Marcus Clarke FRSA Teaching CV email marcus@handsuppuppets.com Arts Award Adviser. CRB Checked GCSE O Level in English, Economics, History, Art.  GCSE A Level in Art. My Education. Early Career, Training and Teaching Information. 1972 to 1974 West Bridgford Comprehensive School. Day release for two years to West Bridgford College of FE to Study Electrical Engineering. Attained equivalent of early stages of ONC Electrical Engineering. 1974 1978 Nottingham Playhouse and Nottingham Theatre Royal Stage Electrician and Follow Spot Operator. 1977 3yr Graphic and Fashion Design Vocational course at West Nottinghamshire College, then Mansfield College of Art. I completed the first year only, (pull of the Theatre,) gaining these qualifications. GCSE O Level in English, Economics, History, Art.  GCSE A Level in Art. 1978 to 1979 Theatre Grand Theatre Wolverhampton Deputy Chief Electrician                      1980 to 1982 Fort Regent Theatre and Entertainment Complex Jersey CI. Deputy Chief Theatre and Concert Stage Technician. West End Theatre Stage Management Career 1982 to 1983 Song and Dance the Musical Palace Theatre Shaftsbury Avenue London W1 Technical assistant stage manager with special responsibility for Computer controlled projected scenery. Programmer and operator. 1983 Marilyn The Musical at the Royal Adelphi Theatre the Strand London W1 Technical Assistant Stage Manager with special responsibility for Computer controlled projected scenery. Computer programmer and operator. 1983 to 1985 Little Shop of Horrors the Musical Comedy Theatre London W1 Technical assistant Stage Manager with special responsibility for the Puppet Plant Audrey 2. Became Understudy and Puppeteer of Audrey 2. Film and TV. Training and Teaching 1983 Dreamchild Feature Film Elstree Studios Production Runner with special responsibility for Jim Hensons’ Puppets. 1985 to 1986 Little Shop of Horrors Feature Film Pinewood Studios Principal Puppeteer. 1986 to 1988 Private regular tuition in Puppetry, character creation and performance from Puppeteer, TV and Film Producer and Director, Brian Henson. Parliament Hill, Hampstead London. 1987 Successfully auditioned for and Completed Jim Hensons Puppeteering for Television Workshop. Downshire Hill Hampstead London. 1987 to 1988 Puppeteer to Jim Henson Productions The Storyteller The Monster Maker EFL (English as a Foreign Language became the Hoobs) 1988 Cat and Dog Kids TV Series. Anne Wood’s RagDoll Productions and Citv. Puppeteer. 1988 Hotdog Kids TV Series for Citv Thames TV Devised Series, designed and made Puppets and was Puppeteer to Hotdog himself. 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit Puppeteer and Object Manipulator. 1989 Founded Hands Up Puppets with Helena Smee relocated to Nottingham. Created, made and performed, over sixty Puppets for Television. Devised many TV Series and credited and un-credited Scriptwriter for many of them also. This work continues today. Please see separate CV. http://www.handsuppuppets.com Puppetry Teaching CV Several of the UK’s Leading TV Puppeteers including sisters Helena and Kath Smee have been trained by Marcus Clarke. Others have had an early start and leg up. 1995 Eo Telefis Spiddal, Galway, Eire Devised and ran a training course to teach Gaelic Speakers to Puppeteer and Produce their own Award winning Gaelic Children’s Puppet TV Series. 1997 Medialab Paris, Rue de la President Kennedy,Paris. I was Trained in Clovis 2 Real Time Performance animation system. 1997 to 1998 Medialab Studio LA Burbank, California USA Auditioned and trained twenty performers to Operate and Perform Clovis digital real time performance animation system and to then mentored students to perform it in Fox Studio Pilot TV Series. Venus on the Hardrive. 1998 Sony Digital Imaging Tokyo Japan Trained Traditional Kabuki Performers to Operate and Perform Clovis digital real time performance animation system. 2008 Rufford Abbey Nottinghamshire Puppeteering for TV 1 day Workshop. Students from Redhill Secondary School 2008 Dec Middlesex University Scriptwriting for Kids TV Lunchtime Lecture. 2009 Jan-March Clayfields House Puppeteering Course. Taught young people to Puppeteer and Film Making Skills and then made an award winning film with them. 2009 Jan Clarendon New College Nottingham Combined 1 day TV Puppetry Lecture and TV Puppeteering Workshop. 2009 Feb Rufford Abbey Nottinghamshire Combined 1 day TV Puppetry Lecture and TV Puppeteering Workshop for Adults. 2009 Feb Loughborough University Combined 1 day TV Puppetry Lecture and TV Puppeteering Workshop for Adults. 2009 March Bath TV Puppetry Combined 1 day TV Puppetry Lecture and TV Puppeteering Workshop for Adults. 2009 March University of Derby. Combined 1 day TV Puppetry Lecture and TV Puppeteering Workshop. 2009 March Whatton Village Youth Group, Rushcliffe. Inspirational talk and TV Puppetry lecture. 2009 March-June  Morvern Park Primary School Creative Partnerships Project. Taught every year to Puppeteer and made a short Film with them and their Puppets. 2009 July Buxton Puppet Festival TV Puppetry Lecture 2009 Nov Bredon Hill Middle School A Design Technology Day. Taught 160 year 6 students to make a TV Puppet Shark. 2009 Nov All Saints Church Stockton on Tees. 1 day TV Puppeteering Workshop. 2010 Jan-May Murray Park Secondary School Derby. Creative Partnerships Project. Taught yrs 7,8,9 to make Puppets and Puppeteer them for the Screen. Each Student making a Short Puppet Performance based Film. Also Mask Making and Object manipulation to Yr9 with again each student making a short Film. 2010 Feb-April Maplewell Hall School Leicestershire Creative Partnerships Project. Taught yrs 9 to make Puppets and Puppeteer them for the Screen. Each Student making a Short Puppet Performance based Film. 2010 March Rufford Abbey Nottinghamshire. I day Puppet Making for TV Workshop 2010 May Rufford Abbey Nottinghamshire. I day Puppet Making for TV Workshop 2010 30th July Buxton Puppet Festival, University of Derby Dome Buxton. Taught adults to make Puppets and to Puppeteer them for the Screen. Making a short Film. 2010 Nov Loughborough University Combined TV Puppeteering Workshop for Adults. (Undergraduates) 2011 Warwick Prep School. Puppetry for the Screen. Sock Puppet making and Puppeteering Workshop. 2011 Montgomeryshire Youth Theatre 2012 Skegby Girl Guides 2012 Farlow CofE Primary 2012 St. Pauls and St. Mary's CofE Primary, Prescot, Liverpool. Additional information. My Spotlight Performance CV http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/0697-6725-0688 My online Performance CV http://www.handsuppuppets.com/html/CV.html About my Partnership work with Hands Up Puppets is here http://www.handsuppuppets.com/html/about.html My Educational Services online page is here http://www.handsuppuppets.com/html/Puppetry_Arts_Education.html Professional Memberships Fellow of the Royal Society of Artists, Member of Bafta, Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild of Great Britain, British Equity Unima, PUK, I am a Family man. Married  with two young Boys who keep me very active. BAFTA Nominated in 2004 Pre-School Live Action for PJ’s Storytime Recipient of two Individual Arts Council England Grants for the Arts.