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Heath brown
Heath is an Australian composer specialising in music for film and theatre. Heath studied composition at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music from 2005 to 2008 with Professor Douglas Knehans as well as Constantine Koukias and Don Kay. He has since provided original scores for numerous film projects including Stripped Bare (Lucien Simon, Seventh Wave), Dish Communication (Shaun Wilson, Sky Machine), The Room at the Top of the Stairs (Briony Kidd, Adam Walker Film) and the multi award winning feature film, El Monstro Del Mar! (Stuart Simpson, Lost Art Films), with his work being recognised with a number of film festival awards for music. He has also designed sound and written music for numerous stage productions and arts events including the launch of Sabio Designs (winner of the Debut Award – Melbourne Fashion Week). A comprehensive list of credits is available at www.heathbrown.com.au.

Sara Cooper
Sara graduated with a B.Ed and drama major from UTAS in 1992 and in 1997 from the John Bolton Theatre School, Melbourne. She went on to appear in projects including the initial season of The Women’s Jail Project (Vic) and Neil Cameron’s Dante’s Inferno (Canberra), as well as numerous television ads and short films. In 2000 she played the role of Jack’s sister in Channel Ten’s multi award winning miniseries My Brother Jack. Since returning to Hobart in 2001 she has worked as a performer for Terrapin, is theatre, the TSO, Kickstart Arts, the Australian Script Centre and Big Monkey’s summer shows, and was a founding member of Sleeping Dogs (awarded Best Ensemble Performance, Melb Fringe, 2005). She has taught movement, improvisation, screen acting technique, and clowning in Tasmania, Victoria and NSW and undertaken further training under Phillipe Gaulier, Justus Neumann, and Aleksi Vellis. Most recently she appeared in Dream Masons and Beyond the Neck and has been voicing characters for Blue Rocket’s soon to be released animation series, Pixel Pinkie. Sara works as a Clown Doctor at the Royal Hobart Hospital and runs the roving entertainment company Koketteri. Sara was one of the original devisers and performers of Explosion Therapy.

Mark Cornelius
Mark has been working with computers since the Vic 20 (that’s before the Commodore 64, folks).  From 1991 to 1994, he worked in Brisbane on multimedia projects for large-scale visual installations and theatre productions (on an Amiga!). He relocated to Hobart in 1995 where he completed a B.F.A. at the University of Tasmania, studying sculpture and video. He has been operating a digital media business with Dianna Graf since 1998, and their projects were featured in the Young Designers’ Month and Design Island exhibitions in 2004 – 2006. Projects that Mark has worked on include a short film for SBS Independent, 3D modeling for the Port Arthur Historic Site, animation for the Antarctic Division, custom video installation for the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, and a music video for The Scientists Of Modern Music. He still can’t wait for video wallpaper.
www.clockworkbeehive.com

Sabrina D'Angelo
Sabrina has a Bachelor in Acting from Theatre Nepean (2006) where she performed in productions of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Trojan Women: A Love Story and Pericles. She has since collaborated with KumQuat Theatre on Lulu vs. Jack the Ripper for the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival and completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Production (Puppetry) at the Victorian College of the Arts (2008). The Falling Room and the Flying Room is her first production with Terrapin Puppet Theatre.

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Kate Davis
Kate is a freelance director and designer. She is the Co-Artistic director of THE RABBLE. Directing credits include: Cageling (THE RABBLE – 45 Downstairs & CarriageWorks), Three Men in a Bottle by Daniel Keene (Malthouse Theatre – Things on Sunday), Corvus by Jasmine Chan (THE RABBLE - CarriageWorks), 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane (Ashfield Youth Theatre), Silent Tangle (Writer & Director), four, warm and orange (Writer, Designer & Director, Melbourne Fringe Festival).

Design credits include: Cageling (THE RABBLE – 45 Downstairs & CarriageWorks), When the Pictures Came (Terrapin Puppet Theatre & Children’s Art Theatre of China), Dark, Not Too Dark (Alexandra Harrison, Performance Space), Superperfect (Shopfront Theatre & Nibroll, Japan), Zombie State (Melbourne Workers Theatre & Union House Theatre), Helena and the Journey of the Hello (Terrapin Puppet Theatre), Manna (Wharf2Loud STC), Salome - In Cogito Volume III (THE RABBLE - CarriageWorks), Corvus (THE RABBLE - CarriageWorks), Osama the Hero (THE RABBLE - Old Fitzroy Theatre & Carlton Courthouse), Can’t Leave Tomorrow Alone (Theatreworks), Anorak of Fire (Melbourne Fringe Festival & Adelaide Fringe Festival 2006), Lucky (La Mama) & Bumping Heads (Next Wave Festival & Dock 11 Berlin). Kate was nominated for a 2008 Green Room Award for the design of Zombie State.
www.therabble.com.au

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selena de carvalho
Selena is a multi-disciplinary artist currently completing the final subjects for a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania where she is on the Deans Roll of Honor and was awarded the Jon Lajos Prize in Fine Art (2010). Parallel to her studies Selena has exhibited regularly both locally and nationally in artist run spaces, like Platform (The Invisible Wait 2010) and at arts festivals such as This Is Not Art (Vixen, Harlot, Whore and the Voodoo Love Letter Scheme 2009). She is currently making the transition into designing for theatre in Terrapin’s production Love under the mentorship of Anna Tregloan.
http://selenadecarvalho.blogspot.com

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Ding Shi Liang
Ding Shi Liang is a member of the Children's Art Theatre of China, appearing in When the Pictures Came.

Ding commenced performance training in 2000 and graduated from Shanghai University, majoring in Acting, in 2006. In the same year he entered the Children’s Art Theatre of China and has subsequently performed in over 20 shows. In additon, Ding has provided voice-overs for films, TV series and cyber games; is a director of the Shanghai Children’s Palace; is an instructor at acting colleges; and teaches at the CATC-Shanghai Children’s' Art School.

