Andy Jans-Brown is a prolific singer songwriter. Like Sysiphus condemed to push a rock up the mountain, so too is Andy absurd in his unrelenting creative process. Andy holds a Bachelor of Contemporary Music from Southern Cross University, (Majoring in Composition). Andy also studied Acting full time at the renowned NIDA, (Dip in Acting Course at The National Institute of Dramatic Art) along side Australian legends like Essie Davis, Cate Blanchette, Mathew Dyktinski, Simon Bossell and Anthony Simcoe. In the past ten years Andy has toured extensively both in Australia and abroad. He has opened the show for Nick Cave and the bad seeds fronting his then Sydney band 'iris'. He has had his songs played on national radio triple j and interviewed by Rosie Beaton. He had his film clip broadcast on rage. In Paris he performed at the fnac store Australia music week promotion on the same bill as Tina Arena.. "Despite Everything", one of Andy's many compositions has been used in season 3, episode 1 of the Foxtel Showtime series, 'Satisfaction'. Andy’s acting background has meant he has been able to play roles for such iconic Australian TV series as, ‘Blue Heelers’, and perform in the main cast of the NORPA community theatre musical, ‘The Flood’, and he has worked as the Musical Director for The Torch Project’s ‘The Con’ in community development and more recently he has co-written and composed the musical theatre piece, ‘Escape from Worryville’, a ‘Full On’ and ‘Zeal theatre’ collaboration, which is currently touring Victorian High Schools. Andy was also one of the lead artists employed to work extensively with Primary and high school students whose lives were affected by the devastating Victorian Bushfires, through a partnership between The Royal Children’s Hospital and Berry Street. Andy continues to be involved in arts and community in a meaningful way, always looking for new ways to express his vision.
Aviva Endean graduated from the VCA in 2007 and received the Lionel Gell Merit award which she used to pursue study in contemporary music performance and creative improvisation in Montreal and Vancouver. She has collaborated on projects with dancers, sound designers, 'world' and chamber music groups and theatre companies, A is for Atlas and Sanctum Theatre. She is a dedicated performer of new music and has commissioned and premiered both solo and chamber music work. In 2009 she formed Mamushka, a 5 piece band playing her original compositions and Quiver-new music group who present concerts of both obscure and classic contemporary chamber music. Last Updated (Monday, 17 August 2009 07:50)
Carmen Reid graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) with Honours in
2009. Her multidisciplinary practice is motivated by the expression of
movement, tensions between physical states and mental concepts and an
attraction to storytelling. Carmen has exhibited widely, received commissions
and worked on art production. In 2010 she was awarded the Williamstown
Contemporary Art Prize and an Australia Council Artstart Grant.
Christos Linou is a choreographer and filmmaker who graduated in Dance at the Adelaide Centre for Performing Arts in 1987. He has worked in, dance, theatre, opera, new media arts, film, TV and community theatre for over 20 years and prefers issue based contemporary theatre which integrates performance, literature, visual imagery and voice with new and traditional technologies. He started to devise, directed and perform his own hybrid works using dance theatre and super 8 film projections, he developed an interest in how filmmaking could be applied to live theatre. His works include; Artistic Director for the 2010 Williamstown and 2009 Greek Antipodes Festivals. He formed LABLAB in 2007, where he staged the work Medea, and went on to perform an expert in New York at the Bess Arts Studio in 2010. He co-founded Intertextual Bodies in 1998 with Visual Artist Robert Mangion and produced four art installations with the work Act of Refusing to Dance produced for the 2003 Melbourne International Arts Festival. He has toured a one man shows ‘Amphibitios’ to the Singapore, Adelaide and Hobart Fringe Festivals. Fiddle De Die and Sultana to Sydney, Hobart, Adelaide Fringe Festivals . He is the choreographer for IHOS Opera with works, The Barbarians SLIP, To Traverse Water and Days and Nights with Christ. He was the Director of The Rice Project as part of The Victorian Arts Centre Full Tilt program in 2007. He has acted as an artistic advisor and consultant for artists, government and community bodies and has been a funding panel advisor for Arts Victoria from 2005 – 2009. He was the choreographer for the award winning TV series Short Cuts. He has performed with One Extra Dance Theatre, Mixed Company, LA Mamma, Dancehouse, Tonnel Group Amsterdam, Moving Lines, Stamping Ground, and Bordering on Dance projects. In 1999, he was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts choreographic residency, exploring cross-cultural dance and contemporary art practices. He has been the artistic director on street parade floats for the Sydney Mardi-Gra, with nominations for the best small float and winner of best small float in 1998 and his experimental dance on films and animations, have been screened in Australia, Canada and Tawian.
