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 About 

ABOUT
POLLY BENNETT is a sought-after and lauded director, writer, movement director and choreographer based in London. Her film, TV and theatre experience spans creating nuanced, full-bodied characters to orchestrating elaborate, large-scale sequences and international events.

Polly's insights into human behaviour and physical psychology have earned the respect of a coterie of award-winning creatives, including Rami Malek, Sam Mendes, Baz Lurhmann, Emerald Fennell, Naomi Ackie and Austin Butler. Her work has spanned Oscar- and Emmy-winning projects such as Bohemian Rhapsody, Elvis, Netflix's The Crown, Hulu's The Great, and BBC's Killing Eve.

Her event work includes the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Celebrations at Windsor Castle (ITV), Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremony and London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony. 

She has worked extensively across UK, West End and Broadway theatre and is the co-founder of The Mono Box, a training up and creative network for emerging theatre talent.

Her upcoming work includes Feud on FX, Kaos on Netflix, Saltburn on Amazon, and the final project in her quartet of music icons, Bob Marley: One Love.
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The production is a triumphant mix of pithy, authentic dialogue, Polly Bennett’s extraordinary movement.

Manchester Evening News

Yen, Royal Court / Royal Exchange

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The orgasmic reactions of girls in the crowd are as elegantly choreographed as Elvis’s gyrations by movement maestro Polly Bennett.

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***** Mark Kermode, The Guardian

 Elvis (Warner Bros)

 A striking use of movement by Polly Bennett...

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Financial Times

The Village, Stratford East 

 

Too Much 

Netflix 

dir. Lena Dunham

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The Listeners 

Element Pictures

dir. Janicza Bravo 

 

A Gentleman in Moscow

Paramount / Showtime ​

dir. Sam Miller 

Kaos 
Netflix 

dir. Georgi Banks-Davies 

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Bob Marley: One Love

Paramount

dir. Reinaldo Green 

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Saltburn 
Amazon

dir. Emerald Fennell 

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The Great, Series 3 

Hulu

Various directors


Elvis
Warner Bros

dir. Baz Luhrmann

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The Lehman Trilogy 

Australian and US Tour

dir. Zoe Ford after Sam Mendes 

 

Patriots
Almeida Theatre, West End and Broadway

dir. Rupert Goold 


Opening Night 
Gielgud Theatre 

dir. Ivo Van Hove 


A Long Day's Journey Into Night 
West End 

dir. Jeremy Herrin

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