Artists

Nick has been working with Snuff Puppets since 2006 as a Puppet Designer, Builder, workshop facilitator and Performer. He was Puppet Designer and Builder for our most recent production Everybody. He was the primary designer for Snuff Puppets’ National Gallery of Victoria’s commission of the Albrecht Dürer rhinoceros. In addition to his work with Snuff Puppets, Nick has also worked as Designer/Builder and Senior Crew for The Village Festival, presenting at Edinburgh Gardens, Falls Festivals and Canberra Centenary.

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, 21^st 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.

www.ryanwilliamsrecorder.com

Suzanne Kalk is the artistic director of The Village Festival. The Village Festival is the only traveling multi arts festival in Australia visiting many communities. The festival creates a platform for both emerging and established professional artists, across the broadest range of disciplines and backgrounds.

Suzanne is also a visual artist and theatre maker. She has worked on and off with Snuff Puppets building puppets for 20 years.

In her work Suzanne is committed to creating innovative and exciting arts events and artworks that follow the ideals of inclusion, sharing and community. This often involves combining outstanding art with community activities in ways that make the arts practices more inclusive and uses the arts to create a stronger community.

Daniell has been creating promotional material and puppeteering with Snuff Puppets since 1993. His puppeteering has been seen by millions around the world, including performances at NYC’s Madison Square Garden and London’s O2 Arena. Daniell spent a year in Beijing puppeteering with DreamWorks How To Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular in 2014.  Daniell is currently on leave, whilst undertaking a 2018-19 tour of Europe and Asia with the BBC’s Walking With Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular. Daniell has also enjoyed puppeteering with Sanctum Theatre, A Blanck Canvas, Balooga, The Creature Technology Company, Polyglot Theatre and Theatre of Hell.

ROLES @ SNUFF PUPPETS: Actor, Acting Artistic Director, Artistic Associate, Builder, Board Member, Camera Operator, Company Director, Graphic Designer, Lighting Designer/Operator, Minder, Marketing Manager, Puppeteer, Tour Manager, Secretary, Social Media Poster, Video Editor and Web Master.
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, A Cruel Life, 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

facebook.com/daniellflood

“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

Aidan is an artist and performer who is close to finishing a degree in Communication Design at Swinburne University at the end of 2014. He has been involved with Snuff Puppets as a performer and builder since April2012. He is also involved with the ‘Real Hot Bitches’ 80s Dance Troupe in Melbourne.

SHOWS: Everybody, Wedhus Gembel
ROAMING: Human Body Parts, Nyet Nyet’s Picnic, Bunyips, Cows

In 2009 I filled in for a friend who was working for the Snuff Puppets. He couldn’t make it for a couple of days. They couldn’t get rid of me after that.

SHOWS: Snuff Party, Everybody
ROAMING: Human Body Parts,
WORKSHOPS: Swan Hill, Thailand, Korea, Whittlesea

www.sanctumtheatre.org
www.lachlanplain.com