producer

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 ten years. She has performed for Zen Zen Zo in The Odyssey / Unleash the Warrior Body Bootcamp (Qld Arts Council 2010), Gaia, The Dairakudakan Project (2009), the Creative Generations showcase (2009), Zeitgeist (2008), and as a Zen Events performer at Downside Up (Judith Wright Centre, 2009) and the opening of the club Cloudland (2009). Other performance highlights include performing in Qld
Shakespeare Ensemble's touring show, Half Hour Hamlet (2009), an eight month contract on the interactive show The Ship That Never Was in Strahan (2007), 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 cult horror film Watch Me (2006). 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 is a professional stilt-walker, face painter, party host, and roving entertainer. 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. In 2008 she returned to Brisbane to complete the Internship program.
She iscurrently a member of Zen Zen Zo's Performance Company, Senior TeachingTeam, and Management Team.
She is also a proud member of MEAA.