Caleb Doherty
Caleb is highly regarded for his skills as a sound and video technician; he has mixed everyone from Lyrics Born to Regina Sector and his video clients range from Tasdance and Terrapin to the Australian Red Cross and the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs.

In 2008 Caleb officially launched Solid Orange Productions. Solid Orange isn’t your average production house, they have hung out of helicopters to get the perfect shot, filled in as the crew for a Danish news station, and even designed huge interactive multimedia experiences for 100s of young people… but generally speaking they specialise in customised corporate video at guaranteed prices and quality event documentation. To see what projects Caleb has been working on recently, or to check out the Solid Orange product range, visit www.solidorange.com.au

Erica Englert
Erica Englert has performed in such plays as Performix (directed by Julian Louis), 
Everyman (directed by Andy Rodoreda), 
Pennydrop (directed by Frank Newman), 
The Man from the Chip Shop (directed by Alice Williams), 
How to Assemble your own Water Feature (Psychadelic Physical Theatre group devised piece, directed and written by Alice Williams, Faustina Delaney and herself), and Screw Theatre (written by Brad, directed by herself). Erica appeared in the premiere Shanghai season of When the Pictures Came for Terrapin.

She has appeared in the following films: Somersault as Rachel (feature by Cate Shortland), The Lady Bug as Lady Bug (Short by Jane Campion), Wear Your Love Like Heaven as Helpless Girl (short by Ned) and Erica as Erica (short by Laura Jean Englert).

Erica performs her own characters including
Granny Dee, The Bug, Magda Madga,
Nervous Ned, Oompa Loompa, Trish from Terrigal, and runs 80’s Jazzercise workouts.

Erica's singing voice has harmonised on the album Our Swan Song (Laura Jean) and the self-titled album by Laura Imbruglia, as well as in the films Bright Star (The Lovers Duet) and some playful opera for The Water Diaries; both films composed by Mark Bradshaw and directed by Jane Campion.

Matthew Fargher
Matthew has composed original music for Terrapin Puppet Theatre (Touch the Air, Boats, The Gatekeeper), Marrugeku’s Mimi, Crying Baby and Burning Daylight, Circus Oz, Australian Theatre for Young People, Australian Theatre of the Deaf, Sidetrack, Belvoir Street Theatre, Kickstart Arts (Home Truths, Every Wrinkle Tells a Story, A Cat Called Bird), various festivals and events, as well as numerous films and animation projects. He has recently created Origins with musicians and storytellers from Hobart, Melbourne and Broome. As a musician he toured in Diary of a Madman with Geoffrey Rush and Belvoir Street Theatre.

Matthew has worked nationally and internationally since the early 1980s and has been resident in Tasmania for 8 years. Matthew has worked with a wide range of musical styles and technologies in his 20 years as a composer. His composition often uses custom designed instruments and manipulated found-sound along side contemporary forms (Hip Hop, Reggae, World, Roots and Blues). He has also been involved in location specific sound design, instrument making, and soundscape design for organisations such as the Art Gallery of South Australia, Mountain Festival Hobart, Utungan Percussion, and the Works Festival Glenorchy. He has coordinated music for many festivals and events including The Works Festival, Addison Road Community Centre’s Vox and the Choral Sea for the Paralympic Arts Festival Sydney 2000.

Matthew is currently a youth and community producer in Tasmania working with aboriginal elders and emerging artists as well as young rock bands, vocalists and hip hop artists producing original work for audio and video, and teaching song writing and audio design. He has established and runs a community access recording studio for the Pulse Youth Health Centre in Glenorchy, Hobart. In this context he also produces under the alias BJ Bedlam.

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BRYONY GEEVES
Bryony is a theatre, film and roving performer who, since studying at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, has enjoyed working for several Tasmanian and international theatre and film companies, including the Tasmanian Theatre Company (Bombshells, playreading series), Big Monkey Productions (Alice in Wonderland, Once a Jolly Jumbuck), Directions Theatre (The Tempest), Old Nick (The Golden Age, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida), Repertory (Present Laughter, The Venetian Twins), Exit Left (Rent, Cats), Shouting in the Evening (Sweeney Todd), Act (The Laramie Project), Adam Walker Films (The Room at the Top of the Stairs) Telwell film Productions, (Mna Dibeartha- Banished Women) and Terrapin Puppet Theatre (The Waltzing Tree).

Ryk Goddard
Ryk is the Breakfast Radio presenter for 936 ABC Hobart.

Ryk has written and produced several online comedy series including Ryk Goddard is Nearly Middle Aged, blogdaddy for Radio National and Sneaking Off to My Shed for DIY Father.com. He is a regular columnist for Kiwiparent magazine. His comedy Hip Hop character Cecil Brown has cult status in his home town of Hobart and regularly headlines in Sydney. He is a sought after MC for festivals, fundraisers and corporate events and has worked as a presentation skills trainer for business people.

Before joining the ABC he toured Adelaide Festival, Sydney Opera House and to Shanghai for Terrapin Theatre as a dramaturg and actor. He moved to Tasmania to work as Artistic Director of what is now Tasmanian Theatre Company. In seven years he established a new venue in Hobart, created critically acclaimed cross-artform performances and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for his work training new theatre makers in Tasmania. Prior to this he worked his way around Europe as a cook, cleaner, busker and odd jobs man.

Ryk trained in cross media with AFTRS, directing at Victoria University of Wellington and in acting at Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.

