Alessandro Napoli Editor & Author

John McCormick, theater historian and founder of the Drama Department of Trinity College Dublin, has been a practicing puppeteer since the 1950s. His books include studies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and British theater, popular puppetry in nineteenth-century Europe, and the Victorian marionette theater. Alfonso Cipolla, lecturer at the University of Turin and theater critic, has published extensively on puppet theatre. Alessandro Napoli, a teacher and author of a major study of the Catanian puppet theatre, belongs to a puppet family.