Fight Director. Movement Director. Motion Capture Specialist. Aerialist.

Australia.  

Founding Company Director.

Full list of credits.

Lyndall (she/her) is a Fight Director, Movement Director and performer for Stage, Screen and Performance Capture (Motion Capture), with a career spanning 20 years in Australia and Internationally. For 15 years she has worked extensively as a fight director in the U.K., North America, Scandinavia and Continental Europe, for companies such as Disney Australia, the Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, West Australian Opera, Opera Australia, Queensland Theatre Company, GWB Entertainment and the Rose Theatre Kingston (U.K.).

Lyndall is a senior instructor with the Society of Australia Fight Directors inc. (SAFDi) and certified teacher with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat (BADC). Alongside Captivate workshops she regularly teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts (The University of Melbourne), the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, 16th St. Actors Studio and the National Theatre Drama School. Lyndall was one of the first practitioners worldwide to develop specialist training for Performance Capture and Motion Capture performance, with Captivate Action being the first to offer Motion Capture workshops.

Lyndall trained as an actor at London’s ArtsEd School of Acting, before specialising in fight and movement performance. As such her methodology in direction and teaching action is story-lead, and she works closely with directors and actors to create dynamic and character-driven scenes.

As a movement practitioner, Lyndall’s specialist interest area is in character transformation into human, animal and fantasy creatures – which she enriches with a background in Veterinary Medicine (with 12 years experience as a working Veterinarian). She has a deep understanding of movement, in particular in functional biomechanics and physical story-telling – due to a strong background in state, national and international level sports such as gymnastics, acrobatics, dance, ball sports and swimming, as well as martial arts, aerial (harness) work and biomedical science. Lyndall’s particular strength is her understanding on how to guide each individual actor towards unlocking their most truthful, engaging and sustainable physical performance, in collaboration with the creative direction of each project. Lyndall is currently training in Intimacy Coordination and Intimacy Direction.

Lyndall is still a working actor, and from 2018 to 2022 she was Movement Captain, Principal Aerialist, Ensemble and cover for principal roles in Melbourne’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Recent fight/movement credits include Rusalka (West Australian Opera);  The Picture of Dorian Gray (Michael Cassel Group); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, 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); 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); Nosferatu, Looking for Alibrandi, Atlantis, The Return, Because the Night and Cloudstreet (Malthouse Theatre); 37 (Queensland Theatre Company); 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.).

FULL CV: FIGHT DIRECTING and TEACHING CREDITS

Contact: lyndall@captivate-action.com