Here's some of what Ryk is doing online....
How to write the best Australian play
Naughty Dad Series
Parenting Series

KIRSTY GRIERSON

Kirsty has been involved in puppetry for over 15 years. During this time she has been one of the key artists with Terrapin Puppet Theatre and has toured extensively nationally and internationally. Through her work in puppetry Kirsty has developed strong skills as a performer, workshop co-ordinator, facilitator and director. This year as part of the Mountain Festival Kirsty coordinated and directed a performance involving around 200 community participants.  She also performed at the UNIMA International Puppetry Festival in Perth and has worked as community producer for Big Hart on two productions that featured in The Ten Days on the Island 2009.

Quinn Griggs
Quinn began training with Is Theatre while completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at UTAS in 2002. Since then he has performed and trained with Is Theatre, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Festival of Voices, AboutFace, The Mountain Festival, corporate performances and also presented a variety of independent works. From Shakespeare to Moliere to contemporary physical theatre, Quinn’s skills have seen him operate through a wide base of performance styles, and he has enjoyed playing many diverse and challenging roles. Learning and working with many talented Tasmanian artists, including Jesse Griffin, Ryk Goddard, John Bolton, Neil Cameron, Justus Neumann and Tania Bosak (to name-drop but a few!), Quinn is just as happy improvising performance pieces or working to structure of script and director. For Terrapin, Quinn has appeared in Con Artists and Boats.

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Jenna Hann
Jenna is a designer, maker and manager of theatre, festivals and events.  She has had more than 10 years experience working for companies such as Is Theatre, Terrapin, Circus Oz, The Lion King (Sydney and London), Walk the Plank (Manchester, UK), Assembly Rooms (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Puppet Lab (Edinburgh), Brunton Theatre (Edinburgh) and the Sydney Olympic Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies.  Jenna completed a post-graduate Diploma in Puppetry at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004, fell in love with Mount Wellington in 2005 and discovered her green thumb in Hobart in 2006.  Since moving to Hobart in 2005 to design, make and perform The Storyteller’s Shadow for Terrapin, she has co-ordinated the Terrapin Puppet Picnic, run numerous puppet making workshops, tour managed for the Amalgamation Festival, made props for Dream Masons, completed a Backspace Winter Residency and stage managed Flip Top Heart for Is Theatre.  Jenna is still passionately pursuing her own art and theatre making practice and studying full time to teach senior secondary art and English.  Her garden is currently flourishing.

Leeroy Hart
Leeroy has been a professional clown for 13 years. Not only has he toured his own solo shows around the world, but has worked with such companies as Circus OZ, Bizircus, Roll'n'Roll Circus, Ooga ooga (Holland), Gosh (Circus Dutch/German), Circus Bologne (French) and was even Fatso the Fat Arsed Wombat (Roy & HG) at the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics. He has MC'd everything from corporate functions to his mate's weddings in Darwin and had numerous television and film appearances and several television commercials. He trained with Phillipe Goulier (France), Angela De Castro (Brazil), Bob Berkey (U.K), Madan Kataria (Laughter Yoga, India) and lotsa circusie folk all over!

Leeroy has also taught and directed community circus groups over the years and taught circus skills and clowning for National Institute of Circus Arts at Swinburne University, Melbourne and assisted teaching clowning at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba. Since moving to Tasmania in June 2007 Leeroy has performed as part of the International Buskers Festival at the Hobart Summer Festival – a return to street theatre which he did for many years before joining the circus. For Terrapin, Leeroy was a deviserof, and performer in Explosion Therapy.

Kate Hill
Kate received a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts in Theatre in 2005 and gained her Honours studying puppetry in 2006 through the University of Tasmania’s School of Visual and Performing Arts (SVPA).  During her Honours year she co-wrote as well as designed, created and directed the Black Light Puppetry piece, What’s under Adam?, an experimental production exploring the infinite scope of a puppet’s search for self.  Katie’s other puppetry experience is as the Puppet Director, Designer and as a Puppeteer in CentrStage’s premiere production of Tis the Season by Tasmanian playwright Michelle Best, in 2007, and also as a Wayang Kulit puppetry designer, creator and operator under the direction of Indonesian Puppet Master, Joko Susilo as part of the 2003 SVPA Graduation Production, UBU: Bush Pig.  Other performance credits include Three River Theatre’s Noises Off, One Day 4’s Could you pass me my ginger beer, please?, CentrStage’s Suffering Fools and the SVPA’s Annie’s Coming Out, Gone Fishing and Fatherland.  Katie has worked as Technical Support at Scotch Oakburn College and as Production Manager with the University’s SVPA.  Later this year she will be performing alongside Theresa O’Connor in the pub theatre show He died with a felafel in his hand at the Hub Bar in Launceston.

JASON JAMES
Jason has worked as a lighting designer creating designs for new works for every professional company in Hobart. He is booked to create designs for all of those companies in 2011/12 including a large scale experimental opera for IHOS in MONA FOMA 2012. Most recently he did the lighting designs for La Casa Di Signori (Salamanca Arts Centre/The Taste Festival:Marisa Mastrocola and Nigel Kellaway, 2010); The Gatekeeper (Terrapin Puppet Theatre, 2010); The Company I Keep (Tasmanian Theatre Company, 2010) and Kimisis (IHOS Music Theatre and Opera, MONA FOMA 2010. During the day he teaches lighting and production management for Salamanca Performing Arts Course in Entertainment.

Robert Jarman
A freelance theatre worker, Robert Jarman is a director, performer, writer, designer and teacher and in 2001 was awarded the Centenary of Federation Medal for services to the performing arts.

Robert has directed and/or performed for all major Tasmanian companies including Salamanca Theatre Company, Is Theatre, Theatre Royal, TasDance, IHOS, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and all Ten Days on the Island Festivals held to date.

Never one to be idle, Robert has also created a series of eight solo shows; the most recent, The Spectre of the Rose, was presented in the 2007 Ten Days on the Island Festival.

