Toby Olié

Puppetry Designer & Director

Studio: MSS 19

Toby is a director, designer and puppeteer. He is co-artistic director of Gyre & Gimble, a theatre company specialising in puppetry.

Work as director includes: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: A Reimagining (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Hartlepool Monkey (Gyre & Gimble, UK tour), The Elephantom (National Theatre & West End) and associate puppetry director of War Horse (West End).

Work as puppetry designer/director includes: Pinocchio, Peter Pan, The Light Princess and Hansel & Gretel (National Theatre), Don Quixote (Royal Shakespeare Company & West End), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Ballet), The Wind in the Willows (Royal Opera House & West End), Disney’s new staging of The Little Mermaid (in Holland, Moscow & Tokyo), The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic & West End), Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre & UK tour), A Christmas Carol, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Firework-Maker’s Daughter and Peter Pan (Chichester Festival Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Secret Garden (Sarasota Ballet) and Goodnight Mister Tom (West End & UK tour).

Work as a puppeteer includes: Hind of Joey in the original production of War Horse (National Theatre) before moving to Joey’s head for the subsequent West End transfer, Venus and Adonis (Royal Shakespeare Company), National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage (BBC One), The Homeless Polar Bear (Greenpeace campaign film), Mongrels (BBC Three), Hospitalworks (Theatre-Rites) and Angelo (Little Angel Theatre).

http://www.tobyolie.com/