OUR TEAM
Founding Company Director
Lyndall Grant is an actor, fight director, movement director, and performance capture specialist whose work centres on physical storytelling across stage, screen, and immersive technologies. With a career spanning more than 20 years across Australia and internationally, she trained as an actor at London’s ArtsEd School of Acting before specialising in movement and action performance from 2007 onwards. Lyndall founded Captivate Action in the U.K. in 2013, bringing the company back to Australia when she returned to Melbourne in 2016.
Lyndall is an accredited teacher of dramatic combat with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat and the Academy of Performance Combat (U.K.), and currently serves as President of the Society of Australian Fight Directors Inc. She teaches stage combat, movement, and performance capture at institutions including the Victorian College of the Arts, WAAPA, and NIDA Open, and was recently a guest instructor at the Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Workshop in Canada. She has also taught extensively throughout the U.K., Canada, Norway, Sweden, and Austria.
Originally coming to the performing arts through dance, gymnastics, and high-level sport, Lyndall brings a unique interdisciplinary approach to her work. Her previous career as a veterinarian informs her understanding of biomechanics, anatomy, physiology, neurology, and animal behaviour, all of which underpin her approach to movement, performance, and physical storytelling.
As a performer, Lyndall was Movement Captain, ensemble member, principal role cover, and aerialist in Melbourne’s production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child from 2018–2022.
Recent fight/movement credits include MJ The Musical, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Michael Cassel Group); Oscar (The Australian Ballet); Rusalka (Opera Australia, Queensland Opera, West Australian Opera); Heathers the Musical (GMG Productions); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, A Christmas Carol, Sunset Boulevard, Groundhog Day The Musical, Death of A Salesman, An American in Paris, (GWB); Beauty and the Beast (Disney Australia); Westgate, Much Ado About Nothing, Rebecca, Destiny, Topdog/Underdog, The Almighty Sometimes, 37, My Sister Jill, A Very Jewish Christmas Carol, Is God Is, Sunday, The Architect, Cosi, The Lady in the Van, Lillith the Jungle Girl, Straight White Men, Melbourne Talam, (Melbourne Theatre Company); Cruel Intentions the Musical (David Venn Enterprises); Game.Set.Match, Troy, The Birds, Nosferatu, Looking for Alibrandi, The Return, Because the Night and Cloudstreet (Malthouse Theatre); 37 (Queensland Theatre Company); Sunday, Is God Is, Lord of the Flies, Cosi (Sydney Theatre Company), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, Blackout Songs, The Way Things Are (Red Stitch); Milked, True West, Two Remain, Punk Rock (45 Downstairs), The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Royal Haymarket, U.K.), Alice in Winterland, The Wind in the Willows, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe (Rose Theatre Kingston, U.K.), Henry IV Part 1 (St. James Theatre, U.K.).
