Ben Galpin

is delighted to be returning to Dragons & Mythical Beasts. His other stage work includes The Hunting of the Snark (West End and Sydney Opera House), Potted Sherlock (West End), Bard in the Yard (Will & Co), Tabby McTat (Southbank Centre), Baba Yaga (Theatre Porto and Hullabaloo), as well as regular tours with Open Bar Theatre including The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Vanity Fair, and A Christmas Carol.

Screen credits include Belgravia (ITV), The Undeclared War (Channel 4), Restricted Intelligence (Twist & Shout) and online tennis comedy No Point.

His audio work includes BBC Radio 4’s Qualms, playing Julius Bell in Victoriocity, Jonathan Harker in Re: Dracula and Orryn Quill in Dungeons & Dragons podcast No Small Rolls, which he also co-produces.

Ben graduated from Drama Studio London in 2009, having first studied Chemistry at St John's College, Oxford.

Emily Cooper

trained as a puppeteer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre Credits include: Dragons & Mythical Beasts ( London & UK tour), War Horse (West End), Kate Bush Before the Dawn (The London Apollo), Dinosaur World Live (UK, Kuwait & Us Tour), Into The Dark Blue (Autin Dance), Finders Keepers (Theatre Rites), Lucid (Twice Shy Theatre), Sooty (National Tour), Crazy Kitchen Crew (European Tour), Puppetry Director-Morphic Grafitti’s Sherlock Holmes.

TV credits include: Newzoids (ITV), Strange Hill High (CBBC), Ellie Goulding (The Royal Variety Performances), Becca’s Bunch (Nickelodeon Junior), Gerry Anderson’s Firestorm (Minisode), Luna Greenpeace Advert.

Cooper is also a professional musician and singer songwriter. She has performed nationally and internationally.

Cooper joined the permanent Nicoll Entertainment team earlier this year as a Senior Puppet Technician & Consultant and oversees and trains new puppet technicians across all of our shows.

Rhea Locker-Marsh

graduated from the East 15 Acting School on the BA Physical Theatre course. Since graduating, she has co-run Ditto Theatre Company, an award winning theatre company producing work for family audiences using storytelling movement and puppetry. Shows include Ingo's War and Rocket Girl and The Unexpected Adventures of Darwin the Chimp. She is also a freelance puppeteer for companies such as Strangeface Theatre Company and Flabbergast theatre and has recently directed a children's show to be streamed at the Ziguzajg Festival in Malta.

Sean Garratt

is thrilled to be making his Dragons and Mythical Beasts Live debut in the USA. Graduating from East 15 Acting School, he has performed professionally around the world for the last 17 years as an actor, voice over artist and puppeteer-spanning stage, radio, and screen. He has worked with such companies as, The National Theatre of Scotland, The Lyric Chicago, The Globe, Manual Cinema, Theatre Rites, MIF, and National Theatre studios, Little Angel Theatre, to name a few. His acting career has seen him portray a variety of roles, ranging from comedic Henry V (the boy) to tragic The Yellow Wall Paper (Johnathan).

Garratt co-developed and stared in, the table top puppet show, The Table with Blind Summit Theatre in 2011, winning the Edinburgh Fringe First award that year and subsequently toured with the production, both nationally and globally for seven years thereafter.

He has also displayed his skill for puppetry in productions including Improbable Theatre's 'Tao of Glass', as well as operating large-scale puppets in Bregenz Festspiele’s The Magic Flute, Dinosaur World Live, and the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony directed by Danny Boyle.

Continually finding ways to refine his talents, Garratt has recently expanded his puppet training further and graduated from the highly acclaimed Curious School of Puppetry in the beginning of 2023.

Ross Lennon

graduated from East 15 Acting School (BA) Physical Theatre in 2022. He has continuously worked as an actor and puppeteer, touring across the UK, Europe and North America. Most notably, he is an Olivier Award-Winning puppeteer of Dinosaur World Live (Best Family Show, 2024). He also has appeared in immersive, Shakespearean and audio productions and is delighted to be joining Dragon’s and Mythical Beasts for the show’s first tour around China!

Recent Credits: Dinosaur World Live (puppeteer), Macbeth (Malcolm), Ancient Giants (puppeteer), Brimstone the Dragon (puppeteer), Killing Time (Faisal), 1797: Greenwich Pensioners (Ensemble), Maltilda’s Return (Geoffrey II).

William Uden

was dinosaur crazy as a boy and is very happy to get to be a T-Rex everyday as an adult. When not being a dinosaur, he works as a puppeteer specializing in large scale creatures and this year has been puppetry consultant for Evolution Productions on their Christmas pantomimes. He has worked with notable companies such as Tall Stories (Room On The Broom), Little Angel (Emily Rising), and Universal Studios (Blue at The Jurassic Exhibition). He is delighted to be touring with Dinosaur World Live this season.