Rachel Leonard joins TBAI as Puppetry Director for How Does Santa Go Down The Chimney?

Rachel is passionate about the tool of puppetry to help take storytelling in to realms of greater imaginative depth. She has been immersed in this endeavour for 32 years, having taught for the Curious School of Puppetry in addition to puppetry direction and performance.

Puppetry Directing credits include: Would You Bet Against Us? and The Cat and The Canary (TBAI); The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios); Cymbeline (RSC); Babe The Sheep Pig (Mercury Theatre Colchester); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC).

Theatre Performance Credits include: Walk With Amal  (Good Chance Theatre and The Walk Productions); White Horse (O-Region);  The Tao Of Glass (Improbable); Il Returno D'Ulisse (Handspring Puppet Co and William Kentridge); Fup (Kneehigh); A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (Kneehigh); Ugly Duckling (Kneehigh); War Horse (The National Theatre); Venus and Adonis (The RSC); The 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony (Blind Summit); The Journey Home, Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Little Mermaid, The Fisherman and his Soul, Angelo, and The Peach Child (The Little Angel Theatre); Macbeth, The Tempest, Bottom's Dream (The Puppet Theatre Barge).

Film credits include: Solo - A Star Wars Story (Lucasfilm Ltd); Muppets Most Wanted (Walt Disney Pictures); Prometheus (Dir. Ridley Scott).