Martin Fox
In the performing arts community, Martin has collaborated as video artist with many artists, including: Dean Walsh, DeQuincy Co, Margie Medlin, Ros Warby, Ruckus, Raghav Handa, Sandra Parker, Linda Luke and Victoria Hunt.
In the performing arts community, Martin has collaborated as video artist with many artists, including: Dean Walsh, DeQuincy Co, Margie Medlin, Ros Warby, Ruckus, Raghav Handa, Sandra Parker, Linda Luke and Victoria Hunt.
For broadcast, Martin Fox's recent directing credits include William Yang's My Generation, Bloodlinks and Friends of Dorothy, and recent editor credits for the acclaimed, feature-length documentary “The Last Goldfish”.
Martin's interests lie in the dialogue between the audience and the work, and how this communication can be nurtured and formed, such that the audience bring much of themselves to the story being told. Martin completed his Bachelor in Fine Art Honours at Sheffield Polytechnic, UK in 1985.
James Penny
James Penny is a co-founding member of RUCKUS and a slapstick comedian & impersonator. His passion for performing began in high school where he was in productions of Witches, Wizard of Oz, 12 Dreams of Nothing and Living with Lady Macbeth. He has appeared on stage, television, documentary and film (drama). Recent credits include; “Wild Things” at PACT in 2018, performances with Crossroad Arts in Mackay 2018, performances at the National Disability Awards Canberra 2017, Speed of Life with RUCKUS at PACT in 2016.
James Penny is a co-founding member of RUCKUS and a slapstick comedian & impersonator. His passion for performing began in high school where he was in productions of Witches, Wizard of Oz, 12 Dreams of Nothing and Living with Lady Macbeth. He has appeared on stage, television, documentary and film (drama). Recent credits include; “Wild Things” at PACT in 2018, performances with Crossroad Arts in Mackay 2018, performances at the National Disability Awards Canberra 2017, Speed of Life with RUCKUS at PACT in 2016.
TV credits include a guest appearance on STAN’s “The Other Guy” in 2017, video skits for Sydney Comedy Festival in 2015 and 2015. He is the subject of documentary “Inside Out” by Filmability, and appears in drama feature film Kairos by Sloane St Films. James has been facilitating performance workshops in Orange and Inverall with Parramatta Riverside’s Beyond the Square program in 2015 and 2018 and recently with Weird Nest in 2018 and 2019. He is an ensemble member of RUCKUS since 2013 and Midnight Feast since 2018.
Fausto Brusamolino
Fausto Brusamolino is a lighting designer and creative coder based in Sydney, Australia. Fausto designs lighting for live performances and filming, creates his own lighting installations, and provides lighting designs and consultation for other artists' artworks and exhibitions.
Fausto Brusamolino is a lighting designer and creative coder based in Sydney, Australia.
Fausto designs lighting for live performances and filming, creates his own lighting installations, and provides lighting designs and consultation for other artists' artworks and exhibitions.
Fausto has lit productions in traditional venues like theatres, studios and galleries, alongside less conventional locations like multilevel car parks, large outdoor installations and an abandoned restaurant.
Fausto's approach to lighting design organically embraces a wide range of visual techniques, deploys specifically made lighting, mechanical objects, and uses creative coding to build custom made softwares.
In his work, creative coding is used as a tangible platform for personal research, for prototyping visual solutions, and for real time control of lighting and other scenic effects. