Barry J.C. Purves (born 28 August 1960) is an English animator, director and screenwriter of puppet animation television and cinema and theatre designer and director, primarily for the Altrincham Garrick Playhouse in Manchester. Purves' book 'Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance' was released through Focal Press in 2007. Around 1996 he made plans to shoot a full-length film of Noye's Fludde, Benjamin Britten's opera version of a mystery play about the Deluge; he was also credited with co-presenting, in Mandarin, the live final of the Chinese talent search show Super Girl in 2006.