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naomi edwards
Naomi has worked in a wide variety of contexts as a director, teacher and performer. She studied performing arts, psychology and teaching at Deakin University's Rusden campus in Melbourne, Australia, and graduated in 1997. It was here she discovered her love of directing. She created performances for Village
Roadshow, Disney, student theatre and various corporate organisations. She worked a great deal with Stonnington Theatre Company in a variety of capacities, most notably directing
Medea, performing the title role in Mother Courage and Her
Children, and in 2001, co-directed and played Beatrice in a sell-out season of
Much Ado About Nothing.
After returning to Australia from Japan in 1999, Naomi began Swarm Theatre, created her 1999 Melbourne Fringe Show
Closet, and ran performance making workshops. In 2000, she was awarded the Youth Performing Arts Australia Mentorship for Directing, providing her the opportunity to work with Kirsten von
Bibra, Kim Durban and Peter Houghton at the Melbourne Theatre Company,
Playbox, Hothouse Theatre and National Theatre Drama School. She also worked with Upstart Theatre at Prahran Mission, directed several community events and taught at St Martins, the National Theatre and in schools.
In 2001, Naomi became the Head of Drama at the Islington Arts and Media School in London. She directed
Saving Anne, a new American musical in the Musical Futures Festival at Greenwich Theatre in London. The following year she went to New York to develop the show for Performance Network in Michigan, and also directed
Tangled Up in Blue Off Broadway.
In 2003, Naomi returned to Australia and completed a Graduate Diploma in Dramatic Art in Directing at the Victorian College of the Arts. There she directed Maria Irene Fornes’ compelling piece
Mud as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. She went on to numerous other projects including a Freud project with Brian Lipson and Debra Conway, and
Breaker Morant for Mentone Boys Grammar.
In 2004,
Naomi returned to the UK, and begun Rambunctious Industries with writer and dramaturg Megan Price. Together they ran an acting ensemble called Agoraphobics Clinic
as part of the RADA Graduate program, and also developed a new show:
TRASH. While in the UK, Naomi also taught on a gifted and
talented program at Lyric Hammersmith and was part of the Young Vic Young Directors program in London.
She has worked extensively on script development with writers both in the US and UK. Having
returned to Melbourne in 2005 to direct the Melbourne Fringe Festival
season of TRASH and assistant direct on Melbourne International
Festival play Bergenstrasse 19, Naomi is currently teaching at
the VCA Summer program, and directing and co-developing a new work
The Sustainables. She directed People's Choice winning play
A Black Cat Kinda Day in the Short and Sweet Festival at the
Victorian Arts Centre late in 2005.
With a passion for classical text, physical and musical theatre, Naomi’s motivation to direct comes from the joy of the creative process and to bring out the creativity in others.
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megan price
Megan has been in love with theatre her
entire life. Combining her love of theatre and literature she has
been following the role of dramaturg and writer whilst co-directing
Rambunctious Industries.
She has had production
experience in both Australia and the UK in roles as varied as director,
stage manager, dramaturg, publicist, production manager and properties
and costume management.
Megan believes in
unrestrained and rambunctious theatre, and highlights in her theatrical
career to date have been directing Much Ado About Nothing with
Stonnington Theatre Company in Melbourne (2001), dramaturg on the
experimental Hamlet: Definition with Swarm Productions in
Melbourne (2001), conceiving and co-ordinating the New Works series of
performances with Stonnington Theatre Company, supporting new writing
for theatre in Melbourne.
Megan is currently
working as dramaturg and co-creator on TRASH, co-writer on Oedipus
DNA and dramaturg on Agoraphobics Clinic with Rambunctious
Industries. She is also writing her first novel, and is based in
Melbourne, Australia.
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associate artists
ben hillyard
Ben is
a London-based composer, musician and teaching artist, currently living
and working in Melbourne, Australia.
His specialty is bass guitar and double bass.
He is the composer and musical director of the new cabaret musical
TRASH with
Rambunctious Industries.
Ben has
a history of music performance and composition from an early age.
His previous credits include everything from jazz to rock to
orchestral to Latin to musicals, and everything in between.
He
has played with countless groups and artists in London, including the
Jezebel Sextet (jazz and funk band, also composing), Annalie Wilson Trio
(quirky, original pop), Parapar (an Indian/Western
ensemble, who Ben toured India and Bangladesh with in April 2005), Latin pop band L.Rey and accompanies London-based acoustic singer-songwriter Ellen
Turner. Just to name a few.
Ben
has also tutored, accompanied and composed for Islington Youth Theatre and
has run many music workshops in schools in London.
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wes
snelling
Wes Snelling, Cabaret Man Diva, butterflied his way into the world of Comedy and Cabaret, starring as the charismatic front man of
The Pot and the Kettle - A Cabaret of Conflict (Melbourne Fringe
2000/Midsumma 2001). Since then, he has written, produced and starred in a series of modern Cabaret/Comedy events. To name a few, he delighted us with
Extravaganza! Beyond Burlesque (Black Box, Vic Arts Centre, Melbourne Fringe 2001), charmed us with
More Me, Less You (Melbourne Town Hall, MICF 2002), challenged all senses with his Jazz Trio (The Ripe
Orchestrals) in Man Diva (The Kitten Club, Melbourne, 2002), and overwhelmed us with talent in
FLING! (Hi Fi Bar and Ballroom Melbourne, 2004).
Wes has played MC, host, and general crowd pleaser to many colourful and extravagant events including Melbourne Fringe Fashion 2002,
Shimmy Shimmy Bang Bang (with Underbelly Dance and Melbourne Fringe, 2002). Wes has cavorted with the likes of The Spinning Wheel
(MICF 2000/2001/2002), Whodunnit Live to Air Radio Plays (RRR, Melbourne Fringe 2002), Comedy Bites (ABC Radio Live to Air Broadcast, MICF 2001), Melbourne International Comedy Festival Barry Awards 2002, and in 2003 was invited to perform at the Seoul Festival Opening. Wes has also worked as an Assistant Director with the
"Bollywood" Indian Film Industry and as a Host and Adjudicator for the 2004 MICF Class Clowns ACT and NT Finals.
Most recently, Wes has been busy writing and performing with the
Melbourne International Comedy Festival (April 2005): Wes Snelling
(featuring MOJO) in Geisha La La, and co-hosting Superstar
Karaoke with Kim Hope at the Hi Fi Bar and Ballroom.
Wes starred in the 'travel-tastic' TRASH with
Rambunctious Industries for the Melbourne Fringe Festival in October
2005. He can be seen performing in Melbourne throughout the year.
Wes Snelling is the essence of modern cabaret, combining music, comedy, and bawd to leave you with no option but to have a ball. "...a wicked sense of comic timing" The Age, Australia. "Excellent voice...heaps of panache" Stage Left, Australia. |
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