LYNNE BRADLEY has worked as a director, choreographer, performer and actor-trainer in Brisbane and abroad for the past 20 years. In 1992 she founded Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre with Simon Woods, and has spent the past 15 years building Zen Zen Zo into an internationally renowned performance and training centre.

As a director, choreographer and performer, Lynne has worked on most of the company’s productions, including:

Director: Sub-Con Warrior 1, Wicked Bodies (co-production with La Boite Theatre 04), Unleashed (96 & Adelaide Fringe 00), Steel Flesh (Brisbane Festival 98), Butoh: The Way of Mud (93), Never the Elephant (93), Wicked Bodies (Rehearsed Reading: Magdalena Festival 03). Her other directorial credits include: QPAC/ZZZ: The Mayne Inheritance (03); Vegas Nerve: Cooking Up A Princess (01); TAFE: The Bacchae (00), Outcasts (00); UQ: Ubu Rex (98), Ghost Paths (97), Manfred (96); La Boite: Black Chicks Talking (Assistant Director 02).

Movement Director: The Odyssey (04), The Man Who Sold the World (Brisbane Festival 00), Oedipus (00), Macbeth: As Told by the Weird Sisters (98, 99, Singapore Youth Festival 02), Visions of Macbeth (98-00), The Marriage of Figaro (Stage X Festival 97), The Cult of Dionysus (Japan 94, Brisbane Festival 96), Galileo (93), and most recently Those with Lucifer (Guest choreographer 05). Other choreography includes: Fractal: The Oresteia (93); La Boite: A Paper House (01). Lynne has received awards for her choreography of both Macbeth: As Told by the Weird Sisters and Unleashed. Lynne also recieved a Del Arte Award for best director for Sub Con Warrior 1.

Training and Teaching: Lynne is also a principal instructor specializing in movement and physical theatre, and has founded a number of Zen Zen Zo’s flagship training programs, including Stomping Ground and the Company Internship. Her training includes the Suzuki Method, Noh, Nihon Buyo and Butoh, which she studied intensively whilst living in Japan from 1989-1995, and again in 1999 (whilst on a Fellowship from the Brisbane City Council). Her Butoh teachers included founder Kazuo Ohno, Katsura Kan (Byakko-sha), Iwashita Toru (Sankai Juku), and Maro Akaji (Dairakudakan). In 1998 she received an Arts QLD professional development grant to study Viewpoints with Anne Bogart and the SITI company in New York, and she and Simon Woods subsequently became the first teachers of this actor training method in Australia. In 2007, Lynne received a grant to travel to Japan nd study and perform with one the world’s largest and oldest Butoh companies, Dairakudakan. She is also a qualified teacher of Ashtanga Yoga (1st series). Lynne is currently completing her PhD in the area of Australian Physical Theatre, and lecturers regularly in Australian universities.

SIMON WOODS is the Co-Artistic Director of Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre and an experienced performance trainer and director. Simon has trained with Anne Bogart (SITI Company, New York) and Suzuki Tadashi (Suzuki Company of Toga, Japan) since 1992 and specializes in psycho-physical training approaches - Suzuki Actor Training Method, Viewpoints and Composition. Since 2001 he has also consulted to the Brisbane Lions Football club in physical conditioning and mental skills.

Production Credits – Director: Galileo (1993) The Zoo Story (1993) The Cult of Dionysus (bilingual version, Kyoto 1994) Macbeth (Kyoto 1995) Kantan (NOHO Theatre, Kyoto 1994) The Cult of Dionysus (Brisbane Festival 1996), The Marriage of Figaro (Opera for Stage X festival 1997), Macbeth: As Told by the Weird Sisters (1998 & 99, remounted for the Optus Playhouse, Singapore Youth Festival and Townsville Civic Centre 2002), Visions of Macbeth (Arts Council Touring 1998-00), Ashes of Atreus (Creative Development 1999), Oedipus (Co-production with Southbank TAFE, 2000) The Man Who Sold the World (Brisbane Festival 2000, Touring Qld, Vic, SA, 2001). Confusions (Queensland Theatre Company 2002) Jack and the Beanstalk (Queensland Orchestra/QPAC; 2002) and Peter and the Wolf (Queensland Orchestra/QPAC; 2003) The Mayne Inheritance (QADIE/QPAC 2003), The Odyssey (2004). In 2005 he directed the 25 year birthday celebrations event for the Surveying company Gassman and Associates. Film Direction: Loaded Dice (SAYFA Award for Production 1993) The Brisbane Sustainable Home (Documentary 2006). Artistic Director of the XLD Youth Festival 2003.

Training and Teaching: Simon completed a BA in Theatre and Religion at the University of Queensland and Honours at QUT. In 2006 he received a Masters of Philosophy (UQ) for his research into the application of the Suzuki Actor Training Method in Australia. He has studied at the Saratoga International Theatre Institute with Anne Bogart and Suzuki Tadashi (New York 1993 & 99), the Kanze School of Noh (Kyoto 1994 - 95 & 99), and worked as Assistant Director to Neil Armfield (1997). Simon has taught physical theatre at many universities and companies including QUT, USQ, UQ, JCU, Tropicline Theatre Co., QTC and TAFE.