Rachael Canning

Puppet Designer

Rachael Canning is an award-winning Puppetry Designer/ Director for theatre, as well as Co-Artistic director of Theatre company The Wrong Crowd. She has worked extensively throughout the UK including at The Citizen’s Theatre, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, the Royal Opera House, Leeds Playhouse, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and on the West End. Previous work as puppetry designer includes The Wizard Of Oz (London Palladium), Into The Woods (Opera North) and Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).

Rachel’s work on Northern Ballet’s production of Merlin can be found in the clip below at 00:45:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw8DJUPpdD0