Bambina Borracha Productions Inc.

ABOUT BAMBINA BORRACHA

Bambina Borracha Productions formed in August 2007 to produce works by exciting emerging artists. The key aim of the association is to enhance artists' knowledge and experience by creating work of a professional standard.

The company’s premiere production, Persephone’s Wolf, debuted at the CarriageWorks Arts Centre in 2008 before touring to critical success at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. This show was a new Australian work combining theatre, live music, film and an accompanying cross-media installation created by local artists.

In total, Persephone’s Wolf involved more than 30 emerging artists and was a sparkling incarnation of Bambina Borracha’s aims.

Since 2007, the association has produced works at some of Sydney's most prestigious independent artistic seasons including Griffin Indepenent and Belvoir's BSharp.

Bambina Borracha's production at Belvoir Street of Beyond the Neck by Tom Holloway was nominated for Best Independent Production in 2009 at the Sydney Theatre Awards.

In 2010, Bambina Borracha Productions won the Bank SA's People's Choice Award at the Adelaide Fringe Festival with Words They Make With Their Mouths.

Bambina Borracha Productions continues to work with emerging artists and provide them with creative opportunities for directors, producers, designers, peformers, media-makers, visual artists and writers.

ARTISTS WORKING WITH THE COMPANY

TOMMY MURPHY

Tommy Murphy is an acclaimed Australian writer, and has come on board as Bambina Borracha's Dramaturg, advising the company creatively.

NICK COYLE

Nick Coyle's play Hammerhead (is dead) kicked off Bambina Borracha's inaugral 2009 Season. The show was part of the prestigious Griffin Theatre's Stablemates Program and was a great success, offering emerging actors, designers and technicians the opportunity to showcase their skills in the professional arts arena.

JOHN BELL

"Best Wishes to Bambina Borracha Productions in launching a bold new initiative and for supporting new creative talent"

John Bell, Artistic Director of the Bell Shakespeare Company

DIRECTORS

BRYONY WEISS

GENERAL MANAGER
Founding member of Bambina Borracha Productions, Bryony is currently completing her Masters in Business Administration at UTS. Her Bambina Credits include Persephone’s Wolf (Carriageworks and Adelaide Fringe Festival), Then We Had Adventures (Underbelly), Hammerhead (is dead) (Griffin Stablemates, as Executive Producer) and Beyond the Neck (B Sharp, nominated for Sydney Theatre Award's Best Independent Production). She has also independently produced The October Sapphire (The Edge Theatre and TAP Gallery) and over 20 productions for the Sydney University Dramatic Society.

VANESSA HUGHES

Vanessa Hughes is a video/media-maker and director. In 2008 Vanessa created Constellation, a sound sculpture at Sydney’s CarriageWorks as part of the theatrical project Persephone’s Wolf which involved extensive theatrical projections. Her documentary footage has been aired on the ABC, and in 2006 her online documentary Six Somersaults was exhibited at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. She was a panelist at the Underbelly Arts Festival in 2008 at CarriageWorks. In June 2010, Vanessa created Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas with Zoe Norton Lodge, which after a critically acclaimed season will tour to the Melbourne Fringe Festival in September.

ZOE NORTON LODGE

Zoe Norton Lodge is a co-founder of BB and co-writer and director of our first show Persephone's Wolf. Zoe has acted in many productions, including 11 in the last few years put on by the SUDS with roles such as the Duchess of Gloucester in Shakespeare's Richard II and Hannah in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. More recently Zoe has been involved in collaborative, experimental projects as a writer, director and actor. In these projects improvisation, soundscape, movement and music have played key roles creating wholly new works.

TIM SPENCER

Tim Spencer performed and directed numerous shows at Sydney University Dramatic Society including Medea, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, Goldberg Street and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Since co-founding Bambina Borracha Productions he has produced, written and performed for shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide including Beyond the Neck (B Sharp). In December 2009 he appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream (B Sharp). His short film credits include Kaleidescope, Funnier Friends than Me and 15/5/2010. In 2010 the performance he created in Shopfront Theatre's ArtsLab Words They Make with their Mouths won the People's Choice Award in the Adelaide Fringe Festival and will continue to tour to the Melbourne Fringe. He is a writer in atyp's Fresh Ink program and his next solo performance I Scare My 6 Year Old Self will premiere in Underbelly Arts 2010.

co-founders

Cait Harris
Vanessa Hughes
Zoe Norton Lodge
Tim Spencer
Bryony Weiss