How did Pedro Ilgenfritz go from accounting to clowning? He talks to Voices producer and presenter Kadambari Raghukumar about his love for acting - and a growing theatre mask collection.

Pedro Ilgenfritz went from counting to clowning in his career and has never looked back since. While studying accounting as a 20-year-old in his hometown in Brazil, Florianopolis, Pedro discovered acting.

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In the early 90s, Pedro abandoned the account books for a role in a local theatre company. Since then the only counting he does these days is of his growing collection of theatre masks.

Pedro has collected nearly a hundred theatre masks over the past 15 years - from South America to Bali, to New Zealand.

Pedro recently became what he calls the kaitiaki of about 40 intricately carved wooden masks - a prized personal collection of one of New Zealand's' theatre stalwarts- William Farrimond.

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