Ronnie Burkett Net Worth
Ronnie Burkett Net Worth is
$11 Million
Ronnie Burkett Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Ronnie Burkett (born June 10, 1957) is a Canadian puppeteer, best known for his original theatrical plays for adults, performed with marionettes. Burkett, who hails from Lethbridge, was the puppeteer for Ralph on the TV Ontario series Harriet's Magic Hats during seasons three and four.After winning a regional Emmy Award in 1979 for the puppets in "Cinderrabbit" on PBS in the US, Burkett formed his own theatre company in Alberta in 1986. His early works included Fool's Edge, Virtue Falls, The Punch Club and Awful Manors. In 1994, his work Tinka's New Dress was his international breakthrough, winning two Dora Awards, four Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards and a special citation from the Obie Awards. Performed internationally, Tinka's New Dress was the first part of a trilogy which continued with Street of Blood in 1999 and Happy in 2000. He also won a Chalmers Award in 1996 for Old Friends, a piece commissioned by the Manitoba Theatre for Young People. In 2009, Burkett received the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre for design.His work, Provenance, was performed for the first time in October 2003, premiering at Theatre Network in Edmonton. In November 2007, he finished touring his show 10 Days on Earth that premiered at CanStage in Toronto in April 2006. In October 2008, he premiered his quasi-autobiographical show, Billy Twinkle: Requiem for a Golden Boy, at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton; the show toured several cities in Canada, the UK, and Australia through late 2009. In 2011-12, he did an extensive Canadian tour of his new play, an apocalyptic comedy, Penny Plain. His latest work, The Daisy Theatre, inspired by underground Czech marionette theatre, is part improvisation and part cabaret and includes short vignettes penned by other Canadian playwrights.Burkett usually writes his own scripts. Appearing onstage throughout each performance, he manipulates and is the voice of every character, from newborn ducks to dying mothers, Christ and Satan and everything in between.Openly gay, Burkett lives in Toronto with his partner, jazz singer John Alcorn. | Full Name | Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada |
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| Date Of Birth | June 10, 1957 |
| Place Of Birth | Lethbridge, Canada |
| Profession | Actor |
| Awards | Obie Award for Special Citations |
| Movies | The Santa Claus Brothers |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [on the three key cast members of 'The Daisy Theatre'] I call them the Holy Trinity. Schnitzel, Edna and Esme are all one-third parts of me. Schnitzel is the innocent-hopeful-me that I can never show the world because I'm a big, tall, older man now. Edna is the Canadian-confused-hopeful version of me. And Esme is the bitter old queen-who's been on-the-road-for-too-many-years version of me. |
| 2 | [observation, 2013] For two decades I've been doing work that is pretty heavy, pretty dark and weighty in terms of text. I just need to lighten up and have some fun on the side. I wanted to go in front of an audience again and be sometimes political, sometimes dirty, sometimes cheeky. I wanted my laboratory back. |
| 3 | [on his audiences] I extend a hand to them, in effect saying if you breathe with me in the dark for a couple of hours, and let me control your breathing, I will try and make it worth your while. |
| 4 | For me, the true monsters have always been my own species. Right from the start I've always been interested in shrinking people down to take a closer look. |
| 5 | I am a good sponge. I watch what is going on around me and then I use it. |
| 6 | Some of my best crying was when witnessing incredible beauty, and my best laughter was in the most bizarre sadness. |
| 7 | I don't want my audience to be fat and pink and polite. I'm not a court jester for the rich. |
| 8 | My dad would pack up the car with my stage and my gear, and drive me around to those lucrative $50 gigs. It's only since my dad passed away a year ago that I realized he probably lost a lot of money on gas and hotel rooms and things, while I pocketed the $50 cheque, but that was the beginning of [my career]. |
| 9 | Puppetry is always thought of as for kids, and cute, little, soft, talking animals. And so I've spent the better part of two decades trying to wrest the form from that preconception. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | He is a marionette artist who has presented shows around the world, focusing on adult audiences. |
| 2 | He became interested in puppetry as a child, when he read a World Book Encyclopedia article about puppets. He had mentorships with veteran puppeteers, and took his own marionette shows on the road when he was 14. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Santa Claus Brothers | 2001 | TV Movie | Additional Voices (voice) |
| Cocotte minute | 1990 | TV Series voice |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puppet Rampage | 2008 | Documentary | Interviewee |
| Ronnie Burkett: A Line of Balance | 1992 | TV Movie | Himself (puppeteer) |
Known for movies
Puppet Rampage (2008)
as Interviewee
The Santa Claus Brothers (2001)
as Additional Voices
Cocotte minute (1990)
as Actor
Ronnie Burkett: A Line of Balance (1992)
as Himself (puppeteer)