Burke originally trained in Theatre and Theatre Design at Rusden, followed by studies in Fine Art and also Textile Design at RMIT. She has practiced as a teacher, visual artist, arts events producer, curator, actor, director, script-writer, puppeteer, designer/maker of: theatre sets, costumes, puppets and props. She has also designs and makes fashion, jewelery, furniture and textiles. Burke has worked with Melbourne Fringe, The L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Melbourne Museum and the Melbourne International Arts Festival. She has completed numerous public art projects working with students from Primary to Tertiary across Melbourne. Burke received an Arts Victoria Grant in 2008 to design and build a wooden ship and steel fish sculpture in the grounds of a school. They will be used as play equipment and as an outdoor classroom. In 2009 she received a grant through the Australia Thailand Institute to devise a production in Thailand on the theme of Mail Order Brides.
Dave Houston has been creating theatre and performing since 1987. He is an actor, musician, writer and teacher who studied acting at the Victorian College of the Arts, Australia. He has toured 4 international shows incluidng his solo show Going My Way? to Edinburgh. His improvisational work has been on radio film and television. He tours with Zeal Theatre and comic percussion trio The Bongo Brothers. Recently he wrote and directed The Con for the Torch company. He is committed to Indigenous justice and quality performances. www.fullon.biz
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| Fleur Dean is a founding member of Big hART - one of Australia's highest producing and most critically acclaimed arts and social change organisations, creating new works with unusually inspiring communities and individuals. From Big ART’s inception1992, Fleur, with playwright Scott Rankin, facilitated and toured various shows throughout Australia til 1998, Fleur performed in Fringe Festival Award-winning shows such asThe Now Hour (2004) and Bremen (2005) in which she pulled out her puppet-construction, puppetry, hip-hop dancing, singing and ukulele skills as an offering to the cause. She has toured Theatre-in-Ed shows such as The Sustainables and Le Petit Prince throughout Victoria. Fleur lived in Africa and The Seychelles Islands earlier in her life wherein she experienced sufficiently riveting human-behaviour to provide subject matter for her animateuring teeth to chew on for possibly the rest of her working life. Her first foray into this subject matter occurred in last year’s Fringe Festival showPINNED, which she wrote, devised, produced and performed. Fleur has a background in dance, abseiling from buildings, stilt-walking, trained with the New York SITI Company in Suzuki/Viewpoints technique, Leisa Shelton in Corporeal Mime, John McManus and Dawn Langman in Checkhov improvisation and speech formation. |
Greg has been involved in the arts for the last 26 years. Starting out at high school as the A.V operator for school films and dances.
Music, dance & theatre has seen him work in such places ranging from The Peoples Republic of Brunswick, Footscray, Europe & Asia.
His most recient production has been the strange world of Harrold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" for the Melb Theatre Co and a reciently shot tele drama to go to air latter this year.
Greg goes train spotting when he is not preforming.
Iris Radovic was born in Sarajevo and migrated to Australia in 1995. Since, she has completed a BA in Applied Theatre at Griffith University and a Post Graduate in puppetry at Victorian College of the Arts. Iris has worked with companies like The Cyclowns Travelling Circus (Thailand), Woodford Theatre Company, Terrapin Puppet Theatre (Tas) and Sanctum Theatre (Vic) on numerous shadow puppetry, puppetry, sculpture, and physical theatre productions.Iris is currently studying Audio Production and finally becoming a rock-star.
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Jasmine is completing her Masters of Social Work at RMIT and has a Certificate in Holistic Therapy. She worked as Festival Coordinator, Kew Community Festival (2006 & 2007) and as Assistant Producer, Fringe Furniture & Spontaneous Construction, Melbourne Fringe Festival (2004). She is a Graduate Bachelor of Creative Arts (2003), The University of Melbourne, and volunteered as Co-producer for its Crunch Productions, (2002). Jasmine Co-produced Yemaraki Arts, Montsalvat (2000-2002). She has been involved in Sanctum Theatre since its inception in publicity, front-of-house, performing and as host. Jasmine recently ‘got Snuffed’ and renewed her vowels with Lachlan Plain on their first wedding anniversary dressed in a two-person poo puppet at the Snuff Puppet’s Party #3 (2011). She hopes to make it out of this mad world alive.
Jonathan Drews completed studies in Architecture, Percussion and Art History at the University of Melbourne and has since worked in Melbourne as an Architect and freelance percussionist. In an inevitable collision between his interests as a percussionist, designer and builder, Jon now runs his own Melbourne-based business as a professional maker and tuner of orchestral Marimbas and Xylophones.
He has collaborated as both a sound artist and percussionist with members of Sanctum theatre since 1999. His work in sound design explores the nexus between place, memory and belonging, creating fictitious and intimate sound environments using audience interaction, live performance and realtime signal processing.
