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

As a performer, theatre credits include: War Horse (National Theatre & West End), Angelo (Little Angel Theatre), Hospitalworks (Theatre-Rites) and development workshops for The Light Princess and Or You Could Kiss Me (National Theatre Studio), Satyagraha (Improbable & English National Opera), The Chimp Project (Handspring Puppet Company) and Mahabharata (Sadler's Wells). Film and TV credits include: Alice (Ruby Films & Film4), Mongrels (BBC Three), The Insiders (Channel 4) and The Futureheads music video Walking Backwards.

As a designer/maker Toby has produced puppets for Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Young Vic & Southbank Centre), Petite Rouge and Disney's The Jungle Book (The Scoop Amphitheatre), Peter Pan (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Follies (Royal Theatre Northampton. 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), Gentle Giant (Royal Opera House) and Room on the Broom (Tall Stories).