Shona Reppe

Shona Reppe studied Theatre, History of Art and English at Glasgow University (graduated ’91) and Stage Design at the Welsh College of Drama in Cardiff (1992) before establishing Shona Reppe Puppets in 1996 (now simply Shona Reppe). She has performed extensively all over the world including US, Canada, Japan, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Australia, Estonia, Slovenia, Poland and Israel with her shows Cinderella (2002 – present), The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean (2011 – present), Potato Needs a Bath (2008 – present), Olga Volt (2007) and Magic Sho (2015). She has won numerous awards for her work including a Total Theatre  Award 2002, Ipay’s Victory Award Montreal 2003, a Tron Award for best childrens production 2003 and a TMA (Theatre UK) Award for best childrens theatre show 2012. Collaborative and design work includes designing the show White in 2011 with Andy Manley and Catherine Wheels which has won numerous awards including a CAT Award for Design 2011. HUFF, an art installation for children based on The Three Little Pigs – a collaboration with Andy Manley (produced by Catherine Wheels Theatre Company) that opened at The National Galleries of Scotland in September 2013 and won a Herald Angel and a Critics Award for Theatre Award 2014. In December 2016 she co-created and designed Black Beauty with Andy Manley and Andy Cannon which was produced by Red Bridge Arts/Traverse Theatre. In May 2018 she worked on BABA YAGA a collaboration between Windmill Theatre and Chrstine Johnson commissioned by Imaginate. This year she returned to France to create Atlantis Banal: Beneath the Surface with Charlot Lemoine of Velo Theatre that willl premiered in Scotland in Autumn 2019. Shona lives in Inverkeithing, Scotland, and is married with 2 children, a dog called Sushi and a cat called Bill (and 10 stick insects).