Wattle & Daub is a UK-based puppetry and visual theatre company.
Tobi Poster-Su is a UK-based theatremaker and scholar who specialises in puppetry and devised, crossdisciplinary work. As artistic director of Wattle and Daub, Tobi has co-created and performed in The Lonesome Death of Eng Bunker (Omnibus Theatre), Chang and Eng and Me (and Me) (Chinese Arts Now Festival), The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak (Wilton’s Music Hall) and Triptych (Mayfest). They have worked as a puppetry director and puppeteer on shows including Tom Morris’s A Christmas Carol (Bristol Old Vic) and Heidi: A Goat’s Tale (the egg) and RSC and Improbable’s My Neighbour Totoro (the Barbican). Tobi leads the MA in Puppetry at Wimbledon College of Arts and is completing an AHRC-funded PhD (Towards a Critical Puppetry: Racialisation and Material Performance in the Twenty-First Century) at Queen Mary University of London.
Laura Purcell-Gates is a practitioner and scholar specialising in puppetry, object performance and non-normative, including disabled, bodies. As co-founder and former co-artistic director Laura of Wattle and Daub, Laura co-created The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak (Wilton’s Music Hall) and Triptych (Mayfest). She trained in puppetry with Michael Somers of Open Eye Figure Theatre in the US, and currently lectures in puppetry and theatre at Bath Spa University in the UK. More information on her projects, presentations and publications can be found at laurapurcellgates.academia.edu.