For Terrapin, Robert was Co-director with Annette Downs for Blueback, was Dramaturg for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and was the Director of Con Artists.

Mel King
Graduating from Theatre Nepean in 1991 Mel has worked in theatre, film and TV. In theatre Mel has performed with Riverina Theatre Co, Canberra Theatre Co and Siren Theatre Co. Joining Terrapin Puppet Theatre in 1994 Mel has toured nationally and internationally in productions: Freedom of the Heart, Little Red, Yolla, Heroes, Unearthed, The BFG, Frankenstein, Explosion Therapy and most recently Helena and the Journey of the Hello which toured to the Sydney Opera House in 2010.

In 2000 she worked with Henson puppets on the Australian production of Pan and performed in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Sydney Paralympic Games with French Puppet Company Plasticien Volants. In 2003 Mel joined Big Monkey and has been seen in productions of Treasure Island, Robin Hood, Alice in Wonderland and Once a Jolly Swagman. In 2008 she appeared in the Tasmanian Theatre Company’s inaugural production of Bombshells and recently performed in the Australian premiere of Poxed, in collaboration with Ten Days on the Island. She also appeared in Blue Cow Theatre’s 2011 production of Tidal Pools.

Her short film credits include The Promising and Sound Blocks Pain and last year appeared in the feature Arctic Blast. She has puppeteered for TV on Farscape, The Wiggles and The Wiggles Movie as well as TV credits on G.P. and Home and Away. Mel was also part of the successful ABC produced radio series Blogdaddy.

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Rose Kokkoris
Rose Kokkoris is a comedic, physical and cabaret performer who revels in the art of character comedy. She has performed improvised comedy (ImproVice and more recently Danger Academy, Queens Head Hotel), and has performed stand-up and cabaret regularly in the past three years. She was protagonist in the award winning Tropfest Film Dish Communication (2009) and has written a short play Motherly Love which won the Flip Top Heart accolade in 2008. She was a founding member of the Short Back and Sides Show (Taste Festival 08/09 and Falls 09/10, 10/11). She co-hosted Alley Cat Comedy (09/10) and is seen as her alter-ego, Mamma Rosa, at festivals, events, and private functions around Tasmania (Bridport -Ten Days 08, Save The Children- Parliament Lawns 09/10, Taste of The Harvest 09, Italian Festa 09/10, the Taste Festival 10/11) and interstate. When The Pictures Came is Rose's first show with Terrapin.

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Anna Korkmaz
Anna’s love for acting and theatre performance began in Hobart, whilst completing her college years. During this time, she appeared as Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (2001), Lynnette Fromme in the musical Assassins (2002) and Slippy Helen in The Cripple of Inishmaan (2002). In 2003, Anna performed the role of Jo in the Tasmanian-penned Empty Harvest. Presented by the Old Nick Theatre Company and directed by Graham Corry, Empty Harvest enjoyed a successful season at the Peacock Theatre. Following this, Anna spent four years in London, UK, where she attended Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts for a year of acting study. Spurred on by her love of working with children, Anna also gained an International Diploma in Montessori Pedagogy. The prospect of combining both Anna’s passions for theatre performance and children’s entertainment is one that she is truly excited to be involved with. Anna appeared in Terrapin’s production of Con Artists.

Finegan Kruckemeyer
Finegan (30) has had 52 commissioned plays performed on five continents, and was an inaugural recipient of the $160,000 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship.

In 2012, 20 works (including nine premieres) will play worldwide, with seasons in Argentina, Australia (ten works in six states, with two at the Sydney Opera House and three at the Melbourne Arts Centre), China, England (three national tours), Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland – and the United States, at invited programmes New Visions New Voices (JFK Center for the Arts, Washington), New Plays for Young Audiences (New York University), and the IPAY American Showcase (his fourth consecutive IPAY work).

Finegan and his work have received the 2011 Sidney Myer Fellowship, 2010 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, 2010 Best New Work Ruby Award, 2009 Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIE) for Best Children’s Play in Australia, 2009 Mystate Young Tasmanian Artist Award, 2009 Ruby Award For Innovation, 2008 Best Children’s Theatre Playwright Oscart, 2007 Best Playwright Oscart, 2006 Jill Blewett Playwrights Award, and 2002 Colin Thiele Scholarship.

Finegan has spoken at conferences/festivals in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Scotland, Sweden, the UK and the US, with his paper The Taboo of Sadness published. He was one of 21 selected worldwide for the ASSITEJ Next Generation (international group of young leaders in children’s theatre), and sits on Arts Tasmania’s Assistance to Individuals Panel, and Write Local, Play Global’s (an international TYA network) Playwrights Advisory Committee.

Finegan was born in Ireland, and came to Adelaide at eight. In 2004, he moved with his wife Essie to Hobart, Tasmania, from which he now writes for national/international companies. He is committed to making strong and respectful work for children, which acknowledges them as astute audience members outside the plays, and worthy subjects within.

Explanations of his work can be seen at:http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsK/kruckemeyer-finegan.html, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oLiRF-i1KI&feature=related.

