Tutors — Curious School of Puppetry

SARAH WRIGHT
Sarah trained at the Little Angel Theatre and has worked extensively within physical and puppetry based theatre ever since! She is an Associate Artist with Kneehigh and LAT.

Puppet Direction includes: Kneehigh: The Tin Drum, Dead Dog in a Suitcase, Brief Encounter, Red Shoes, Hansel and Gretel, Wild Bride. Young Vic: The Life of Galileo, A Season in the Congo. Little Angel: Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Angelo. Shakespeare’s Globe: The Little Matchgirl, Macbeth (dir. Iqbal Khan). RSC: The Empress, Tempest. Bath Theatre Royal: The Double. Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures: Sleeping Beauty. Silent Tide: Silent Tide, The Adventures of Curious Ganz.

As Puppeteer includes: LAT: Venus and Adonis, Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, The Little Mermaid. Kneehigh: The Tin Drum, Dead Dog in a Suitcase. Silo Theatre Amsterdam: The Tower, Planetarium Silo, Hotel. Faulty Optic/Invisible Thread: Fish Clay Perspex, Plucked, Les Hommes Vides. Improbable: Animo.

www.silent-tide.com

LEAD TUTORS

RENE BAKER Director and Teacher
Rene specialises in puppet and object theatre, with over 25 years professional practice as a performer, director, designer, researcher and pedagogue. She trained at the Little Angel Theatre (London) and from 1992-1998 was a core member of the creative team at Norwich Puppet Theatre (UK). 1998-2005 she taught puppet manipulation at the Central School of Speech and Drama (London) and 2005-2010 lectured in visual theatre and directed performances at the Institut del Teatre (Barcelona). 2010-2012 she was a full-time guest teacher in the puppetry and circus departments of the Turku Academy of Arts in Finland. Rene is currently working in the UK as a freelance director, trainer and coach in puppet and object theatre.

www.renebaker.org

TOBY OLIÉ Puppet Director and Designer
Toby is a director, designer and performer who trained in puppetry at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He is founder and co-artistic director of Gyre & Gimble, a theatre company specialising in puppetry.
Toby was a puppeteer of Joey in the original company of War Horse (National Theatre), on leaving the show as a performer in 2011 he was made an associate puppetry director.

He co-directed and designed the puppets for The Elephantom (National Theatre & West End) as well as creating puppetry for: The Light Princess (National Theatre), Disney’s new staging of The Little Mermaid (Holland, Moscow & Tokyo), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Ballet), Goodnight Mister Tom (West End & UK tour) and Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre).

www.tobyolie.com

LYNDIE WRIGHT MBE Designer and Maker of Puppets and Puppet Theatre
Lyndie founded the Little Angel Theatre with her husband John Wright in 1961. She still works in her workshop next door where she has designed and made world renowned puppets ever since.
For Little Angel: Venus and Adonis, Petrushka, Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, The Singing Mermaid, Paper Dolls, Cindermouse and Angelo. Kneehigh: The Tin Drum, Brief Encounter, Hansel and Gretel, Dead Dog in a Suitcase. Shakespeare’s Globe: The Little Matchgirl, A Midsummer Nights Dream. RSC: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, The Canterbury Tales.

Other Theatres includes Opera North: The Magic Flute. NT: Coram Boy. Polka Theatre: Paddington Bear, Stewart Little. Brandenberg Theatre, Germany: Tranquilla Trampeltreu.