Rachael Canning is an award-winning Set, Costume and Puppetry Designer/ Director for theatre.

Set and Costume Design credits: The Wizard of Oz (Curve Leicester & London Palladium); Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol, Hansel and Gretel and Rapunzel (all Citizens Theatre); Swanhunter (Opera North and The Wrong Crowd); Hag, Kite and The Girl with the Iron Claws (all The Wrong Crowd); Magical Night (Royal Opera House); House (Clean Break); Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauties and The Snow Tiger (Sherman Cymru); The Tailor’s Daughter (Welsh National Opera); Peter Grimes (Grand Theatre Geneva); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park); Winnie and Wilbur (Birmingham Rep); Purcell His Ground (English National Opera).

Puppet Design and Direction credits: The Tempest (RSC); The Famous Five (Theatr Clwyd & Chichester Festival Theatre); The Jungle Book, Of Mice and Men, Into The Woods and Oliver Twist (all Leeds Playhouse); The City Madam (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (English Touring Theatre, Traverse and Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Into the Woods and Peter Pan (both Regent’s Park and Public Theatre NYC); The Red Balloon (Royal Opera House); Kes and The Wizard of Oz (both Sheffield Crucible); Crocodile Fever (Traverse); Merlin (Northern Ballet); A Christmas Carol (Sherman Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scottish Opera).