Rachel Lang
Rachel Lang is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, in Set and Costume Design. During her time in Sydney she worked for Belvoir Street Theatre, Griffin Theatre, Tuggeranong Theatre (Canberra), SBS television, and was employed as a resident designer for the Australian Museum. Rachel moved to Tasmania in 1998 and during her decade of living in Hobart she has been raising her three beautiful children and studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in painting and installation art. Rachel has maintained her love for theatre working as a designer for Is Theatre, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, IHOS Opera, The Old Nick Theatre, Directions Theatre, Tasmania Performs and the Tasmanian Theatre Company. She has also undertaken the role of Art Director for ‘The Promising’, a short film funded by Screen Tasmania, and aims to continue developing her skills in multi media imagery and film.

stefan le mottee
Stefan studied graphic art at Swinburne in the mid 90’s, and since then has worked as a freelance illustrator, graphic designer and animator. He joined Blue Rocket Productions in 2006 and was Lead Animator on the kid’s TV show, Pixel Pinkie series 1 and 2, as well as the interstitial series, Mega Bites. He also worked with Blue Rocket as a visual artist and animator on the My Place website for the ABC. Stefan occasionally gets the urge to tread the boards; his most notable performance to date was as Begbie in Old Nick’s production of Trainspotting. Stefan has created animations for Terrapin's The Gatekeeper (2010) and Love (2011).

MATT MARKS
Matt studied Creative Arts and Music Composition in Nottingham and Musical Theatre Writing in New York, where he was awarded the Frederic Loewe ASCAP award for Musical Theatre.  Theatre writing credits include: The Jolly Postman for Polka Theatre; The Caretaker for Nottingham Playhouse; Gawain and the Green Knight for New Perspectives Theatre Company; The Wind in the Willows for West Yorkshire Playhouse; The Railway Children for The Peacock Theatre; The Fifteen Streets for Darlington Civic Theatre; The Ugly Duckling for The Crucible, Sheffield; and also numerous other scores for Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout Theatre Company.

Matt composed the score for Maison Foo’s Memoirs of a Biscuit Tin; and dance scores include Retina Springs for Retina Dance Company; First Equation with Rebecca Hart, Black Wings with Cidinha Fursan Bendixen and Long Room with Eunmi Kuk.

Musical collaborations include an upcoming original musical with Nick Wood for Oxfordshire Theatre Company, The Bridge with Liv Cummins (in development in New York), The People Could Fly with Adam Mathias, The Crow and the Pitcher with Tim McCanna and The Egg Factory with Esther Davis.

Film and television credits include The Morris Jelly House of Fashion, Insight in Mind, and Hotel for Channel Four.

Bands include jazz/African trio Kiplefti and The Balkan Express; Matt also arranges and performs music ranging from East European Klezmer to Tango to South African Township Jive and Balinese Monkey Chant.

Matt is a member of The Institute for Crazy Dancing in Leeds and is Associate Practitioner for The Royal Shakespeare Company.

Sam McMahon
Sam McMahon is a comedy, circus, stilt-puppetry and movement performer and creator. He has worked extensively as a performer and workshop tutor in circus, dance, music, sound and theatre, for a wide range of communities throughout Australia. He has a particular passion for working with 'fringe dwellers'.

Sam was part of the original creative team that produced the Slingsby Theatre Company's production of The Tragical Life Of Cheeseboy written by Finegan Kruckemeyer, which has enjoyed great success throughout Australia, most notably at the 2008 ASSITEJ Conference, which led to the 2009 international Festival tour taking in Sydney, Cleveland, Singapore, Madrid, Bath, Glasgow and Edinburgh, where it received much critical acclaim including a 5 star review at the Imaginate Childrens’ Theatre Festival. In 2010 Cheeseboy is appearing at festivals in Australia, New Zealand, Cyprus and Northern Ireland. Sam was also part of the original creative team that produced Terrapin’s production Helena and the Journey of the Hello written by Finegan Kruckemeyer. This production enjoyed a well received opening season at the Peacock Theatre, Hobart in 2008 and went on to tour regional Tasmania in 2009. A season at the Sydney Opera House and a spotlight performance at the Australian Performing Arts Market are the highlights for 2010.

When Sam is not too busy trotting the globe he performs as MC at various events including the Adelaide Fringe’s Gold and The Mini Art Auction and the Post Augusta Fringe Late Night Cabaret season under his Cabaret Character guise 'Lucky Sam'. He also co-produces and performs at a monthly performance night Character Jam, a character comedy cabaret where his most famous character 'Jogger Man' first appeared ('J-Man' has since performed at the YHA Peace Festival and Big Day Out and hosted a weekly arts programme on Fresh FM in Adelaide). Sam has performed with Vitalstatistix and Kurruru (in the critically acclaimed co-production 2nd to None) and has also performed at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and worked as a collaborator and performer with KneeHigh Puppeteers, No Strings Attached – Theatre of Disability, Riverland Youth Theatre, Urban Myth Theatre of Youth and Circidz.

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maxine mellor
Maxine is a 25 year-old award-winning playwright from Caboolture, Queensland who has authored over twenty plays. Since winning her first award at age fifteen, Maxine has steadily built upon her success and has been recognised as one of Queensland’s most promising young playwrights. Maxine has worked as a playwright with such companies and institutions as Queensland Theatre Company, La Boite Theatre Company, Backbone Youth Arts, Queensland University of Technology, NIDA, the University of Tasmania, Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe, dead puppets society, and more. Her work has been published by Playlab Press and the Australian Script Centre, and has been honoured with Queensland’s peak industry award – a Matilda award – for best new independent work for performance. Currently, Maxine enjoys a successful freelance career as a playwright and writing workshop tutor.

Greg MethE
Greg is a designer/maker who completed a Bachelor of Environmental Design at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. Greg moved from architectural projects to theatre-based design and has worked with a range of companies including Salamanca Theatre, Zootango Theatre Company and the State Theatre Company (South Australia). He has been working with Terrapin since the Company's inception in 1981. Greg was a member of the Australia Council's Drama Committee from 1993 to 1996. He chaired the committee and was a member of the Performing Arts Board from 1994 - 1996.

