CAST
ASMIN. Asmida Aslan is a Turkish-Kurdish refugee residing in Australia. While born into a family of mathematicians, Asmida has always had a deep fondness and fascination for the arts and performance taking drama classes in Turkey from a young age. Since moving to Australia, Asmida has been involved in school productions at Brunswick South Primary School and is a current performance student at ‘House of Muchness’.
ADA. Ada Williams Kriegler has been involved in performances from when she was tiny, making shows in the lounge room with piles of puppets and a handful of handmade tickets. She has been involved in two Lemony S Puppet Theatre shows in the past, lending her voice to Rosie Podge from ‘Rosie Pogde, the Alien That Saved the Day’ as well as the child voice-overs in ‘Picasso and His Dog’. She has also performed in numerous Chamber Made community shows at The Venny as well as a Chamber Made creative development showing. She was a performance student at ‘House of Muchness’ for many years where she has performed and created many theatrical performances. Recently she played Ariel in ‘The Tempest’ for Princes Hill Secondary College.
LADY BYRON/MOTHER. Fiona Macleod is a performer, voice artist, audio book narrator, facilitator, corporate actor and arts publicist. In her 30 year career Fiona has had numerous roles across stage, film and TV, and she co-founded The Other Tongue Theatre Company with writer Jane Bodie and toured extensively. Fiona has trained with Alec Rubin at the Actors Studio and Jack Walzer in London. Her theatre roles in 'The City' and 'Construction Of The Human Heart' have earned her Green Room Award nominations for best actress. Film credits include NOISE (AFI Award winner), TV credits include UTOPIA, 5 BEDROOMS, BACK IN VERY SMALL BUSINESS, WENTWORTH, OFFSPRING, 7 TYPES OF AMBIGUITY, LAID, PAPER GIANTS 2, FRONTLINE and MISS FISHERS MURDER MYSTERIES.
BROTHER/CHARLES BABBAGE. Oz Malik is Film/stage actor born in Melbourne, Australia. His acting experience was cultivated at the National theatre of Victoria, The Australia Film & Television Academy and Brave studios. Oz Malik has been a theatre and screen actor who has been involved in stage shows, short films, campaigns, TV, voice over works,
CREATIVES
Sarah Kriegler - Co writer & Co Director
Deniz Aslan. CO-WRITER, MATHS & CULTURAL CONSULTANT. Bilge is a Turkish refugee living with her family in Australia. Before the current regime in Turkey, Bilge worked as a mathematician and maths teacher for gifted students. During the 2016 crack down on academics, teachers and artists and further fuelled by her husband’s Kurdish heritage and her involvement in the union movement, Bilge was forced to flee Turkey and seek asylum in Australia. Bilge works as a private maths tutor and as a maths educator for Kumon as well as studying English.
Tamara Rewse DESIGNER. Tamara has worked as a director, puppeteer/puppetmaker, singer and performer in puppet and visual theatre since 1997. As a performer and puppeteer Tamara has worked for some of Australia's leading companies creating theatre for young audiences. Most recently these include Lemony S Theatre (Picasso and His Dog, Taking the Waters), Everybody Now (The Inaugural Annual Dance Affair), Arena Theatre Company (Mr. Freezy), Black Hole Theatre (COOP) and is a lead artist at Polyglot Theatre (Tangle, We Built this City and City of Riddles, Tangle Weave, Forest Feast, Mungari Wilcha, First on the Ladder). For over 10 years Tamara has worked for Windmill Theatre making all of their puppets and assisting as a puppetry director, (BEEP, GRUG & GRUG and the Rainbow, Pinocchio, School Dance, Escape to Peligro Island) and performing in many of their most popular shows. (BEEP, GRUG & GRUG and the Rainbow.) She has more recently been working as rehearsal director for the remounting of many of their touring shows notably the 10 year anniversary of GRUG. Tamara is a core founding member of the award winning object puppetry group Men of Steel (Hard Rubbish & Men of Steel), voted 2007 Top 7 shows for Children-Time Out UK & 2006 Melbourne Comedy Festival Directors Award. Her skills also include making props and puppets for film, television and theatre. Film and Television Credits include: The Chronicles of Narnia – Voyage of the Dawn Treader(2009), Fury Road (2010), Eye of the Storm(2010) and Elephant Princess(2009)
Meena Shamaly COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER. Meena is a composer, musician, poet, and radio presenter. As a composer, his work centres around creating music for stories, through the mediums of film, video games, and theatre. As a songwriter and poet, he tells stories of hope, justice, faith, and reasons to love and laugh. He also collaborates with other poets and songwriters in creating stories together, and helps produce and arrange their work to highlight all the best aspects of their art. Meena is one of the creative producers of Slamalamadingdong, Melbourne’s premier poetry slam. He runs workshops in poetry and music, since he is as passionate about igniting and providing space for the creativity of others as he is about creating his own art. Additionally, Meena is the host of the Game Show on ABC Classic FM, where he presents and speaks on the diverse and beautiful music of video games each week to a national Australian (and online global) audience.
Bronwyn Pringle is a Lighting Designer and Theatre Maker based in Melbourne/Naarm. She has worked around Australia with companies such as Pop up Playground, NICA, ArtPlay, MTC, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Australian Theatre of the Deaf, Arts Projects Australia, Anna Seymour and Collaborators, Black Hole Theatre, JoltArts, Outback Theatre for Young People, Chamber Made, Marruk Marruk and more, working across all genres of performance, on projects ranging from large festivals to community engagement to small developmental pieces in venues that include The Princess Theatre, a London West End Nightclub, Falls Festival in Lorne, a warehouse in Buenos Aires, the Federation Square air-conditioning ducts, The Segerstrom Arts Centre in California, and a woolshed in Glencoe, plus many more conventional and non-conventional theatre spaces
Ben Grant. DRAMATURG. Ben’s most recent stage credits include My Dearworthy Darling (Malthouse); Hir (Red Stitch) and This (Rising Festival). Other stage credits include his collaboration with Robert Lepage on Ex Machina’s Jeux De Cartes: Coeur; The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland (Ridiculusmus); Circle Mirror Transformation (MTC) and Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare). Ben has created several solo shows including The Rug (La Mama). Screen credits include Paul Cox's Force of Destiny, The Cup and Superwog. Ben received a Green Room Award for Best Performance in Independent Theatre for his role of Alfie in Save for Crying by Angus Cerini. Ben played Picasso in Lemony S' critically acclaimed work 'Picasso and His Dog' and has been dramaturg on 'Captives of the City', "taking the Waters' and 'Crow Kid'.. He also composed the music for 'Crow Kid'.