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.
The production is a triumphant mix of pithy, authentic dialogue, Polly Bennett’s extraordinary movement.
Manchester Evening News
Yen, Royal Court / Royal Exchange
The orgasmic reactions of girls in the crowd are as elegantly choreographed as Elvis’s gyrations by movement maestro Polly Bennett.
***** Mark Kermode, The Guardian
Elvis (Warner Bros)
A striking use of movement by Polly Bennett...
Financial Times
The Village, Stratford East
The Listeners
Element Pictures
dir. Janicza Bravo
Bob Marley: One Love
Paramount
dir. Reinaldo Marcus Green
A Gentleman in Moscow
Paramount / Showtime
dir. Sam Miller
Kaos
Netflix
dir. Georgi Banks-Davies
Saltburn
Amazon
dir. Emerald Fennell
The Great, Series 3
Hulu
Various directors
Chevalier
Searchlight
dir. Stephen Williams
Whitney: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Sony/Compelling Pictures
dir. Kasi Lemmons
Elvis
Warner Bros
dir. Baz Luhrmann
The Lehman Trilogy
West End
dir. Zoe Ford after Sam Mendes
Patriots
Almeida Theatre and West End
dir. Rupert Goold
House of Shades
Almeida Theatre
dir. Blanche McIntyre
Cyrano de Bergerac
West End and Broadway
dir. Jamie Lloyd