Jeff Michel
Originally from the USA, Jeff trained in New York City with The Michael Howard Studios Summer Acting Conservatory and the School of Russian Art Theatre at Columbia University. In New York, he appeared in the Sydney Theatre Company production of The White Devil. Since moving to Tasmania, he has performed in a variety of shows including Alice in Wonderland and Pinocchio, (Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens), The Wizard of Oz and Beauty and the Beast (Theatre Royal), and at the Hobart Rep with The Wind in the Willows and A Slice of Saturday Night. In 2010 he co-founded The Blue Cow Theatre Company and performed in their inaugural show Art. For Terrapin he has toured Tasmania and Victoria with The Falling Room and the Flying Room, toured Tasmania with The Gatekeeper, and toured Boats the Come Out Festival, the Victorian Arts Centre, New Zealand, Ireland, the USA, Victoria and Sydney.

Melinda Mills-Hope
Melinda has been performing and creating performances professionally for the past 15 years.  She has worked in various roles such as dancer, puppeteer, performer and director in the fields of puppetry, Oriental dance, mixed ability theatre and community theatre/ arts.  Having been belly dancing for 15 years and teaching Egyptian dance for 10 years, Melinda is considered one of Tasmania’s leading exponents in the art of belly dance.   Puppetry has also been a focal point for Melinda since she began working for Terrapin Puppet Theatre in 1995.  Melinda performed and toured with the productions Cool Magic, Filth, Wannabe and The BFG.  Her puppetry experience with Terrapin inspired Melinda to create her own small puppetry works, namely her belly dancing puppet, which have been performed at various festivals within Tasmania and Victoria.  Melinda continues to combine her talents in belly dance, puppetry and performance to create new performance pieces with ensembles Zaghareet and Extended Play.  In April 2008 Melinda presented a puppetry performance with Extended Play at the UNIMA International Puppetry Festival in Perth, WA. 

SEAN MONRO
Famous for his daredevil antics, dashing good looks, and superhero powers, Sean would prefer to be considered a mild-mannered writer with a vivid imagination.

Highlights include the ABC radio script Shiver in the River, Water Daughter with the Griffin Theatre Company, The Art of Penetration and The Upper Hand at Belvoir Street Theatre, Out There at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, and The Present at The Backspace.

In 2010 three of Sean's scripts were read in the Tasmanian Theatre Company's Playreading series. In 2011 Blue Cow Theatre presented Tidal Pools at The Backspace.

Emily Newton
Emily is a performer (comedic, physical and cabaret), MC and musician. Originating from country Victoria, Emily moved to Melbourne to study a Diploma of Arts – Small Companies and Community Theatre. During her time in Melbourne she appeared in The Emperor of Atlantis (Opera, North Melbourne Town Hall), Moomba and The Short and Sweet Festival 2006. She was a founding member of the physical theatre trio ‘The Ladder Co-operative’ who were runners up in 3D Fest ‘04 (CUB Malthouse/ Victoria University). Since moving to Tasmania, Emily has performed in various shows, events and groups: 2nd Echo Ensemble (Tasmanian Theatre Company and Cosmos Recreation), founding member of The Short Back and Side Show (Backspace Theatre, Taste Festival 08/09 and Falls Festival 09/10), Dream Masons (Salamanca Arts Centre/Ten Days on the Island) and The Wind in the Willows and Stepping Out with Hobart Rep. Emily also performs regularly as ‘Madam Goulash’ (Cabaret) at the Alley Cat comedy and cabaret nights in Hobart, various burlesque/cabaret events and private functions both locally and interstate. For Terrapin, Emily has appeared in When the Pictures Came and The Waltzing Tree. 

Theresa O’Connor
Theresa O'Connor received a Bachelor of Performing Arts in Theatre in 1999 from the University of Tasmania, and since then she has worked as a Production and Stage Manager throughout Australia with such companies as Stompin, JUTE Theatre, Tasdance, UTAS, Tasmania Performs, Slipstream Circus, BIGhART, the Darwin Festival and Adelaide Fringe Festival.  In 2005 her second career took flight, when she was winner of is Theatre’s Flip Top Heart Festival, where she created and performed Passion.Little.And.Young with Nicole Jobson. Other performance credits include Three River Theatre’s The Golden Age, Tasdance’s Illuminations3, and most recently Wayne Tunks’ The Bridesmaid Must Die for CentrStage.  2007 brought a graduating performance in Dracula with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, after completing their Internship Program studying the Suzuki Actor Training Method, Butoh Dance Theatre, the Meisner Technique, Viewpoints and Composition.  She has also trained with Vulcana Women’s Circus and Circa in Aerials, focusing on Trapeze and Tissu.  Theresa’s magnetism with physical theatre and puppetry will continue after creating and performing in Remnants, where she will go into phase two of creative development of Silver Strings – Who’s Controlling You?, her own work supported by Mudlark Theatre, Arts Tasmania, Tasmanian Regional Arts, Tasmanian Community Fund and Launceston City Council. 

hanna Pärssinen
Hanna is a puppetry designer and visual artist originally from Finland. She completed her studies in painting and photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam in 1994 and has since been based in Hobart. She trained in puppetry design with Terrapin under the tuition of Greg Methé and has designed, or co-designed with Methé, Terrapin productions such as The BFG (1998), Alice (1999), Blueback (2000), My Sister’s an Alien (2003), The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip (2005) and The Gatekeeper (2010). Hanna designed Colour My World for Is Theatre Ltd in 2002. In 2008 Hanna collaborated with puppetry troupe Hox.Co. in Turku/Finland on an adaptation of Picture of Dorian Gray. Hanna creates multimedia visual art works for exhibitions and on commission. She utilises mediums such as soft sculpture, tent sewing techniques and ice-carving. Hanna has a passion for ice carving. She has carved ice at competitions and events in Finland, Sweden, Japan and Tasmania.

