Finn Caldwell

Finn is a director, actor and puppeteer who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

As Gyre & Gimble, work includes: co-director/puppet designer of The Four Seasons: A Reimagining (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Hartlepool Monkey (UK tour) and The Elephantom (National Theatre & West End). As well as co-designer/director of puppetry for The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic & West End), The Lorax (Old Vic) and Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre & UK Tour).

Other work includes: director of puppetry/movement for Angels in America (National Theatre & Broadway), The Light Princess (National Theatre), War Horse (West End & Internationally), Groundhog Day (Old Vic & Broadway), The Bear (Pins & Needles), The Tempest (Birmingham Royal Ballet), Alice’s Adventures Underground (Les Enfants Terribles), Ariodante (Aix Festival & Dutch National Opera), Dream Space (The Globe), Rubies in the Attic (Riverside Studios), Tom Thumb (Edinburgh Festival & Tour -Fringe First Award winner) and Shrek the Musical (West End). Work as director includes: David Walliams’ First Hippo on the Moon (Les Petits Theatre Co.) and Lardo (Old Red Lion).

As a performer, Finn 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 (Royal Shakespeare Company), Complicite’s A Dog’s Heart (La Scala, Dutch National Opera, ENO), Blind Summit’s Lowlife (LIMF), Madam Butterfly (ENO and Metropolitan Opera), Brighton Rock (Almeida), Elephant (BAC), Antigone (Old Vic) and Macbeth (Albery). Films include Alice (Ruby Films) and The Suicide Brothers.

Finn has taught at schools, colleges and universities both nationally and internationally, as well as numerous theatre institutions including: National Theatre Learning, RSC, Chichester festival Theatre, Barbican, Almeida, RADA, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Italia Conti, East 15 and ALRA.