Toby Olié trained in puppetry at The Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and now works as a puppetry performer, designer/maker and director.

As a performer, theatre credits include: Joey in War Horse (The National Theatre & Handspring Puppet Company), Angelo (The Little Angel Theatre), Hospitalworks (Theatre-Rites) and development workshops for Satyagraha (Improbable & English National Opera) and Mahabharata (Sadler's Wells). 

Film and TV credits include: The Insiders: Adventures of a Drama Queen (Channel 4) and The Futureheads' music video Walking Backwards.

As a designer/maker Toby has produced puppets for Petite Rouge and Disney's The Jungle Book (The Scoop Amphitheatre), Peter Pan (Chichester Festival Theatre), Follies (Royal Theatre Northampton) and the first stage adaptation of the Gunter Grass novel Tin Drum (Embassy Theatre). He was also a freelance maker for the mask and puppet department at The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre).

Directing credits include being puppetry consultant for Liberty (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre) and Gentle Giant (Royal Opera House: Linbury Studio). Toby is currently developing his own production Curtain Call, after a successful run of scratch performances during his final year of training.