About Jon

Jon Coddington studied at Toi Whakaari (New Zealand Drama School) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Performance Design. He promotes himself as a theatre designer and collaborator, illustrator, animator and sculptor, and has been primarily working as a puppeteer and puppet maker for 13 years. Highlights include sell-out international Fringe Festival hit Puppet Fiction, a marionette homage to the movie Pulp Fiction, and the manipulation and making of puppets for Fat Freddy's Drop's music videos 'Clean The House' and 'Special Edition', as well as performing on stage with Coldplay.

He has worked in screen puppetry with training by Muppeteer Peter Linz at Whoa Studios in Auckland producing the series 'Custards World' for TVNZ/HeiHei, created puppets and performed in Silo theatre's 'Peter and the Wolf', Indian Ink’s 'Paradise: Or the Impermanence of Ice Cream’, and Auckland Theatre Company's 'Peter Pan'.

When he's not working he likes to unwind by going to shows, watching people make things on YouTube, or playing video games.

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