Elephant Rock by Moving Parts Arts for Hartleypool Waterfront Festival
"Charlie Comet " for Nottingham Puppetry Festival
comissioned by Flying Carpet Festival
Elephant Rock by Moving Parts Arts for Hartleypool Waterfront Festival
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THEATRE MAKER
PUPPET BUILDER
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GALLERY
lead builder
in teams
CV HIGHLIGHTS
The Walls Have Eyes (Performer/Builder ), Jo Feijó, 2023
The Boy (Builder), Whitley Bay Carnival, 2023
Squid and the Sea (Performer), Tatwood Puppets, 2022
Introduction to Puppetry (Facilitator), East 15 Acting School,2022
Elephant Rock (Maker/Performer), Moving Parts Arts, 2022
Please Come Talk to Me (Creator/Performer/Writer), Jo Feijó ,2022
You'll know when it's time, Baubo Theatre, 2022
Douane (Artistic Team/Maker/Writer), Tás de Sable and UNIMA (France), 2021
Tine Rising (Artistic Team/Maker/Facilitator), Newcastle puppetry Festival, 2021
Charlie Comet (Creator and Maker), Nottingham Puppetry Festival,2021
Happy Prince (Maker/Puppetry Director), Packpack Theatre, 2021
Grotesque Bodies (Performer/Writer), Baubo Theatre, 2020
Union: Northern School of Creativity and Activism, 2019
Associate artist (Freelance Making assistant), Thingumajig Theatre,2019/Present
I am a man now! (Creator/Designer/Performer), Fresh NorthEast, 2019
Curious Beasts (Performer), Life and Limb Puppets, 2019
Ondine (Maker,Performer), Yojiro Ichikawa, 2018
Our Domestic Insurrection Circus (Performer), Bread and Puppet Theatre (USA), 2017
The Gates of Unfinished Life (Performer), Bread and Puppet Theatre (USA), 2017
Sea of Milk (Maker, Performer), Nyoman Sedana, 2017
PROJECTS
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ABOUT
Jo Feijó (He/she) is an Theatre Maker from Portugal working with all things puppetry.
With a heavy focus on visual language and the use of colour, shape and action to create narrative, jo’s work explores archetypical stories, working from a visual storytelling perspective to creating theatre for all.
Jo's work has been seen across different festivals including Newcastle Puppetry Festival, Nottingham puppetry festival, beverly puppetry festival, Byker Arts Festival, saltburn folk festival, Hartlepool Waterfront, fmtm charlesville-Mezieres (france), Flying Carpet Festival (Turkey) and Scene+Heard Festival (Ireland).
“Jo is a wonderful puppet maker and theatre designer with a keen and incisive understanding of visual theatre and non verbal performance styles. I am always happy to see what Jo has been working on as it always surprises with its relevance, depth and humility."
—William Steele - co founder of newcastle puppetry festival and life and limb puppets