms Pollitt’s mask and puppet work was seen on Broadway in George C. Wolfe’s “Tempest” (American Theater Wing nominations for mask design) and for Mr. Wolfe’s “Jelly’s Last Jam.” Her design work has been exhibited at Lincoln Center and at other venues in New York.
