About
ABOUT
POLLY BENNETT is a sought-after and lauded director, 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, Saltburn, 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. Her theatre work spans West End, Broadway and includes hits People, Places and Things, Cyrano de Bergerac, Sweat and Travesties.
She has worked extensively across UK, West End and Broadway theatre, is the co-founder of The Mono Box, a training up and creative network for emerging theatre talent and is on Equity's Dance Committee and Chair of the Choreographers and Movement Directors Network at Equity.
Her upcoming work includes working on Sam Mendes' Beatles movies, Greta Gerwig's Narnia and Dune Prophecy.

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
Monster: Series 3
dir. Max Winkler
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Wuthering Heights
dir. Emerald Fennell
The Night Always Comes
dir. Benjamin Caron​
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Giant
dir. Rowan Thale​
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Too Much
Netflix
dir. Lena Dunham​​
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A Complete Unknown
Warner Bros
dir. James Mangold
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Black Doves
BBC
dir. Alex Gabassi
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Kaos
Netflix
dir. Georgi Banks-Davies
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What It Feels Like for a Girl
BBC
dir. Brian Welsh
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The Estate
National Theatre
dir. Daniel Raggett
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People, Places and Things
Trafalgar Theatre
dir. Jeremy Herrin
The Lehman Trilogy
Australian, US Tour and West End
dir. Rory McGregor after Sam Mendes
Patriots
Almeida Theatre, West End and Broadway
dir. Rupert Goold
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