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Shaun McCourt

Shaun McCourt

Shaun is currently the BFG Body Puppeteer and Puppeteer captain in THE BFG for the RSC in Stratford and will be heading later in 2026 to Singapore with the company.

Training: Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre includes: BFG Body/Puppeteer Captain in The BFG (RSC), Pieter Cammaerts in In The Mouth of the Wolf (Barn Theatre, Cirencester), Christopher Wren in The Mousetrap (UK Tour); Mr Granville/JackRabbit/Aslan Puppetter/Puppet Captain & US Mr Tumnus in The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Mr Granville/JackRabbit/Aslan Puppetter & US Mr Tumnus in The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (UK Tour); Ensemble – U/S Harry & William in The Windsor’s: Endgame; Perkins/US Eddie in Blood Brothers (UK Tour), Jim in The Railway Children (Kings Cross Theatre), Puppeteer in War Horse (National Theatre/New London Theatre), Silva in Imagine This (Union Theatre), Issacher/US Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK Tour), Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe (Wiltons Music Hall), Ensemble in Pirates of Penzance (Kilworth House), Alvin in Miracle on 34th Street (UK Tour), Featured soloist in Bernstein’s Mass (Royal Festival Hall)

Workshops include: Pride (P&P Productions/National Theatre), The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Chris Harper Productions), The Grinning Man (National Theatre/Bristol Old Vic), I Capture the Castle (National Theatre Studios), The Attic (Theatre Royal Haymarket).

TV includes: Bystander in S3 of HBO Series (to be released)

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