Danny Pettingill
Danny is a Graduate of the VCA Bachelor of Production in 2006. He was the recipient of the 2006 Orloff Family Trust Scholarship Award on completion of his degree, and also has a Diploma of Small Companies and Community Theatre. His design credits include Ashes to Ashes, directed by Sam Strong; the Australian premiere of Mercury Fur in Melbourne and Sydney with Little Death Productions; Chekhov RE-CUT with The Hayloft Project; Pool (No Water) with Red Stitch Actors Theatre; and Production Design for Blood Ballad, a VCA short film written and directed by Mathew Rich which was entered in the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2007. Danny is an Artist in Residence (Lighting Design) with the Hayloft Project and was awarded with a position on the Malthouse Theatre’s Besen Program in 2008.

Laura Purcell
Laura Purcell graduated from the University of Tasmania’s Bachelor of Performing Arts in 1997 and during her professional career has trained, performed and tutored locally with and for companies such as Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Is Theatre Ltd, Tasdance, and nationally with Legs on the Wall and Victorian College of the Arts. Her skills base in live theatre extends from puppetry, physical theatre, costume/set design and construction, improvisational performance to street animation and roving performance. Laura has appeared in a number of Terrapin shows touring locally and internationally, and was most recently in Explosion Therapy. Laura is currently complementing and formalising her repertoire of artistic skills by studying towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Hobart.

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Brett Rogers
Brett Rogers graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in 2009. He has appeared in the feature films Before the Rain and Jimmy Tennison; the short films Love is a Pitch, Entry 251 and Dark Decisions, and a number of commercials. At NIDA, Brett performed in a range of productions directed by some of Australia’s most respected directors, including Kate Cherry, Gale Edwards and Darren Gilshenan. Originally from Tasmania, Brett appeared for companies such as Big Monkey, Hobart Rep and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra before studying at NIDA. For Terrapin, Brett has appeared in the Australian and Victorian regional tours of Boats.

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Shi Lei
Shi Lei is a Costume and Makeup Designer with the Department of Stage Design for the China Welfare Institute Children’s Theatre, Shanghai. She is a Bachelor of Arts in Stage, Costume and Makeup Design from the Shanghai Theater Academy. Prior to her current employment with the Children’s Art Theatre of China, Shi Lei was a Teacher in Makeup Design for the College of Continuing Education at the Shanghai Theater Academy. Shi Lei has designed makeup and costumes for many operas, children’s theatre, youth musicals and burlesque in Shanghai and other cities in China.

Fred Showell (aka Charles Du Cane)
Fred is a composer and performer who has released several CDs under his stage name of Charles Du Cane, including an album written and recorded in India. He has performed at the Falls Festival and Ten Days on the Island.  He recently received funding from Arts Tasmania to record a new album collaborating with Indian musicians.  Fred composed the music and sound design for the successful Terrapin productions Explosion Therapy and The Falling Room and the Flying Room.
www.charlesducane.net

Mikel Simic (aka Mikelangelo)
Mikel Simic has been composing for and performing in professional music, cabaret and theatre productions since 1990. He is the front man and main songwriter of critically acclaimed performance ensemble Mikelangelo & the Black Sea Gentlemen, which he co-founded with Philip Moriarty and David Branson in 2000. The group has toured extensively, nationally and internationally, has released two albums and are currently working on their third. As a solo performer he has toured widely in Australia and internationally with the hit production La Clique, has released one solo album Lost Recordings and has recently created a new cabaret show The Nightingale of the Adriatic which has toured to Adelaide, Melbourne and Edinburgh. He has also composed music for theatre shows The Honeymoon Suite, The Insect Circus (UK), The Adventures of Captain Frodo, Boat of Dreams, The Heart of the Black Sea, The Carnival Goes On and Songs to Illuminate the Dark, and also for the short films of Carnival Cinema, the new Roger Scholes film The Passionate Apprentices and for the book/CD The Floating Islands.

Emma Valente
Emma is a freelance lighting designer, director and production manager. In 2010 Emma is going to Shanghai to lighting design When the Pictures Came; a collaboration between Terrapin Puppet Theatre and the Children’s Art Theatre of China. Emma will also be designing Bare Witness at 45 Downstairs, Waterproof a performance installation at The Melbourne Baths, Cageling at 45 Downstairs and CarriageWorks, Special at La Mama and The Bedroom Project, an installation piece at Linden Gallery. Emma’s most recent lighting design credits include: Manna (Sydney Theatre Company), Perse (Sikic Theatre Company), Here (The Women’s Circus), Special (Development - La Mama), The Lower Depths (Ariette Taylor), Salome- In Cogito Volume III (CarriageWorks), Corvus (CarriageWorks), Olive Branches Out (Cube 37), Ironing Out the Wrinkles (Chapel off Chapel, WA and NT tour), Sunny South/ City Wit (Ballarat Union Theatre), Only the End (Carlton Courthouse) and The Gay and Lesbian Chorus Concert (Camberwell Town Hall). Emma is currently teaching lighting at The National Theatre Drama School and is a member of the Green Room Awards Independent Theatre Panel.

MATT van rooijen
After receiving his Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of South Australia Matt has worked for the last 15 years as an Animator, Concept Artist, Illustrator and in Post Production. Early work included animated presentation for the industrial sector, and medical animation and illustration as a teaching aid for medical students. Matt has screen credits as Animation Director and Story Board Artist for Blue Rocket's TV series Pixel Pinkie, as well as Lead Animator and Animation roles on various other Blue Rocket projects. Other activities include concept art for Ambience Entertainment's Erky Perky TV series. In 2007 Matt collaborated with fellow animator Mauricio Milne-Jones to produce a short film: The Long Beach, which found an audience in several international festivals. Recently Matt has been creating scientific reconstructions of dinosaurs for the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoanthropology, Beijing.

The random wavings of Matt's pixel paintbrush can be found on his blog.

