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Phoebe Hyder

Puppeteer Movement Director Puppetry Director Choreographer Actor

Phoebe (She/Her), is an actor, puppeteer, movement director, puppetry director and movement artist specialising in Mocap/Pcap.

She comes from a family of Antique dealers and grew up working at Portobello Market on her Dad’s stand whilst going to forest school in Surrey. Her performance and creative work spans across live theatre, film, TV, Voice over, game and AR/XR Mocap and Pcap and she regually facilitates/teaches across these skills.

Since graduating from GSA in 2017 Phoebe has gone on to train, work and collaborate with well known companies and schools including: Chichester Festival Theatre, Lecoq, complicite, The School for Wise Children, Frantic Assembly, and Gecko.

Recent 2020/21 Credits include:

His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass (BBC/HBO), Dream, Puck & Mustardseed U/S (The RSC) The Lips (Puppets with Guts) Gnomus Enormous (Finn Caldwell /Puppets with Guts), Trine 5, Anges (Frozenbyte Games) Undisclosed Project, Motion Capture (Warnerbros/Framestore) The Flying Bath (Little Angel Theatre) Felt, Movement/Puppetry Direction (Southwark Playhouse) Flux, Movement Direction (Theatre 503) The Prisim (Les Enfants Terribles).

She is passionate about access within the arts and is a fully qualified Mackaton sign user and currently training in BSL using this to teach yoga classes and facilitating accessible theatre/movement classes.

She’s also very bad at spelling.

Credits

Recent 2020/21 Credits include:

His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass (BBC/HBO), Dream, Puck & Mustardseed U/S (The RSC) The Lips (Puppets with Guts) Gnomus Enormous (Finn Caldwell /Puppets with Guts), Trine 5, Anges (Frozenbyte Games) Undisclosed Project, Motion Capture (Warnerbros/Framestore) The Flying Bath (Little Angel Theatre) Felt, Movement/Puppetry Direction (Southwark Playhouse) Flux, Movement Direction (Theatre 503) The Prisim (Les Enfants Terribles).

Training

THE GUILDFORD SCHOOL OF ACTING
(SIR MICHAEL REDGRAVE SCHOLARSHIP)

THE SCHOOL FOR WISE CHILDREN- Movement Directon

THE ENGLISH YOUTH BALLET
(ISTD ADVANCED ONE)

THE MACKATON CHARITY

YOGA ALLIANCE 200HR

LECOQ
(ENGLAND INTENSIVE)

FRANTIC ASSEMBLY
(INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCE)

GECKO
(INTENSIVE COMPANY)

THE APC
(PRO REC HONOURS LEVEL)

Location

London

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • AR / VR
  • Circus
  • Dance
  • Film - documentary
  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Gaming and interactivity
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • New technologies / digital
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - documentary
  • TV - drama
  • Visual arts

What I do

  • Choreography
  • Creative Access
  • Devising
  • Facilitating
  • Movement Direction
  • Outdoor performance
  • Performing
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Puppetry
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Street Theatre
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with Deaf artists
  • Working with Deaf non-professional adults / children
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development

Additional Languages

Mackaton Sign Language, SEE

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