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Charles Ball
Charles Ball earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance from Queensland University of Technology QUT in Through various artistic collaborations and a continually evolving personal practice he has created and performed works around Australia and internationally in multiple disciplines including contemporary dance ballet theatre aerial and puppetry
Ball has performed with Queensland Theatre Queensland Ballet Opera Australia Legs on the Wall Dead Puppet Society Red Leap Theatre The Farm Broad Encounters Expressions Dance Company and he was part of the Australian national tour of Bluey s Big Play
He also remains an active member of the independent dance community frequently collaborating with local artists and researching experimental creative processes in the pursuit of meaningful and engaging original works As a maker Ball’s choreography has been featured at Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance Dark World Festival and The IndepenDANCE Project
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Rachel Burke
Rachel Burke is a graduate of Flinders University Drama Centre in South Australia Since graduating in she has performed in Beep Windmill Theatre Macbeth A Doll’s House In the Club Sense and Sensibility STCSA Ensemble Jasper Jones and Decameron STCSA Angelique isthisyours? Cranky Bear The Lighthouse Patch Limit Red Sky Morning STCSA Umbrella Tartuffe STCSA/Brink The Wolves RUMPUS Speak Out ActNow Foolz Flinders University My Beautiful Radio Station Expressway Arts and This Storm The Unrest Cure Her screen credits include Beep and Mort Windmill Pictures and webseries Dead Centre Jupeter Films She directed Di and Viv and Rose RUMPUS worked as assistant director on Girls and Boys STCSA As One Tiny Bricks and Love and Information Flinders Drama Centre and was an Intimacy Consultant on Requiem Adelaide Festival
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Jess Gollé
Jess Gollé is a Brisbane based artist with a background in dance acting film and theatre In Gollé graduated from Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Communication Entertainment Industries with Distinction as well as establishing herself in a variety of performing roles Performer for The Walt Disney Company Tokyo Disneyland performer for Dreamworld and Village Roadshow Theme Parks and working with the Starlight Children’s Foundation present
In late Gollé went on to developing coordinating and performing with Bluey Live and opened the first Bluey Live Experience in Queensland as a female host Her roles and responsibilities further expanded in to Production assistant for Bluey Live Australia events As a continuation Gollé was cast as a puppeteer for Bluey’s Big Play Australian National Tour Gollé is beyond excited to now be representing Australia as part of the opening cast for Bluey’s Big Play USA tour
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Joanna Halliday
Born and raised in Melbourne Joanna Halliday has trained in Music Theatre at Showfit and completed her Bachelor in Acting at The Victorian College of the Arts Upon graduating in Halliday debuted as Juliet in Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet dir Jennifer Sarah Dean Since then has performed as Gwendolen Carr in Travesties dir Jennifer Sarah Dean Cherie in Blackrock dir Nicola Bowman As You Like It dir Jennifer Sarah Dean A Comedy of Errors dir Ben Adams In Halliday appeared in the feature film Ride Like a Girl as Young Burnadette featuring Sam Neill and Teresa Palmer dir Rachel Griffiths and has guest appeared in Miss Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries Come Die with Me dir Lynn Hegarty Halliday is trained in singing classical piano violin and classical dance Halliday has been involved with Bluey’s Big Play since March and has played various roles since! This USA tour she’s excited to be playing Bingo… for real life!