His career has involved working with a wide range of established and emerging performance artists, musicians, dancers and film makers in Melbourne, Berlin and Galway, including recent collaborations with Astra chamber music society, Plum ensemble, Johnny Saw Horses and Underpass (Berlin). Recent projects with Sanctum Theatre include an interactive sound installation for the exhibition Silent Revolution (2007), a live 8-channel sound matrix performance for The Plains: a play (2008), live music for Wealth of Nations (2009) and Corpus Christi (2005), acting and live music for Bower: family portrait (2009).
While not busy making or tuning Marimbas, designing sound installations or performing in clandestine art happenings around Melbourne, Jon has been known to have soft spots for playing the accordion and earth building projects in such exotic countries as Canada and France.
Jonathan Drews - Marimba maker & tuner: www.marimbas.com.au
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Allen is director and executive producer of Micronite Film Productions. Micronite has produced commercials for India, Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, The Philippines and the Middle East. Micronite also pioneered the NERO precision engineered motion control rig which has completed SFX sequences for the feature films: Queen of the Damned (Warner Bros, USA); Anna and the King (20th Century Fox, UK and USA); Entrapment (20th Century Fox, UK); also supplying components for the Magic Picture Co. (London); the TV Series Farscape (Henson Creature Workshop, UK) The min-series Noah’s Ark (Hallmark, USA) and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Warner Bros. USA). Micronite’s work has been recognized locally and internationally, winning Gold at the ACS Awards (Vic) and at the International Tourism Awards for Garuda Beyond Bali TVC’s for Cinematography and Special Effects, Gold at the Mobius Awards (USA) for Mr Donut Pie TVC, Silver at the ACS Awards (Vic) for Shell NZ Invasion TVC for Animation and was a finalist at Cannes for Nando's Chicken Store TVC.
www.micronite.com.au
Kirri Buchler has been a working musician in Melbourne for the last 9 years, and has
been a violinist in several bands during this time, playing in various styles such as Jazz,
Rock, Art, Modern Classical, Free Improv, Gypsy, Swing and Tango. After discovering
a love of the world of audio-visual relationships mainly through collaboratively
composing live and partially improvised score for theatre and silent film, Kirri has
undertaken a “Sound Art” degree at RMIT University where she is specializing in Sound
Design.
She is now frantically learning the double bass, which not only 20 times larger than a
violin, but also strung backwards.
She is delighted to be a part of this event at Monsalvat.
As artistic director of Sanctum Theatre Lachlan has directed and designed Lament: candles & compost (2006) and The Plains: a play (2008). He has also puppeteered and performed in both The Legend of Ned Kelly, Festival Centre, Adelaide, and the Arts Centre Melb (2007); and also in The Human Layer, winner of the Melbourne Fringe Visionary Award (2005). Collaborated on design for The Now Hour, also winner of the visionary award (2004). Written two plays including Fish out of Water in collaboration with Fenn Bailey, selected for the Next Wave Young Playwrights’ Competition (1994) and Prospect, performed at La Mama (2003). Has exhibited in various group exhibitions and one solo, including paintings, installation and land art and completed several commercial murals. Completed a post-graduate diploma in puppetry at the VCA (2005) and has completed a Masters of Theatre Practice, also at the VCA.
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Louise O’Dwyer: Louise trained in the Michael Chekhov technique for three years under Dawn Langman and then in New York at the MICHA festival which she was awarded a scholarship to attend in 2009. Her theatre credits include Lady Muck, a one person show in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival; Wealth of Nations and flight as part of Sanctum’s Zero Projects 2009 season; Bremen, an award-winning Melbourne fringe festival show; Bold Girls at Chapel off Chapel; Antigone with The Hoist Theatre Company at fortyfivedownstairs; This Distracted Globe, an adaptation of Hamlet at La Mama; The Proposal by Anton Chekhov; The Passion Play and Medea. Film credits include Mortal, Hotel Sorrento, Angel Baby, Remember My Name and Exmas. Louise has also studied voice extensively with Dawn Langman, Susan Banford-Caleo and Sharon Thompson and is a singer-songwriter-guitarist, having played gigs in Melbourne, Sydney and Spain.
Melissa Osborne is a Melbourne based painter who has completed her studies in Fine Art at Queensland University of Technology, and at Deakin University. During 2004 – 2006 she lived and exhibited in Osaka, Japan. In February 2012 she will travel to Beijing, China to undergo a 6 week painting residency, as well as participate in a TATE turbinegeneration project that internationally links schools, galleries and artists through contemporary art.
