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![]()  STEPHEN ATKINS is the Artistic Director of Vancouver-based Human Theatre, an Associate Artist with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre and a faculty member of the Capilano College Theatre Department in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is an experienced acting, voice and movement coach as well as a director and freelance writer. Recent writing credits include Dracula and Sub-Con Warrior 2.0 both of which were recently performed in Brisbane, Australia with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre.
Training and Teaching: Stephen has trained with David Smukler in three National Voice Intensives and has a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University in BC, Canada. He has also trained with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre in Brisbane and has taught at UBC, Studio 58, Simon Fraser University, Tooba Physical Theatre Centre and Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre.
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 IAN BAKER graduated from the University of Birmingham Theatre Arts programme in
1990. Since then he has worked in
theatre and drama education in the UK and Asia. When living
in England he worked for LanguageAlive,
one of the country’s premier TIE companies, as an actor teacher. In addition to
his full time teaching role, he also
developed and ran an extensive training programme for drama educators across
the UK’s second city.
Since 1996 Ian has lived and worked in Hong Kong. It is in his role here as Head of Drama and Theatre Arts at one of the
territories major English language international schools that he began to work
with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, who have subsequently trained teachers and students, both in
Hong Kong and Australia. Ian is currently seconded from his teaching role,
working as drama development advisor for the English School Foundation, and it
is with this opportunity that the involvement as producer with Hong Kong: Fa
Hoi Fu Kwai begins.
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 JAMES has spent twenty years working as an actor, director, administrator and teacher for La Boite, TN!, the Queensland Theatre Company, Toadshow, QUT and Warner Brothers, among others. He has been teaching young Queenslanders to act since 1995, when he first started tutoring at QUT. Since then he has taught hundreds of young hopefuls the rudiments of the craft. In addition to his university work, he has traversed Queensland since 2001, conducting workshops as part of the Queensland Theatre Company’s Regional Partnerships Program and has been a regular tutor in the company’s Theatre Residency Week. In 2005 he was appointed Artist‐in‐Residence at LASALLE‐SIA College of the Arts in Singapore, where he
taught acting to Acting and to Musical Theatre students. Since 2005, he has been proud to be an Artistic Associate at Zen Zen Zo, tutoring the core company and interns in aspects of naturalistic acting.
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 STEPH
trained in movement, mask and mime at Ecole Internationale de Theatre
Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She has also studied commedia d'ell arte with
Marcello Magni, devising with Theatre de Complicite and the Suzuki
method with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre. In 2000, she co-founded
Theatre Desequilibrium – an international ensemble of performers and
musicians. The company have performed original works throughout Europe,
the UK and Brazil (including Dix Sur le Pont [2000], Haut-Bas-Fragile
[2001], Circo Elefante [2003]). In 2002, the company initiated a
project of artistic and pedagogical exchange with Movimento Pro-Crianca
in Brazil. The exchange culminated in a production of Brecht's Good
Person of Setsuan performed by disadvantaged young people from Recife.
Steph has taught physical theatre and improvisation for a number of
companies (including Volcano Theatre Co, Epic Arts, s.e., Eastside)
throughout the UK and Europe in a wide range of theatrical and
community settings. She is currently based in Switzerland where she is
developing a project with hearing and non-hearing performers.
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 RACHEL was a original founding member of Zen Zen Zo Physical
Theatre and was an Artistic Associate until 1997, having designed all
production up until that point. These included: The Marriage of Figaro
(Stage X Festival), The Cult of Dionysus (Brisbane Festival), the
original 1995 production of Macbeth in Japan, and Butoh productions
Unleashed, The Way of Mud, and Never the Elephant. In 2000 Rachel
designed Seneca’s Oedipus and co-designed The Man Who Sold The World
(Brisbane Festival) for Zen Zen Zo.
