{"id":220395,"date":"2022-06-03T13:08:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T05:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonderful-indigo-elk.62-72-47-242.cpanel.site\/?p=220395"},"modified":"2022-06-03T13:12:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T05:12:45","slug":"meet-kayla-the-pinoy-puppet-designer-who-helped-bring-spirited-away-to-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/?p=220395","title":{"rendered":"Meet Kayla: The Pinoy Puppet Designer Who Helped Bring &#8216;Spirited Away\u2019 To Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikayla \u201cKayla\u201d Teodoro is a puppet, scenic, and costume designer and maker from the Philippines. 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Teodoro (@mikayla.design)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>She worked on the \u2018very angry Yubaba\u2019 head, which was designed by Toby Oli\u00e9, the show\u2019s puppet designer and director. Kyla shared that she did the scrimming, polycarving of its back, creating handles, creating the tongue base and working on its mechanism, and creating the teeth base.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First look: Spirited Away on stage<\/p>\n<p>Adapting the limitless imagination of Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s iconic animation for the stage was both a monumental joy &amp; challenge.<\/p>\n<p>More images in my online gallery: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rLGZRBzamN\">https:\/\/t.co\/rLGZRBzamN<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E5%8D%83%E3%81%A8%E5%8D%83%E5%B0%8B%E3%81%AE%E7%A5%9E%E9%9A%A0%E3%81%97?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u5343\u3068\u5343\u5c0b\u306e\u795e\u96a0\u3057<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpiritedAway?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SpiritedAway<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/05Dyf3H1Qc\">pic.twitter.com\/05Dyf3H1Qc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Toby Oli\u00e9 (@TobyOlie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TobyOlie\/status\/1499520946780217348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Spirited Away\u2019 premiered on the world stage on March 2 this year at the Imperial Theater in Tokyo and will be streamed live on the Hulu channel in July.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this is not Kayla\u2019s first gig at creating puppets for theater productions. In 2019, she also designed the penguin puppets for \u2018Madagascar: A Musical Adventure.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1-Kayla-Pinoy-Puppet-Designer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"419\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175573\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She proudly shared that the puppets were made from local Filipino materials, but assured us that the fabric patterns were prints made from their research on the Madagascar culture.<\/p>\n<p>Kayla Teodoro graduated with a degree in Interior Design from the University of the Philippines Diliman, and with a master\u2019s at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in the United Kingdom, where she is currently based.<\/p>\n<p>She is the artistic director and co-founder of Puppet Theater Manila\u2014a puppet company that aims to tell Filipino stories, train Filipino puppeteers, and use Filipino indigenous materials.<\/p>\n<p>She created \u2018Clara\u2019 the Carabao, and the main character for \u2018The Boy and the Butanding,\u2019 a production about Filipino family dynamics that are currently being developed by Puppet Theater Manila. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2-Kayla-Pinoy-Puppet-Designer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"417\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175574\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/3-Kayla-Pinoy-Puppet-Designer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"417\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175575\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She also reimagined the classic Filipino superhero \u2018Darna\u2019 as a \u201cpre-teen navigating life as she grows up and saves the world\u201d for Aardman Academy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/4-Kayla-Pinoy-Puppet-Designer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"865\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kyla has dedicated her life to the pursuit of introducing puppetry to the Philippines as \u201cwe are the only country in Southeast Asia without an ancient form of puppetry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Together with Puppet Theater Manila, Kyla aims to slowly introduce the art form through the production of original works as well as through collaboration with various theater companies to integrate puppetry into their performances.<\/p>\n<p>Source: www.mikaylart.com, www.instagram.com\/tobyolie\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Know Kyla, the woman behind some of the most well-known puppet plays in the Philippines and around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19265],"tags":[7863],"class_list":["post-220395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-great-filipino-story","tag-social"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}