Peter Schumann
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Peter Schumann (b. 1934) is the founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater. Born in Silesia, he was a sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961. In 1963 he founded Bread & Puppet in New York City, and in 1970 moved it to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, where it still performs.
Books by Peter Schumann:
Bread & Puppet: Green Man. 1996.
The old art of puppetry in the new world order. 1993.
Bread: A lecture to art students at SUNY/Purchase, New York. 1987, reprint 1994.