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Pamella
O'Connor has been a professional theatre artist for 28 years.
She has produced, directed and performed traditional as well
as puppet theatre. Trained as an actor first, she has performed
at several regional theatres including Indiana
Repertory, Arkansas
Repertory, and the Alliance
Theatre in Atlanta, working with such noted directors
as Libby Appel of Oregon
Shakespeare and Adrian Hall of the Alley
Theatre in Houston.
She moved
on to directing professionally in Atlanta and then producing
large scale musicals. But in 1984, the direction of her professional
life changed when she was asked to travel to Europe with Janie
Geiser's Obie and UNIMA
(the world puppetry organization) award winning Jottay Theatre.
For 6 years she traveled with the troupe throughout the United
States and Europe performing original puppet theatre pieces
for adult audiences.
In 1996, she moved to Asheville
with the sole intent of creating new works for puppet theatre.
Her first ventures were family shows: Rapunzel
and Vasalisa!
The Russian Cinderella. Both of these have become juried selections
of the Piccolo Spoleto Theatre Series and continue to tour
to schools, libraries and festivals around the country. "Rapunzel"
enjoyed a week of performances at The Kennedy Center, Washington,
D.C. in October, '04. Her latest work, "The Anatomy of
Melancholy" is designed for adult audiences. It premiered
in August, '03 and appeared at the Center for Puppetry Arts
in Atlanta April 15-17, '05.
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