Actor and Theatre artist

Carlos Becker

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Chilean actor Carlos Becker graduated from La Mancha – Escuela internacional del gesto y del imagen (International School of Drama, Santiago de Chile) and until now has worked regularly with 10 different theatre companies. In addition to classical theatre, he is very active in physical theatre, mask theatre, puppet theatre, commedia dell'arte, black theatre and as a theatre clown. 

​Trumpet playing as well as mask and puppet making complement his artistic work. Thus he has attended courses in the making and handling of puppets and marionettes with internationally renowned masters such as Stephen Mottram, Jean Michel D'Hopp, Jaime Lorca and Natasha Belova. 

Festival and theatre performances have taken him to many parts of Latin America and Europe, including with the successful rock and clown orchestra La Ciscu Margaret, the theatre company Viaje in movil, cuentos en escena or Compagnia Za-Zà. Carlos Becker currently lives in Switzerland, was working lately intensively on mask theatre in Italy (Commedia dell'arte) under the direction of Maestro Antonio Fava and co-directed La dernière assemblée des animaux in France. He also leads theatre courses in physical theatre on the HeuBühne (Atelier Theater Meilen).