Zita is a writer, performer and theatre maker who has been working as a seagull, cow, hairy man, giant human, disembodied body part, disembodied inner organ, and as pooh with Snuff Puppets since 2006.
Projects: Various local, regional and interstate festivals including Melbourne International Puppet Festival, Random Acts Festival, Auckland, 2012, Kaohsiung Puppet Festival, Taiwan 2011 and Commonwealth Games Festival.
SHOWS: Snuff Party
ROAMING: Human Body Parts, Boom Family, Seagulls
Puppet Designer/Builder, Workshop Facilitator (PPPs) & Performer, 2006-current.
Creative Development of Snuff Clubb, EveryBody, Human Body Parts, Durer’s Rhinocerus, Snuff Parties.
SHOWS: Wedhus Gembel, Snuff Club, Nyet Nyet’s Picnic, Forest in the Night, Dancing Cow Show
ROAMING: Human Body Parts, Boom Family, Seagulls, Kareem the Elephant
WORKSHOPS: LOHAS Festival, Taiwan; TCAF, Taipei; Herning, Denmark; ComeOut, Adelaide & Whyalla, Art Is…, Horsham; Fairfax Festival, Swan Hill; Mildura-Wentworth Arts Festival; Gertrude St Projection Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Rosalind Hall works with a multitude of sound technologies and instruments such as a modified saxophone, home made instruments, percussion, field recordings and processing software to create soundtrack, live music and performance work. Rosalind performs with local experimental and improvisatory musicians such as David Brown and Jim Denley and releases solo and collaborative work independently and through labels Avant Whatever, Corpus Collosum Records, pan y rosas discos, Swarming Records and EcoSono.
Shows: Everybody, Wedhus Gembel, 21st Birthday Show
Sounds: rosalindhall.bandcamp.com
Ryan is a performer-composer, improviser, teacher and sound designer. Ryan’s passion for the recorder has led him on a journey full of cross-artform collaboration, engaging performance and exciting improvisation.
Ryan studied with Ruth Wilkinson (University of Melbourne), Genevieve Lacey (Australia), Natasha Anderson (Australia/Berlin) and Jorge Isaac (Conservatorium van Amsterdam). Between 2013-15 Ryan recorded and released four albums of original music which includes his first solo album, Wanderings.
Ryan’s major performances include the production of Venus & Adonis with Bell Shakespeare, Everybody with Snuff Puppets and his own work Life As It Should Be with the cross-artform ensemble Any Kind Of Creature (Amsterdam) performed at the Antwerp Fringe Festival and the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Between 2012-14 Ryan was the Artistic Director of the Robert Exiner Recorder Festival in which he designed and implemented recorder workshops in schools as well as produced new performance works.
Jonathan Christopher MacMillan is best known for originating the role of the Goose and Topthorn (head) in the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of War Horse directed by Tom Morris and Marianne Elliott. Previously, Jonathan was Suit Captain of the International Tour of Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular, directed by Scott Farris and produced by Global Creatures. He performed the role of Baby T-Rex in over 30 countries worldwide. Other theatre credits include Sebastian in Twelfth Night, Harry in My Fair Lady, Clouk in Mirette, Waiter in She Loves Me, and the Wolf/Prince in Into the Woods. Jonathan received his BA from USC where he studied theatre and music. Jonathan was most recently seen puppeteering the “White Night Messenger” at the White Night Festival in Melbourne, as well as various insects as part of the “BugLife” exhibition premiering at the Melbourne Museum.
Daniel is a multi-faceted performance artist and creator, with a formation in Fine Art and Cinema Realisation. He is a professional exhibition designer, installer and builder for institutions such as The State Library of Queensland, Museum of Brisbane, and QAGOMA. He has directed Memetica giant puppets at Woodford Folk Festival for the past 2 years and recently co-directed “Love Stinks!” giant puppet theatre for Snuff Puppets in Penang, Malaysia.
Olga is a Spanish multidisciplinary arts practitioner based in Australia. She specialises in Improvisation and Playback Theatre and has worked internationally, performing and teaching theatre processes for self-discovery, growth and empowerment for individuals and communities in Sri Lanka, Spain, Malaysia and Australia. Olga is an experienced Director and creator of site-specific theatre, a visual artist, musician, explorer and instigator of social/collective initiatives. Motivated by a strong inter-cultural curiosity, Olga continues travelling the world, learning, sharing and creating.
Daniell is a Snuff Puppets Company Director and for over 24 years has enjoyed the following roles with the company: Actor, Acting Artistic Director, Artistic Associate, Board Member, Graphic Designer, Lighting Designer/Operator, Marketing Manager, Puppeteer and Tour Manager.
Melbourne’s Creature Technology Company employed Daniell as a suit and animatronic puppeteer on shows for the BBC and Dreamworks. Daniell has also enjoyed puppeteering with Sanctum Theatre, A Blanck Canvas, Polyglot Theatre and Theatre of Hell.
SHOWS: Fool School, Fat For A Good Table, Scarey, Pub Show, Forest, Boom Town, Forest In The Night, The Dancing Cow Show, PPPs, The Cruelty of the Body, Circus Olé, The Twin Towers Show, Nyet Nyet’s Picnic, Snuff Clubb (creative development), Wedhus Gembel, Snuff Party, Everybody.
ROAMING: Skulls, Cows, Butcher, Boom Family, Seagulls, Cruelty Of The Body, Protests, Bunyips, Human Body Parts
WORKSHOPS: Shizuoka World Cup, Singapore International Arts Festival, World Social Forum Brazil, Q-Fest Outback Western Australia, Freespace Fest Hong Kong, Big West Festival
“Come in and make some guts” they said; “kidney, heart, lungs, lower intestine…” Then came the giant cuttlefish, disembodied eyeballs, man-eating monsters, and of course one very handsome medieval Rhinoceros called Albrecht. Since starting in 2007 I’ve had some great opportunities to combine my loves of animals, anatomy, puppets, sculpting and painting.
SHOWS: Snuff Club, Snuff Parties, Everybody
ROAMING: Human Body Parts, Rhinocerous
WORKSHOPS: Taiwan, Mildura & Whyalla
With two decades of dancing in Europe and around the world Stéphane is becoming an old rusty dancer. He performs with Snuff Puppets in:
SHOWS: Forest In The Night, Wedhus Gembel, Everybody, Snuff Clubb, and Snuff Party.
ROAMING: Human Body Parts, Seagulls, Cows, Snail, The Butcher, Boom Family, Nyet Nyets (Stéph’s favourite) and a Bunyip.
WORKSHOPS: Australia, India, Denmark, Korea
