Lauren Redpath

Lauren Ruby Redpath-------

An artist who wants to make the surreal real, Lauren loves the weird and the wonderful, the beauteous and the grotesque. She is a puppet and creature designer and fabricator and gets great enjoyment out of making things for Melbourne's theatre, film and festival industries. Lauren has a Diploma of Stage Management from Holmesglen and a Bachelor of Theatre Production from VCA. In 2013 she was awarded the UNIMA Puppetry Foundation Grant and travelled the ocean to work with Phantom Limb Company in New York. She has worked for large and small companies such as Creature Technology Company, Polyglot, Snuff Puppets, The Village, Garry Ginnivan, Malthouse Theatre and currently creates ridiculous fashun costumes with design partner Sorjeri Tane under the name SexCakeMonster.

https://www.facebook.com/SexCakeMonster

Carly Fern------

Carly Fern is a performer, part-time unicorn and proud member of the radical self-expressionist collective, Awkward/Amazing. An
independent, Melbourne-born, artistic all rounder, with a curious eye, and a discerning heart.
Carly's greatest love is to explore and present new ways of fusing the art of self-expression, with the art of self-healing, both as
participant and facilitator.

http://carly-fern.blogspot.com.au

Alex Gellman-------

Alex is a multi-talented circus and physical theatre performer based in Melbourne. Currently Alex performs with The Porcelain Punch Travelling Medicine Show, playing the character of an escapologist and knife juggler known as; The Great Boy Wonder. His stand out work; Scattered Tacks began in 2009 and won the ‘Most outstanding production’ award at Melbourne Fringe the same year. The three piece physical theatre and circus show toured Australia and Europe, performing in venues such as Brisbane’s Power House, The Garden’s Bosco Theatre and at Noorderzon, a Performing Arts Festival in the Netherlands. During 2010 Scattered Tacks received a Presentation Grant from the City of Melbourne to play at Artshouse’s Meat Market. Alex’s adventures with the circus started at age 6 with Cirkidz in Adelaide. At 16 he became a founding member of the troupe, The Rambutan Circus Collective which was awarded best circus/theatre show by an emerging ensemble in the 2007 Adelaide Fringe festival. In 2008 Alex moved to Melbourne to study circus at the National Institute of Circus Arts where he specialised in Acrobatic Bicycle and Rolla-Bolla. Here he completed a Diploma of circus arts. Alex lives in Melbourne and is really cool.

Cat Scobie-------

Cat is a Jill of all trades extroadinaire, specialising in performing; painting (stencils and murals); writing, concept and development; making and building; Graphic Design and music. Her experiences as one third of the circus / sideshow motorcycle punk rebels troupe Caravan of Dooom have stood her in good stead to do anything in front of anyone with a lot of enthusiasm and varying degrees of terror and finesse. She recently become a Master of Communication Design and has also recently been engaged in building websites, painting cafes, being a fish whisperer and fostering rescue dogs. She is fascinated by death and is relieved to be exploring it through a visual and performative medium.

Annie Pfeiffer--------

Annie Pfeiffer has been working as a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer and performer for over 20 years. Past theatrical works include The Black Lung Theatre's 2007 productions of 'Rubeville' and 'Sugar', and Sample Theatre's 2008 production of 'The Inferno'. Since then Annie has been touring world wide with post-world-core band, The Barons of Tang, as a percussionist, vocalist and banjo player. She is also performing currently with The Family Farm Band, as a solo singer-songwriter and in duet with her partner, Charlotte Melser, using a variety of stringed and percussive instruments.



Anna Gordon----------

Anna Gordon is a saxophone player who writes and performs with internationally acclaimed projects The Barons of Tang and Mangelwurzel. Anna has spent this year so far in Europe busking, playing at machinery expos, playing with German band Kapelle Herrenweide, and playing at funerals, and is currently working on a short film about a musician, writing and performing the soundtrack and acting in the lead role. In her spare time, Anna works as a social worker at one of Melbourne's busiest crisis centres. She brings a broad range of experience in performance and arts, excellent organisational skills and advanced problem solving super powers to her role as stage manager for Post Mortem.



Interview with Anna as a busker (German language)