Toby Olié is an Olivier Award-nominated director, designer and puppeteer. He creates productions that are both original and unconventional, expanding audience’s expectations of what puppetry is capable of. His work includes The BFG (Royal Shakespeare Company); Spirited Away (Tokyo Imperial Theatre/London Coliseum); The Wolves in the Walls (Little Angel Theatre); 101 Dalmatians (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: A Reimagining (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Elephantom (National Theatre/Gillian Lynne Theatre); War Horse (National Theatre/Gillian Lynne Theatre); Pinocchio, Peter Pan, The Light Princess, and Hansel & Gretel (National Theatre); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Ballet); The Wind in the Willows (Royal Opera House); Little Shop of Horrors (Manchester Royal Exchange); Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre/UK tour); The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic/Trafalgar Studios); and The Little Mermaid (Walt Disney Theatrical).
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Bloomsbury presents Puppetry: A Backstage Guide, written and read by Toby Olié. From the creator of some of the world's most iconic puppetry shows comes this National Theatre Backstage Guide to the craft. With a focus on the processes within each ... SEE MORE