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Daisy Beattie

Daisy’s work in puppetry spans across designing, making, supervising and puppeteering.

Work as a designer and maker includes: The BFG (Royal Shakespeare Company); Spirited Away (Toho co.); The Enormous Crocodile (Roald Dahl Story Company); Zarafa Giraffa (Sebastian Mayer UK/France); Hey Duggee (Kenny Wax & BBC UK tour); Animal Farm (Birmingham Rep); The Wolves in the Walls (Little Angel Theatre)

Work as a puppet supervisor and maker includes: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre & West End); 101 Dalmatians (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, Pinocchio, Peter Pan (National Theatre); Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: A Reimagining (Shakespeare’s Globe)

Other work as a puppet maker includes: The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep); Don Quixote (RSC); Circus 1903 (International tour); The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic & West End); Luzia (Cirque du Soleil); Dead Dog in a Suitcase and Other Love Songs (Kneehigh); Warhorse (UK tour) Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre & Regent’s Park); A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Little Angel Theatre & Kneehigh); Avenue Q (Q Puppets, UK tour); Imaginary Menagerie (Les Enfants Terribles); The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom (Tall Stories).

Work as a puppeteer in film and television includes: Knuckles (Paramount); Tiny (HSBC advert); Racoon (Nickelodeon advert); Otter (Thames Water Advert); Jurassic World: Dominion (Amblin Entertainment); Solo: A Star Wars Story (Lucasfilm); Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Lucasfilm); Muppets Most Wanted (Walt Disney Pictures); The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Jim Henson Company & Netflix); Aleksandr the meerkat for Compare the Market.