Finn Caldwell

Finn is a director, designer and performer; he is co-artistic director of Gyre & Gimble, a theatre company specialising in puppetry. As Gyre & Gimble work as Co-Director/Puppet Designer includes: The Hartlepool Monkey (UK Tour) and The Elephantom (National Theatre & West End). As Puppetry Co-Designer/Director: Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre & Regent's Park Open Air Theatre) and The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic). Upcoming work includes co-directing/Puppet Designing The Four Seasons (Globe Theatre). Other work includes Angels in America and The Light Princess (National Theatre); Groundhog Day (Additional Movement - Old Vic & Broadway); Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (Old Vic & Toronto); The Bear (Puppetry Director - Pins & Needles); The Tempest (Birmingham Royal Ballet); Alice's Adventures Underground and Adventures in Wonderland (Les Enfants Terrible); Ariodante (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence); War Horse (National Theatre, West End & internationally); Dream Space (Globe Theatre); Rubies in the Attic (Riverside Studios); Shrek: The Musical (West End); Climate (Guildhall School of Music and Drama) and Tom Thumb (Edinburgh Festival & tour - Fringe First-winner). As a director, work includes: David Walliams' First Hippo on the Moon (co-director/designer - Les Petits Theatre Company); Lardo (Old Red Lion). As a performer, he has appeared in Saint Joan; War Horse; Or You Could Kiss Me and Punchdrunk's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (National Theatre); Hamlet and Julius Caesar (RSC); Complicite's A Dog's Heart (La Scala); Blind Summit's Lowlife (LIMF); Madam Butterfly (ENO); Brighton Rock (Almeida); Elephant (BAC); Antigone (Old Vic); and Macbeth (Albery). Films include Alice and The Suicide Brothers.