Rowan Magee (Puppeteer)

Rowan Magee is a puppeteer, designer, and educator living in Brooklyn, NY. He is interested in the expression of natural materials, and the physics of composite bodies. He has performed on international tours with Phantom Limb Company, Robin Frohardt, Nick Lehane, and Dan Hurlin, in New York for Chris Green, Lake Simons, Sachiyo Takahashi, Spencer Lott, at the Metropolitan Opera, Japan Society, the Guggenheim, BAM Harvey, and on Broadway in Angels in America and Life of Pi. In 2019, Rowan operated the titular reference puppet for the film Clifford the Big Red Dog. He has designed and fabricated puppets for New York Theater Workshop, MCC Theater, The Dalton School, St Mark's School, and Lincoln Center Education. Rowan is a board member for the Puppetry Guild of Greater New York, and the co-founder of the Object Movement Festival, a winter residency and spring showcase of experimental puppet artists in NYC.