Director, Puppetry & Movement Director and Performer for live performance and screen.
Laura is an Olivier Award Winning Theatre Maker, specialising in Movement and Puppetry.
A highly skilled and experienced visual story teller, passionate about putting movement and puppetry at the heart of a story.
Olivier Award Winner - Best Family Show 2024
Dinosaur World Live
Photo: Rankin
Current Projects
Laura’s current shows for Christmas ‘24 include; Puppetry and Movement Director on The Jingleclaw at Birmingham Hippodrome, Puppetry Director on The Lightning Thief the Musical at The Other Palace and as Pupperty Consultant on Odd and the Frost Giants for The Unicorn Theatre.
With a passion for collaboration and devising, at the forefront of her field, Laura is a highly skilled adapter, specialising in both large and small-scale work. Laura focuses puppetry and movement to deliver big visual sequences to land dynamic, playful, high impact theatre.
The Lion Inside
Recent work includes:
The Lion Inside (Puppetry & Movement Director), The Unicorn Theatre, Rose Theatre Kingston & International tour; The Enfield Haunting (Movement Director), West End; The Secret Garden ( Puppetry), Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; Wishmas ( Puppetry), Secret Cinema; Pinocchio ( Movement and Puppetry Director), Unicorn Theatre. Laura is also Co-Director of both Dinosaur World Live (Olivier Award Winner) and Dragons and Mythical Beasts (Olivier Award nominated) which both tour the UK & Internationally.
Other work includes: Jingle Claws (Birmingham Hippodrome); Cable Street (Puppetry Consultant)(Southwark Playhouse). The Secret Garden (Puppetry) for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; Dinosaur World Live (Co-Director), Dragons and Mythical Beasts (Co-Director), The Lion Inside (Movement and Puppetry Director) for Nicoll Ent. Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/ US/ UK tour; Romeo and Julie (Puppetry Consultant), Common (Puppetry), Small Island (Puppetry Consultant), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Puppetry Consultant), WarHorse Berlin (Associate Movement Dir), Anna (Associate Movement Dir) for the National Theatre; The Boy in the Dress (Puppetry Director), Don Quixote (Puppetry Co- Director), Oppenheimer (Movement Re-Staging for the West End) for the RSC; A Monster Calls (Puppetry Dir) at the Old Vic; The Enfield Haunting (Movement Dir) West End; Run Sister Run (Movement Dir) for Paines Plough at the Sheffield Crucible; Pinocchio (Movement & Puppetry Director) at The Unicorn Theatre; Wishmas (Puppetry Director) for Secret Cinema; Macbeth (Puppetry Director), A Mid Summer Night’s Dream (Puppetry Dir) for Red Rose Chain, 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony (Movement Assistant).
Pinocchio - The Unicorn Theatre
Dragons and Mythical Beasts- The Southbank Centre, London
The Secret Garden- Regents Park Open Air Theatre
The Lion Inside- Unicorn Theatre and The Rose Theatre Kingston
Running Wild (Photo Johan Persson)
Peter Pan NT (Photo Steve Tanner)
Oppenheimer (Photo Keith Pattison)
As Performer: London Tide (National Theatre), Peter Pan (National Theatre), Elephantom (National Theatre), Women Beware Women (National Theatre), WarHorse (NT in the West End), Oppenheimer (RSC), The Shoemaker’s Holiday (RSC), Running Wild (Regent’s Park), The Lorax (The Old Vic), Goodnight Mr Tom (Chichester Festival Theatre), Above Me the Wide Blue Sky (Fevered Sleep, The Young Vic), Faeries (Royal Opera House), Mischief (Theatre Rites), Brilliant (Fevered Sleep).
The Lorax
Films include: London Road (Rufus Norris, National Theatre/BBC Films/BFI), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Puppeteer, (Warner Bros), Gravity, Movement Artist (Warner Bros), The Homeless Polar Bear (Greenpeace campaign film) and Alice (Marianne Elliott, Ruby Films).