OUR TEAM
Founding Company Director
Lyndall Grant is a fight director, movement director, actor and motion capture specialist with a career spanning 20 years in Australia and Internationally. She trained as an actor at London’s ArtsEd School of Acting, and then specialised in fight performance and movement from 2007.
Lyndall is an accredited teacher with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat and the President of the Society of Australian Fight Directors. In 2013 she founded Captivate Action, which trains actors in stage/screen combat and motion capture in Australia and the U.K. Lyndall teaches stage combat at the Victorian College of the Arts, WAAPA, NIDA Open, and was recently a guest instructor at the Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Workshop in Canada. She has also taught extensively at workshops and institutions across the U.K., Norway, Sweden and Austria.
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, West Australian Opera); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, A Christmas Carol, Sunset Boulevard, Groundhog Day The Musical, Death of A Salesman, An American in Paris, 2:22 A Ghost Story (GWB); Beauty and the Beast (Disney Australia); Rebecca, Destiny, Never Have I Ever, The Robot Dog, Cost of Living, Topdog/Underdog, The Almighty Sometimes, 37, My Sister Jill, A Very Jewish Christmas Carol, Is God Is, Sunday, As You Like It, Berlin, The Lifespan of a Fact, The Architect, Cosi, Torch the Place, The Lady in the Van, Astroman, Lillith the Jungle Girl, Straight White Men, Melbourne Talam, Macbeth, Hungry Ghosts (Melbourne Theatre Company); Cruel Intentions the Musical (David Venn Enterprises); Troy, The Birds, Nosferatu, Looking for Alibrandi, Atlantis, 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); Il Viaggio A Reims (Opera Australia); Things I Know to Be True (Theatre Works); 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.).