Melissa's work has a strong sense of collage that refers to popular culture, advertising and other images of saturation found in contemporary society. Her work concentrates mainly on painting in oil and acrylic, but also moves across mediums into drawing and calligraphy ink. She has participated in numerous group and solo shows in Melbourne since completing her degree in 2009.
michael chalk has recently performed with a couple of choirs including first chorus band of singers. Plenty of theatre way back in the past, including a show at la mama. Mostly works in Adult Community Education (ACE). Writes about local stuff at http://michalk.id.au/5x5/
Nikki works as a freelance cinematographer, editor and producer through Blue Canoe Films. She forayed into short film as director of photography in 2009 and has worked on a number of quirky and at times, rather odd short films since. Her first taste of directing was “Lullaby” in 2009, produced for the 48 hour film project and entered the comp again in 2011 with “The Essence of Katya”.
I like to make things. Sometimes with papar and scissors, sometimes with a sound recorder and sometimes with my own body and voice. My mode of expression depends on my mood which fluctuates between extroversion (body and voice) and introversion (paper and scissors). I graduated from the VCA in 2008 with a Post Grad Diploma in Animateuring which is a fancy name for theatre making. I trained in acting in New York but decided that being a poor but passionate theatre maker was much more appealing. I'm particularly drawn to physical, surreal interpretations of human relationships.
As actor, performer and director Peter has been creating his own projects under the umbrella of The Tar Pit since 2007. His work has achieved a dedicated audience, critical praise and recognition nationally and internationally for its unique hybridization of eclectic forms such as performance art, traditional and experimental styles of music and theatrical forms to create performances considered a genre unto themselves. His projects of note from The Tar Pit thus far include: Performance based storytelling band Pete and the Tar Gang (ACMI Melb. 2010, Garden Of Unearthly Delights at Adelaide Fringe 2010, Brisbane Festivals 2009, Melbourne Fringe 2008, Fed Square Melb. 2008, The Village at Edinburgh Gardens 2007/’08); Beast of Hoof and Trunk and Elephant at the Station (Flinders Street Station’s legendary ballroom, Next Wave Festival 2009 – ’10); Four Rogues, Next Wave Festival, Artshouse 08.
www.thetarpit.com.au
Sam Downing has spent many years educating young people in English as a second language and producing Pitchfork school garden projects. Sam most enjoys taking people out to experience and interact with new environments. Her new responsibilities as border agent are introducing her to the joys of absolute power. She likes that when she tells people what to do, they listen.
La Bande di Sandro, led by Sandro Donati, plays an eclectic repertoire of music influenced by the music of the Carribean, New Orleans and the islands within the Gulf of Mexico. More recently, through their Progjet Friul recordings and performance, the band has introduced into their repertoire the folk music and villotte of Sandro’s birthplace, Fruili, a northeast region of Italy bordering Austria and Slovenia. With its own language, Furlan, and culture, Friuli has a rich tradition of village folk songs dealing with time old aspects of family, life, love and war. Within the songs there is a tone of rascality and healthy disrespect for authority that permeates village life. Progjet Friul is described by Ivano Ercole for Rete Italia as “…e veramente un gioiello [truly a jewell]” and by musicologist, Dr. Aline Scott-Maxwell, as, “...having deep integrity and as a work of great originality...” The score for The Ferryman was recorded Wild Dog Recording and Project Studio established by Donati and his wife, Judy Jacques, in the hills of St. Andrews.
www.wilddoghill.com.au
Tim Ratcliffe (as THE FERRYMAN): Ratcliffe’s work with Sanctum Theatre has involved co-directing, co-producing and performing in Wealth of Nations (2009); performing in The Plains: a play (2008); and production managing and performing in Lament: candles & compost (2006). He has also worked with the National Trust to develop and perform in the Watchhouse Experience (2006 – 2010). His other live performance experience includes The Sustainables (2007 & 2008); O.P.E. Roving (2007); and the Snuff Puppets (2006). His film and television experience include The Caterer (film, 2007); Arthur and Rose (film, 2007); KICK (SBS, 2007). In that time he has also directed and/or production managed The Cameos (The Old Melbourne Gaol 2009); Dream Theatre (Audio Visual 2009); Note to Herself (W.I.R.E 2007); Short and Sweet (2006); Platform Youth Theatre (2006); Pictures at an Inquisition (Theatre Works 2006); True West (Chapel off Chapel 2006); The Sustainables (2006); Point Nepean Jazz Nights (2006). His education and training includes a Post Grad Diploma in Events/Production Management at the VCA (2005); with John Bolton (2000) & Phillip Gaullier (1999); Associate Diploma, Theatre Technology and Performing Arts, N.M.C.O.T (1992 –1994). Ratcliffe is director of Fenestra Productions http://
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Zoe Deverick was hatched from an egg in Kiwi land where she ascended through the ranks of thesbianhood to become the crowned Queen Of All New Zealand. She quickly graduated to Mebourne, Australia, where, disqualified from the Supreme Goddess Of All Australia Competition for having a retarded accent, she found herself down on her luck and forced to serve soup at the Wealth of Nations kitchen for Sanctum Theatre. This really turned out the be the best thing ever and she has never looked back since.
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