Isabel Lyster is a performance maker, puppetry specialist and visual artist. She works in collaboration with theatre companies and a network of individual practitioners combining performance and puppetry. She is often commissioned as a puppet maker in response to briefs, and at the stage of design and conception.
She also works in education by running workshops on puppet manipulation, devising performances and facilitating creative work for young people.

She is fascinated to combine puppetry with interdisciplinary arts, looking at the movement of objects within performance and how this can interplay with the body of the performer. When fabricating, she investigates new technology and the sculptural effect of puppets on stage.

Recent projects include The Queens Theatre Youth program (London), Handmade Parade (Hebden Bridge), Blunderbus in house prop making (Newark). She has commissions for The Mayor of London New Years Day Parade (London), The Happy Prince touring show (Greater London) and National Art Service.

She has shown performance at the Charleville Mezieres Festival Mondial des Theatres des Marionettes (France) First World Festival of Puppetry (Russia), Buxton Puppetry Festival, PQ Scenofest (Czech Republic) and Suspense Puppetry Festival (London).