About Unraku

Founded in 2008, Unraku is a puppetry studio in Toronto, Canada that specializes in designing, building and performing puppet characters for film, television, theatre and the web. We're a team of professional multi-disciplinary artists drawn together from the worlds of animation, illustration, improv, film, theatre and puppetry. We draw on each other’s diverse skills to produce work that blends the latest in state-of-the-art techniques with good, old fashioned, hand-crafted puppetry.

Our Team

Design & Build

From concept to creation, we create characters and build the worlds that they inhabit. Our team of multidisciplinary artists can create every type of puppet imaginable, from simple sock puppets to mechanically complex, fully jointed characters performed by multiple puppeteers.

Performance

Our experienced team of performers bring characters to life for audiences of all ages. We specialize in performing hand, rod and multi-person Bunraku puppets on film, television and theatre.