Philip Millar’s Puppetvision

Formed in 1991, Puppetvision is the home of Philip Millar.

As Artistic Director of Puppetvision, Philip has produced a range of shows for Melbourne’s Fringe and Comedy Festivals including ‘Peta & the Whale’, ‘Tyrannosaurus sex’ and Fringe Award winners ‘Pure Puppet Palaver’ and ‘Tadpole’

Philip Millar is the former Associate Creative Director at Creature Technology Company, having been involved since the company’s inception in 2006 on projects such as ‘Walking with Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular’, ‘How To Train Your Dragon – The Arena Spectacular’, the Tony Award winning ‘King Kong’ and ‘Lady Liberty’ for Radio City Music Hall.

One of Australia’s leading puppet artists, Philip has over three decades of experience as a performer, designer, maker and director of puppetry for theatre, film and television.  Philip was a presenter at the 2015 Human Robotics Interaction Conference in Portland, USA. He co-authored ‘Sequence and Chance: Design and Control Methods for Entertainment Robots’ with E. Jochum and D. Nunez for the Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal.  Philip has presented workshops and seminars at all four Australian Puppetry and Animatronics Summits, at MIT’s Media Lab, at RMIT Design Hub, at the 2009 AGideas Design Conference in Melbourne and the 2016 IdeasOnDesign conference in Foshan, China. Philip is also a former editor of 'Australian Puppeteer' magazine.

Prior to working with CTC, Philip was Co-Artistic Director of Polyglot Puppet Theatre and has worked freelance on numerous stage and screen productions including the feature films ‘The Host’, ‘Charlotte’s Web’ and ‘Rogue’, the TV series ‘Farscape’ and ‘Pig’s Breakfast’ and the stage productions of ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and ‘The Hobbit’.

(Creature Technology Company images used with permission)