Wang Yaoqi
Wang Yaoqi is a performer with the Children's Art Theatre of China, appearing in When the Pictures Came.

Yaoqi graduated from The East China Sea Art School in 2005, majoring in acting. He has been working as an actor with the Children’s Art Theatre of China for five years and in that time has performed in over 10 shows for children including The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Ugly Princess and Hans.

Lucy Wilson Magnus
Lucy Wilson Magnus is an artist, teacher and producer, with Grad. Dip. in Animateuring at the V.C.A., where she was the recipient of the Barbara Manning Scholarship, and B.A. (Media Studies) from RMIT. She recently devised, designed, performed and produced underwhere as a solo show (Feb 07) which was selected for a spotlight at APAM in 2008; performed in Dream Masons (Salamanca Arts Centre, Ten Days on the Island, March 07); artist in residence at Moorilla Bottling Imagination (Sept–Nov 07); devised & directed Short Sharp Show by the Next Buzz Cosmos Drama (Nov 07); devised & directed Big Last Wall Cosmos Drama (2006); performed in Contemptuous Perplexity (2004); devised & directed manholes (2004 VCA) and Orpheus in the Ironic Room (VCA 2004). As Lucy Who Productions she’s produced Is Theatre’s short performance festival Flip Top Heart (2005-06), iRadio for Telstra (2000-02) and one-man show Chocolate Monkey (Green Room Award nomination for Best Production (2002-3). After seven years as a producer with ABC Radio, she continues work there.

Craig Wood
Craig Wood is a Tasmanian Singer, Composer and Musical Director. Recent credits include Bombshells (Tasmania Theatre Company), The Laramie Project (ACT) and Les Miserables (Tasmania Theatre Unit Trust). He has written scores for two original dance theatre works, Odyssey’s End and Perfectly Secret, various song cycles and incidental music for a range of theatrical productions and concert events. He has performed his songs in venues all over the state, and recently premiered three songs: Westward Sky, C.S.P. and Lullaby for Cassie live on ABC Radio. Craig has had leading roles in Pal Joey, A Class Act, Aspects Of Love and Hydrogen Jukebox (Tasmanian Conservatorium), 15 Years On Hold (Daylight Robbery Theatricals), Singles (Old Nick Company), Songs For A New World (Independent), and Fall Of The House Of Usher, Antigone, Touch Wood (IHOS Music Theatre Laboratory) amongst others. He is Musical Director of The Tasmanian Song Company, who are currently embarking on a regional concert tour, Around The South. He will be seen later this year as Co-Host of The Glenorchy City Carols with ABC’s Andy Muirhead. He can be found online at www.craigmwood.com.

Roz Wren
Roz studied retail display and design and worked as a window dresser at Jaeger and Selfridges in London for 10 years. During that time she designed and made sets, props, jewelry and wild fancy dress costumes for herself and friends. After moving to Hobart she made costumes for Theatre Alfresco's (now Big Monkey) production of Robin Hood in the Botanical Gardens and has subsequently been their principal designer/maker for the past 12 years. In 2000 Roz received an Emerging Theatre Artists grant and was mentored by Greg Methé during her work on Terrapin's production of The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Roz has taught Display and Design at TAFE, has run numerous puppet-making workshops for Terrapin, and has created sets, props, costumes or puppets for many Hobart’s theatre companies. She worked on Salamanca Arts Centre's Dream Masons, was the costume designer for the Tasmanian Theatre Company's Bombshells, and for Terrapin was co-designer of Con Artists, and designer for Explosion Therapy.

Zeng Yi Gang
Zeng Yi Gang is a freelance animator based in Shanghai and engaged in national and international animation creation and production, cartoon advertisements and illustrations for books. He is a Director, Storyboard Animator, Animation & Illustration Designer and Key Pose Animator. From 1990 to 1995, Yi Gang worked for the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, where he worked as an Animator, Key Pose Animator and Assistant Director. As well as the SAFS, Yi Gang has worked for China Central TV, Jilin Animation College, Shanghai Tong Meng Company, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing Forbidden City Film Co and Shanghai Oriental Animation Company, amongst others. Yi Gang has won over 26 international awards for his animations, 16 of which were for The Chicken Wants to Fly.

Zhang Jing
Zhang Jing is a performer with the Children's Art Theatre of China, appearing in When the Pictures Came.

Jing graduated from the Shanghai Theater Academy, and is a Master of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Radio and Television Direction. Jing now works with the Actors Club of China as well as the CATC.

Daniel Zika
Daniel has worked on dance, theatre and festival projects and has collaborated with artists, designers and architects for multi-media exhibitions and presentations around Australia and internationally.  Some of Daniel’s lighting design credits include: Explosion Therapy (Terrapin Puppet Theatre); Beyond the Neck (Argy Bargy/presented by Tasmania Performs); Mercy: a Dance for the Forgotten (Tasdance/Ten Days on the Island); Dream Masons (Salamanca Arts Centre/Ten Days on the Island); The Legend of Ned Kelly (Terrapin Puppet Theatre); Cancelled by Popular Demand (Lambrusco Brothers/Salamanca Arts Centre); Traitors - Green Room Award winner (La Mama/Branch Theatre); Macbeth Exploration (Melbourne Theatre Company); Falling Petals, Svetlana in Slingbacks, Post Felicity and Inside 01 - Green Room Award winner (Playbox Theatre); and Liquid, Red Rain and Quiescence­ - nominations for 2000 and 2001 Green Room Awards. Other collaborations have involved Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Victorian College of the Arts School of Dance, Arena Theatre Company, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Hot House Theatre Company, Polyglot Puppet Theatre, Anthill Theatre, Australian Performing Arts Museum and the RMIT School of Architecture and Design.
www.2b.net.au

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