Bambina Borracha Productions Inc.

ABOUT BAMBINA BORRACHA

Bambina Borracha Productions formed in August 2007 to produce works by exciting emerging artists across a variety of creative forms. Working with emerging artists, to enhance their knowledge and experience and create works of a professional standard is the key aim of the company.

The company’s premiere show 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 over 30 emerging creators and was a sparkling incarnation of the company’s key aim – to propel exciting emerging artists into the professional arena.

Since then, Bambina Borracha Productions has put the call out to find emerging artists with great projects and skills to become a part of our 2009 Season. After an overwhelming response, the company has selected six works to develop and produce through a combination of production work and the Creative Development Program.

The company continues to work with emerging artists and provide them with infinite creative opportunities, be their interests in directing, writing, producing, performing or creating of any kind.

Bambina Borracha Productions’ regular cabaret night Moonshine Babaret continues to garner new audiences and offers emerging artists a great place to perform. Go to babaret.com for more information.

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

VANESSA HUGHES

Vanessa is a filmmaker and new media maker. Her films include Childsplay, Walkabout, and many many endless works in progress. 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.

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. As a co-creator of The Genealogy of Victorian Birds, Tim established a unique method of devising theatre which he developed in Then We had Adventures for the Underbelly Festival 2008. 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 will appear in A Midsummer Night's Dream (B Sharp) and Words They Make with their Mouths (Adelaide Fringe Festival 2010).

BRYONY WEISS

Bryony is the immediate past president of the Sydney University Dramatic Society, and has been actively involved in the Sydney theatre scene for a number of years. Throughout her time at SUDS, she has produced over 20 shows; including Nick Coyle's The October Sapphire at the TAP Gallery, which later went on to tour to the New York Fringe Festival. Bryony's interests also extend to directing, and she directed a production of Don DeLillo's Valparaiso in the Cellar Theatre in 2006.

co-founders

Cait Harris

Vanessa Hughes

Zoe Norton Lodge

Tim Spencer

Bryony Weiss