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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 Periclesem>. 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, designer, writer & graphic designer.
She is the Co-Artistic director of The Rabble. Directing credits include: Three Men in a Bottle by Daniel Keene (Things on Sunday, Malthouse Theatre), 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, director & designer, Melbourne Fringe Festival), one hundred and fifty one days (Writer & director, Melbourne Fringe Festival). Design credits include: Zombie State by Ben Ellis (Melbourne Workers Theatre & Union House Theatre), Manna by Dan Spielman (Wharf2Loud, Sydney Theatre Company), Salome - In Cogito Volume III (The Rabble, CarriageWorks), Corvus by Jasmine Chan (The Rabble, CarriageWorks), Osama the Hero by Dennis Kelly (The Rabble, Old Fitzroy Theatre & Carlton Courthouse), Can’t Leave Tomorrow Alone by Vanessa Rowell (Hoist Theatre Group, Theatreworks), Anorak of Fire by Stephen Dinsdale (Melbourne Fringe Festival & Adelaide Fringe Festival 2006), Lucky by Toby Schmitz (La Mama), Bumping Heads by Brendan Shelper (Next Wave Festival & Dock 11 Berlin).
www.therabble.com.au

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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

Matthew Fargher
Matthew has composed original music for Terrapin Puppet Theatre, 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 worked nationally and internationally since the early 1980s and has been resident in Tasmania for 6 years.

Matthew has worked across a wide range of musical styles and technologies in his 20 years working as a composer. His composition often uses custom designed instruments and manipulated found-sound along side contemporary forms (Hip Hop, Reggae, 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.

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 songwriting 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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Ryk Goddard
Ryk Goddard is a freelance writer, comedian, MC and actor who trained in directing at Victoria University of Wellington and in acting at Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. When he left VCA he formed The Accidental Company that made theatre shows that toured nationally.  At the same time he worked as a comedian, becoming national finalist in Triple J's raw comedy competition.
 
He spent seven years as Artistic Director of the Tasmanian theatre company, Is Theatre, where he directed over 20 productions and transformed the company from schools touring to an adult theatre company with sell out shows, appearing in the prestigious Ten Days on the Island international arts festival.  During this time he worked as a creative consultant to the Bell Shakespeare Company, established a new theatre venue in Hobart and taught thousands of workshops in contemporary performance.  In 2005 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship travelling internationally to study improvised performance with world leading teachers.
 
Some acting credits include Dream Masons (Ten Days Festival 2006) and Wayfarer (Performance Space Sydney 2007).

He is currently running a business consultancy training people in presentation skills and story telling; working as a casual on-air presenter for ABC Local Radio; performing comedy hip hop as Cecil Brown throughout the nation and online; and teaching performance throughout Tasmania.  As a writer he was commissioned by Radio National to create a comedy series Blogdaddy, a 10 part comedy series about fatherhood that aired in August.

www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2008/2341513.htm
www.myspace.com/wayfarerproject
Listen to Cecil Brown

+61447446669
rykgoddard@internode.on.net

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 is currently working as community producer for Big Hart on two productions that will feature as part of The Ten Days on the Island Festival.

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. He has been working with Terrapin Puppet Theatre as a deviser and performer in Explosion Therapy.

Kate Hill
Kate Hill 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.

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
Since graduating from Theatre Nepean in 1991 Mel has worked in theatre film and TV as both an actor and puppeteer. She joined Terrapin in 1994 and has toured both nationally and internationally in many of their productions: Freedom of the Heart, Little Red, Yolla, Heroes, Unearthed, The BFG and Frankenstein. In 2000 she worked with Henson puppets on the Australian production of Pan and also that year performed in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Sydney Para-Olympic Games with French company Plasticien Volants. Since moving to Hobart in 2003 Mel has performed in Big Monkey’s productions of Treasure Island and Robin Hood and will later this year perform in Alice in Wonderland. Most recently she appeared in the Tasmanian Theatre Company’s production of Bombshells. Her short film credits include The Promising and Sound Blocks Pain. She puppeteered on the TV series Farscape, Wiggles TV and the Wiggles Movie. At the moment she can be heard on Thursday mornings on Radio National during Life Matters in a series called Blogdaddy.

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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 (28) has had 35 of his commissioned plays performed around Australia, North America, Asia and Europe, with 19 new works set to have (inter)national seasons to 2011. This year, he writes commissioned works in England, Ireland, China, Hobart, Sydney and Adelaide.

