Annie Brooks is a performer, puppeteer and theatre maker based in Brighton. She works freelance making puppets for theatre and is a resident performer with Foul Play Productions, Inconvenient Spoof and Whalley Range All Stars. She runs her own theatre and visual arts company, Colossal Crumbs, which specializes in puppetry and large-scale visual performances to feed the imagination of the audience. She is currently developing a puppet based theatre show, Carp Blanche.

Annie is a recent graduate of Brighton University, studying Theatre and Visual Art. She experiments with puppetry, film and animation in visual arts performances in the theatre and to anywhere they may lend themselves. Her interest in sculptural set and costume was prominent in her first show, Colossal Crumbs, which incorporated these ideas with puppetry and dance. She works on a large scale (her biggest puppet to date towering at 10ft), whilst also altering perspective through the use of tiny puppets. The work is largely non-verbal, using visual and musical approaches to tell stories and communicate feelings for which words cannot be easily found.

Annie likes to make puppets that are beautiful and intriguing, as well as playful, entertaining and often edible. She uses recurrent themes in her work, most significantly food and often dresses up as large vegetables.