EDUCATION MANAGER / TEACHER

FRANCES MARRINGTON has trained and worked as a theatre performer, film actor and arts administrator in Melbourne, Tasmania, Adelaide, Brisbane, New York and Sweden over the last eight years. Performing highlights include an eight month contract on the interactive show The Ship That Never Was (2007) in Strahan, puppeteering for Robert Reid's award-winning show Sad Bird Boy and Other Dreams of the City (2006), touring to Adelaide with theatre in decay's Eight Days (2006), and playing the lead in the recently released cult horror film Watch Me (2004). She has also produced (and performed in) several shows, including Picasso's Women for the Butterfly Club (2006), and a double-bill Hamlet / Oedipus for Eagle's Nest Theatre (2006). She has a B.A. (Drama) from QUT, and studied in the BDA (Acting) course at VCA in Melbourne. She has trained with Zen Zen Zo since 2000, and initiated the popular annual Melbourne Stomp intensive for the company in 2006. She has recently returned to Brisbane to undertaking Zen Zen Zo's 2008 internship course, which will culminate in the performance of Zeitgeist.