Among her other designs are
Waiting for Godot directed by Sean Mee and Jean Genet’s The Maids. In
1997 she was awarded a Matilda Commendation for excellence in theatre
design. In 1998 at the Queensland Theatre Company she was assistant
designer for Sweet Panic and co-designer for children’s show The Blood
and Thunder Adventure on Hurricane Peak.
She has also worked in
design production on three Adelaide Festivals, two Asia Pacific
Triennials of Contemporary Art, the Sydney Festival and the Out Of The
Box Festival.
Since graduating from the University of Queensland
Department of Architecture in 1989 with a Bachelor of Design Studies,
Rachel has combined her stage design career with work in architectural
practice.
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 HELEN, a
former core company member from July 2003 to July 2004, is now an
associate artist, and continues to train, perform and teach with the
company. Helen was a participant of Zen Zen Zo’s inaugral internship
program in 2003/4.
Her first contact with the company was in 1993,
Kyoto, Japan where she started her training in physical theatre and Butoh. She performed in Zen Zen Zo’s The Cult of Dionysus (1994) and
played Lady Macbeth in Macbeth: As Told by the Weird Sisters (1995).
Other credits with the company include: Steven Mitchell Wright’s those
with Lucifer (2005), The Odyssey, playing the roles of sea nymph,
suitor and Ulysses’ mother (2004), Romeo and Juliet Creative
Development (2003), Tokyo Vogue Butoh piece (2002), Ashes Creative
Development (1999).
Helen returned to Japan in 2000/2001 to pursue
her Butoh training in Tokyo, where she studied and performed with
leading figures such as Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno, the late Motofuji, and
Dairakudakan. She now assists with teaching Butoh for Zen Zen Zo.
Helen graduated with a B.Ed (hons) and a major in Theatre-in-Education
from the UK. She moved to Australia in 2001 and has lived in Brisbane
since then. She currently works as a teacher trainer at the University
of Queensland’s Institute for Continuing and TESOL Education.
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 COLIN has a long association with Zen Zen Zo since composing
for the 1994 Kyoto season of Macbeth. Since that time he has adapted
this score three times and written music for seven more Zen Zen Zo
productions: Unleashed, The Man Who Sold The World, Steel Flesh,
Oedipus, The Odyssey, Wicked Bodies and those With Lucifer. He has also
written music for several Queensland Theatre Company productions,
Television documentaries and short films along with numerous forays
into the pop production world. Colin is currently teaching at the
Queensland Conservatorium of Music and conducting research into
cross-disciplinary collaboration.
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 From 2003 - 2007 STEVEN was the Associate Director and Senior Teacher of/for
Brisbane based theatre company, Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre. During this
time, his credits included: The Lost Lords (Director/Designer. Hong Kong
07), Dracula (Director/Designer. Old Museum - Brisbane 07), An End to
Dreaming (Director/Designer/Performer. Brisbane/London/Hong Kong 06), Slide
(Director/Designer/Performer. London/Brisbane 06), Persia
(Director. Australian
Business Arts Foundation Annual Awards Ceremony 06), Macbeth
(Director/Actor.
World Shakespeare Congress Opening Ceremony 06), Sub-Con Warrior 1 (Co-Director/Actor/Choreographer.
Site Specific Outdoor Work - Brisbane 06 Winner of 2 Del Arte Awards - Best
Director and Best New Work), those with Lucifer (Director/Choreographer/Designer. Substation 4, Brisbane 05), XLD Express: The Mayne Inheritance (Co-Director.
QPAC, Cremorne Theatre - Brisbane 04), The Odyssey (Actor, Asst.
Movement Director. QPAC, Cremorne Theatre - Brisbane 04), Romeo and
Juliet (Director/Actor/Designer. Queensland Arts Council Tour, Independant
QLD Tour, National Education Conference, DVD release - Brisbane, Sydney,
Hong Kong 04 - 07) as well as a number of secondary schools residencies
including The Dream (Director/Designer. Kelvin Grove State College 06) and
Azdak's Garden (Director/Designer. Brisbane Girls Grammar - The Judith
Wright Centre 05).
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