ABOUT

It’s possible for me to have many different job titles. Here are a few: designer, director, consultant, theatre maker, artist, creative collaborator, specialist, puppeteer, puppet person, and a production manager once introduced me to the rest of the team as the “Puppet Overlord”… 

The things that underpin all of these are puppetry and using objects to create performance and tell stories. (I also work as a puppeteer in the more conventional performing sense of the word. You can find my showreel for that here.)

Training in puppetry at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, I’ve worked in a lot of different puppetry based roles and jobs since. I like to take all this experience, the circumstances of any project, and inspiration from other schools of thought and practicality, to create considered, ergonomic, and holistic puppetry rooted ideas. It’s about finding the right language or tools to complement and enhance everything else, do the right job and tell the best story.

The services and roles I end up providing during this can include:

  • design
  • conceptualisation
  • puppet making and fabrication
  • build supervision
  • devising
  • direction
  • dramaturgy
  • consultancy
  • coaching and training
  • or – more often than not – a mix of all of these.

In 2016 I was the inaugural recipient of the Sally Goldsworthy Bursary Award at Discover Story Centre, Stratford, and I was a finalist for the  Jerwood Live Arts Fund in 2020.

To date, I’ve been worked on projects for theatre, television, opera, dance, circus, cabaret, clowning, storytelling, theme parks, music videos, advertising, digital media, charity campaigns, scientific research and training, concerts, live events and even an Olympic opening ceremony, and within that have delighted in the many different approaches, methods, and ways to make work.

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 Get a feel for some of my work as a creative collaborator here, or drop me a message and get in touch. You can find my puppetry performance showreel here. 

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My credits and work includes:

Macbeth – Singapore Rep Theatre, Shakespeare in the Park, Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker 

What Dreams May Come  –  English Touring Opera, Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker

The LeftBehinds –  National Theatre, Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker

Diablo 4, Wolphisto Activation @ Gamescon 2024

 Activision/Blizzard for Xbox and Leviathan Workshop, Puppeteer/Puppetry Coordination 

The Curious Rat – Little Angel Theatre  & Page One Theatre, Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker

Spirited Away – ToHo Co Ltd, Studio Ghibli, PW Productions Ltd, Puppet Making Team for Toby Olie & Daisy Beattie

The Enormous Crocodile – Leeds Playhouse, Regents Park Theatre, Roald Dahl Storytelling Co. 

Puppet Making Team for Toby Olie & Daisy Beattie

Awful Auntie –  Birmingham Stage Company, Puppet Making Team for Yvonne Stone

Knuckles (Miniseries) – Paramount +, Puppeteer and Puppet Making Team for Talk to the Hand

Faustus: That Damned Woman – Storyhouse, Prop/Mask Maker

Hey Duggee: The Live Theatre Show –  Kenny Wax & Cuffe and Taylor,  Puppet Making Team for Yvonne Stone & Daisy Beattie

101 Dalmations – Regents Park, Puppet Making Team for Toby Olie 

Spitting Image  – Avalon/Britbox, Season 1 Additonal Puppeteer & Season 2 Puppeteer

Animal Farm – CTP/Fiery Angel, Puppet Making Team for Toby Olie 

I Spy – Page One Theatre & Little Angel Theatre, Co-creator

Tangled Tales – Theatre Rites, Designer, Puppetry Co-Director & Maker

A Christmas Carol – Bristol Old Vic, Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker

A Christmas Carol  – Theatre By the Lake, Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker

When the Crows Visit – Kiln Theatre, Shadow Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker

Little Shop of Horrors – Storyhouse, Puppetry Consultancy & Direction

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show – Millenium Entertainment International, UK Associate Director

Brit Awards 2019 – eighteentwentysix, Puppetry Design, Making & Performance Team

Peter Pan – Park Theatre, Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker

The Lieutenant of Inishmore – Michael Grandage Company, Puppetry Consultancy

Swallows & Amazons – Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker

The Tempest –  Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker

Rise & Fall – Page One Theatre, Associate Director

ENO Baylis – Satyagraha Project – Guest Artist

Enid Blyton’s The Secret Seven – Storyhouse, Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker

Zeraffa Giraffa – Little Angel Theatre & Omnibus Theatre, Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker

The Snow Child – Unicorn Theatre, Sheffield Theatres, Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker

Watership Down – Watermill Theatre, Puppetry Designer, Director & Maker

Jane Wenham: Witch of Walkern – Out of Joint, Watford Palace Theatre, Puppetry Designer, Director& Maker

Larksong – New Vic Theatre, Puppetry Director & Consultant

The Broke ‘N’ Beat Collective – Theatre Rites & 20 Stories High,

 Puppet Co-Designer & Maker