Lyndall Grant

Lyndall Grant (she/her) is a fight and movement director, actor, and motion capture specialist, with a career spanning 20 years in Australia and internationally.  She trained as an actor at London’s ArtsEd School of Acting, then specialised in fight and movement performance, as the founding director of company Captivate Action in the U.K. and then Australia.

Malthouse Theatre: THE BIRDS, TRUTH, NOSFERATU, THE RETURN, BECAUSE THE NIGHT, LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI, ATLANTIS and CLOUDSTREET.

Other Theatre:  Fight and Movement credits include OSCAR and AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (The Australian Ballet); BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Disney Australia); MILKED, TWO REMAIN and PUNK ROCK (fortyfivedownstairs); GROUNDHOG DAY THE MUSICAL, WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRIGINA WOOLF and DEATH OF A SALESMAN (GWB Entertainment); 37, NEVER HAVE I EVER, DESTINY, THE ROBOT DOG, THE ALMIGHTY SOMETIMES, IS GOD IS, MY SISTER JILL, A VERY JEWISH CHRISTMAS CAROL and SUNDAY (Melbourne Theatre Company); MJ THE MUSICAL (Michael Cassel Group); RUSALKA (Opera Australia / West Australian Opera); BLACKOUT SONGS and THE WAY THINGS ARE (Red Stitch Actors Theatre); THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS and THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (Rose Theatre Kingston, U.K.); HENRY IV PART 1 (St. James Theatre, U.K.) and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Theatre Royal Haymarket, U.K.). Acting credits include DON QUIXOTE (The Australian Ballet); ROMEO & JULIET (Melbourne Shakespeare Company) and HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (Michael Cassel Group).

Lyndall is a certified teacher with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat, and senior instructor with the Society of Australian Fight Directors inc.  She teaches stage combat, movement and motion capture at the Victorian College of the Arts, Collarts, WAAPA and NIDA Open.

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