Toby Sedgwick

Background

Toby Sedgwick was born in England in 1958 and attended Bryanston School in Dorset.

Education

He later studied for two years at L"École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where he co-founded the "The Moving Picture Mime Show"".

Career

Due to its success, the play was going on a 30-city tour in the United States and was also produced in Australia and in Germany, opening late in 2013, just before the centenary of the first world war. He trained at the Arts Educational (drama course). in London. Early work and subsequent career Sedgwick made a directorial debut with Pidgin Macbeth (1998) at the National Theatre in London.

In 2006, he choreographed Hergé"s Adventures Of Tintin at the Playhouse Theatre and Dick Whittington And His Cat at the Barbican.

He also directed a Manchester production of The Taming of the Shrew. Sedgwick"s first major cr was providing co-direction for The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre, West End, 2006).

Acting credits include Earfull at the Battersea Arts Centre in 2007. Other credits include The Tempest (2007), His Dark Materials (2009), and Looking Foreign Yoghurt (2009).

Sedgwick had previously acted as "The Professor" in the West End musical Animal Crackers, which opened at the Lyric Theatre on 16 March 1999 and closed 15 May 1999.

Sedgwick has served as movement director for British productions of The Nativity, Cinderella, King Lear, The Government Inspector, Marat/Sade, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Other work Sedgwick"s theatrical work outside England is limited. Besides the Broadway transfer of War Horse, Sedgwick"s lone New York movement-directorial cr is The 39 Steps, produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company starting in 2008.

Achievements

• He achieved critical acclaim for his expressive "horse choreography" for life-size puppets used in War Horse (2007), which played at West End"s New London Theatre, Broadway"s Vivian Beaumont Theater and Toronto"s Princess Of Wales Theatre. Foreign the latter, Sedgwick won a 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer and a 2012 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Choreography in a Play or Musical.