About

Phoebe Hyder is a performer, puppeteer and creative director with over ten years’ professional experience across puppetry, performance capture, XR theatre, TV, film, and games. Her work draws on a strong foundation in movement and storytelling, bringing together traditional craft with contemporary screen and digital practices.

A National Youth Theatre Associate Artist and an Emerging Artist at Chichester Festival Theatre, Phoebe has developed work across some of the UK’s leading creative institutions. At CFT, she recently created Moon River, her debut as lead artist — an intimate, non-verbal performance using puppetry, movement and subtle XR to explore themes of memory and transformation.

Phoebe’s screen career includes collaborations with major studios such as DreamWorks, Warner Bros., Disney/Lucasfilm, Sky, Paramount+, BBC, ITV, and Bad Wolf, as well as leading VFX and virtual production companies including Framestore, DNEG, Dimension, and Target3D. Her games and voiceover work includes projects with Rare, Xbox, Kioken, Moliner Pitstop and more, performing both voice and motion capture across multiple digital platforms.

In theatre, Phoebe’s credits include projects with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Headlong, The Lowry, The Lyric Hammersmith, Little Angel Theatre, and further work blending puppetry and movement direction across the UK.

Her international projects include British Council–funded work with Youth Theatre Kenya, creative development residencies with Nordland Visual Theatre in Norway, and a 2025 commission with The Elephant Queen Trust, where she co-designed and puppetry-directed a touring wildlife production for schools and communities across Kenya.

Phoebe trained at Guildford School of Acting as a Sir Michael Redgrave Scholar, with additional specialist training from Lecoq, Gecko, Emma Rice Company, Frantic Assembly and Complicité.

She is also a qualified 200hr yoga instructor and certified Makaton tutor, championing accessible, body-aware approaches to performance and education.

Grounded, collaborative and genuinely multidisciplinary, Phoebe brings clarity, care and creativity to every project — and believes curiosity and playfulness are as essential to good work as precision and professionalism.

She is also, admittedly, terrible at spelling.