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Jessa Koncic
Jessa Koncic is a born Melbournian! She has studied performing arts in both Australia and Indonesia After training with the Australian Youth Theatre for years Koncic went on to graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts
VCA Melbourne University with a BFA in Acting She also trained for a time in Bali studying Mask Koncic joined the cast of Bluey’s Big Play in
Some of her credits include Bluey Bluey’s Big Play Development National Tour Dir Rose Myers Hero Woman A Theory of Incompleteness Runner up Sony Film Festival Dir Simon Green Geb Fidgeter Santa The Great Australian Play Theatre Works Dir Saro Lusty Cavillari Hunter F ing A VCA Dir Candy Bowers Fefu Fefu and her Friends VCA Dir Sapidah Kian
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Jess Minas
Jess Minas is an Adelaide based artist working in dance theatre puppetry and film Minas danced in Anifex’s award winning stop motion animation titled The Better Angels In Minas began working as a puppeteer for Windmill Theatre Company and HVK Productions on their Australian tour of Blueys Big Play directed by Rosemary Myers Minas worked as Movement Director on Lachlan Barnett’s ActNow Theatre MakeSpace Residency whilst also puppeteering on Windmill Pictures production of Beep and Mort supported by the ABC Most recently Minas worked as a dancer/ collaborator on Projekt Moxie directed by Lina Limosani and Daniel Jaber as well as Dance Launchpad a dance double bill directed by Tobiah Booth Remmers and Amanda Phillips produced by The Mill Adelaide
Minas’ choreographic/ directorial achievements include Salute as part of Rip Drag and Ruminate in the Adelaide Fringe Festival winning Best Dance Show at the Adelaide Fringe Awards as well as two movement based short films Snail Mail and Depart
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Louisa Reid
Louisa Reid attended the Victorian Collage of the Arts graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Acting in Reid first worked as a professional puppeteer on the Australian tour of Bluey s Big Play in the role of Chilli She continues this role for the North American Tour
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Allanah Sarafian
Allanah Sarafian is a puppeteer visual artist and teacher originally from Brisbane and now residing in Melbourne Australia Sarafian began her career in the arts by studying fashion which then morphed into working in costume circus and finally puppetry While working as a performance and visual artist Sarafian also completed a primary education qualification and has been a primary art teacher for the last eight years Sarafian’s debut into puppetry began six years ago when she started working with Trash Puppets Since then she has performed with and built puppets for Erth Visual and Physical Inc POPOMOCO A Blanck Canvas Private Function Moomba and White Night among others In Sarafian was a participant in Lemony S Puppets inaugural training program Puppet Lab Sarafian enjoys working with and making art inspired by the outlook of children
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Stephanie Stephens
Stephanie Stephens is a dedicated performer who is passionate about bringing joy to children and families She has seen every episode of Bluey at least twice and is very excited to be back on stage with Bluey’s Big Play HVK After performing multiple roles in the show throughout Australia she is more eager than ever to conquer America as her favorite little blue heeler Stephens has over years of experience working with characters including Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida She has also performed on Disney Cruise Line Disney International Christmas Tours and completed a Disney Articulated Training course in puppetry
Other career highlights include performing alongside The Wiggles at Sydney ICC working with Hi at Marina Bay Sans in Singapore and bopping with pop sensation Ricki Lee at the Sydney Opera House
Television Appearances include Carols in the Domain Channel The Today Show Channel and a commercial for Disney on Ice
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Aarod Vawser
Aarod Vawser is an actor writer video editor and puppeteer and is thrilled to be a part of Bluey’s Big Play as it tours the US In Vawser graduated with an Honours degree in Drama at Flinders University He is a co founder of South Australian theatre company the CRAM Collective He has co produced and starred in productions for CRAM since its conception in He has won awards for his playwriting and film making These include a merit award for the Flinders University & STCSA Young Playwrights Award for his play We Need To Talk About Julia and an award at Orlando Filmapalooza for the hour film competition Two shirt films he co created were shortlisted for Helpmann Awards He was Assistant Director of the Flying Penguin production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross directed by David Mealor Vawser works as a video editor and filmographer for Replay Creative He is a proud member of MEAA
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Kristal Walcott
Kristall Walcott is a year old Caribbean born dancer/entertainer She started dancing when she was eight and professionally trained full time at Ikin Dance on the Gold Coast While training Walcott received many opportunities to dance in music videos corporate events festivals and musical theatre productions
Walcott’s most recent achievements outside of dance has been appearing in major feature films such as the Elvis biopic Godzilla vs Kong and Disney productions as well as modelling for fashion brands and catwalk opportunities
However her most exciting venture will be the upcoming USA tour of Bluey’s Big Play where she will be one of the puppeteer’s of the character Chilli Kristall can’t wait to step into this new role alongside amazing performers while bringing her own brand of zany energy and child like joy
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Chris White
Chris White is a passionate actor and singer from the Gold Coast Australia Fresh off the back of the Australian tour of Bluey’s Big Play HVK he is extremely excited to tour the USA for the first time Previously White was a member of internationally renowned children’s entertainment group Hi and in the Male Ensemble for pop sensation Adele’s World Tour He has also performed for Prince Charles and created original content with the Yellow Wiggle Greg Page Television appearances include Young Officer in Nautilus Disney and Cheeko in Team Rescue ABC Kids Theatrical highlights include Simon Gallaher’s The Pirates of Penzance Johnny Casino in Grease The Arena Experience HRTC Roger in RENT Brisbane Powerhouse Chris in Miss Saigon HOTA Ken in Barbie Anything is Possible Pen Stage Dubai Sky in Mamma Mia! Packemin Jeremy in Sentinel Chickens JUTE and the development of new musicals State of Origin The Musical & Julie QPAC
