| Toby Sedgwick | |
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| Born | England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | movement director, actor,[1] and theatre choreographer |
| Known for | War Horse The 39 Steps |
Toby Sedgwick is a British movement director, actor, and theatre choreographer. He achieved critical acclaim for providing "horse choreography" for War Horse, currently playing at West End's New London Theatre and Broadway's Vivian Beaumont Theatre.[2][3] For the latter, Sedgwick won a 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer.[4]
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He trained at the Arts Educational (drama course)and later studied for two years at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq[5] in Paris (where he co-founded the "The Moving Picture Mime Show")' .[6] in London.
Sedgwick made a directorial debut with Pidgin Macbeth (1998) at the National Theatre in London.[1] 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.[5]
Sedgwick's first major credit was providing co-direction for The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre, West End, 2006).[7] Acting credits include Earfull at the Battersea Arts Centre in 2007. Other credits include The Tempest (2007), His Dark Materials (2009), and Looking For Yoghurt (2009).[1] Sedgwick had previously acted as "The Professor" in the West End musical Animal Crackers,[6] which opened at the Lyric Theatre on 16 March 1999 and closed 15 May 1999.[8]
Sedgwick has served as movement director for England productions of The Nativity, Cinderella, King Lear, The Government Inspector, Marat/Sade, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.[5]
Sedgwick's theatrical work outside England is limited; besides the Broadway transfer of War Horse, Sedgwick's lone New York movement-directorial credit is The 39 Steps, produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company starting in 2008.[9][10] Billed as Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, it opened on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre, later transferring to the Cort Theatre (and later the Helen Hayes Theatre) for an extended run.[11]
In addition to theatre work, Sedgwick's film credits include 28 Days Later, Laissez-passe, and Shrooms.[5] In addition to serving as movement director in films, he has also appeared in small acting roles, such as "Thompson" in Safe Conduct (2002), "Infected Preist" in 28 Days Later (2002), "Black Brother" in Shrooms (2007), and "Enemy Pilot" in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010).[12] Sedgwick's first television role was as "Mummy" on Monster Café, which aired from 1994 to 1995 on Children's BBC.
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