Craig Leo is a South African theatre designer, puppeteer and performing artist.  South African collaborators include Magnet Theatre, Jazzart Dance Theatre, Mothertongue, Janni Younge Productions and The Handspring Puppet Company.  

Productions include Medea, Bolero, Rain in a Dead Man’s Footprints, Cargo, Partly God, The Flower of Shembe, I turned away and she was gone, City of Paradise, The Firebird and Womb of Fire, Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus, Droomkraan Kroenike.  

His collaboration with The Handspring Puppet Company includes Tall Horse, William Kentridge’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse, Franco Dragone’s House of the Dancing Water, War Horse, Or I'll Kiss You, Olifantland  and Lara Foot’s The Life and Times of Michael K.  

Craig designed and directed the puppetry for Sally Cookson’s The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe (The Leeds Playhouse and Bridge Theatre, London) and performed in Gyre and Gimble's, Vivaldi's Four Season Re-Imagined (The Shakespeare's Globe, London). He is currently a puppeteer for Walk with Amal, a Walk Productions/Handspring collaboration (Europe 2021 - USA/Mexico 2023).