In 2009, The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy (Slingsby) won the 2009 Australian Writers’ Guild (AWGIE) Award for Best Children’s Play in Australia, and was an invited work at the Imaginate Festival (Scotland), Ipay (USA), Teatralia Festivale (Spain), Act 3 Festival (Singapore), the Egg Theatre (England), the Sydney Festival, and the Sydney Opera House.  It came second in the People’s Choice Award (Ipay Showcase, USA), has been picked up for multiple international seasons (including a Broadway season) and is currently being turned into a feature film.

Finegan’s plays have been part of 22 major (inter)national festivals, two State Theatre seasons, and a three-month season with Tim Robbins’ The Actors’ Gang, in LA.  If Only The Lonely Were Home (Tutti Frutti) recently toured England, and three new European commissions are currently being written – an operetta called My Mother Told Me Not To Stare for Theatre Hullabaloo, an adaptation of Pobby and Dingan for Travelling Light (both English), and a one-man show for The Ark in Dublin.

As well as the 2009 AWGIE Award, Finegan received the 2009 Young Tasmanian Artist Award, 2008 Best Childrens’ Theatre Playwright Oscart (…Cheeseboy),2007 Best Playwright Oscart (This Uncharted Hour – Brink Productions), 2006 Jill Blewett Playwrights’ Award, and 2002 Colin Thiele Scholarship.

In 2008, Trouble on Planet Earth (The Border Project) won five major awards, including Best Show: Second Week for the 2008 international Adelaide Fringe Festival – a children’s version of the work is currently in development.

Finegan was one of eight Australian delegates at 2005 World Interplay, and one of 25 worldwide at the ASSITEJ Next Generation Conference.  He was a speaker at the 2008 Take Off Childrens’ Theatre Festival (UK), the 2009 Schäxpir Festival (Austria) and the 2009 Imaginate Festival (Scotland), assisted by Arts Tasmania funding.

Finegan was born in Ireland, and moved with his family to Adelaide at age eight.  His formative experiences in children’s, integrated, community and adult theatre all occurred in South Australia, under a string of important and generous mentors.  In 2004, he moved with his wife Essie to Hobart, Tasmania, from which he now writes for national and international companies.
Full play list: http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsK/kruckemeyer-finegan.html

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.

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, 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, which has enjoyed great success in schools and public seasons throughout South Australia and most recently at the 2008 ASSITEJ Conference, where it received much acclaim from international and national audiences.

Recently Sam has hosted some 2008 Adelaide Fringe special events including Gold and The Mini Art Auction and the Post Augusta Fringe Late Night Cabaret season under his Cabaret Character guise 'Lucky Sam'. In late 2007 Sam performed in the critically acclaimed Vitalstatistix/Kurruru co-production 2nd to None and 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 hosts a weekly arts programme on Fresh FM in Adelaide). In 2005 Sam performed at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival show Music Trivia Quiz, he has also worked as a collaborator and performer with KneeHigh Puppeteers, No Strings Attached – Theatre of Disability, Riverland Youth Theatre, Urban Myth Theatre of Youth, Cirkidz and Kurruru Indigenous Youth Performing Arts.

For five years Sam ran a weekly 'open mic' and performance night at The Exeter Hotel, Adelaide on Sunday nights called 'Sund'y Side Up' and is a freelance performer and workshop tutor in South Australia and interstate.

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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 is a performer and singer who 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 such as Pinocchio, Aladdin and his Magic Lamp and Robin Hood and his Merry Band (Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens), Company (Peacock Theatre), The Boat that Never Was (Wooden Boat Festival), and at the Hobart Rep with The Wind in the Willows and A Slice of Saturday Night.

Jeff performs as a member of the comedy duo The Red Hot Cols and the barbershop quartet, Close Shave. Boats is Jeff’s first production with Terrapin.

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 this year Melinda presented a puppetry performance with Extended Play at the UNIMA International Puppetry Festival in Perth, WA. 

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 has been based in Hobart since 1995 when she began training in puppetry design with Terrapin under the tuition of Greg Methé. She has designed, or co-designed with Greg Methé, Terrapin productions such as The BFG 1998, Alice 1999, Blueback 2000, My Sister’s an Alien 2003 and The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip 2005. 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 utilizes 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 Sweden, Finland, 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 has been awarded a position on the Malthouse Theatre’s Besen Program later 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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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 production Explosion Therapy.
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.

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 (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.

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.
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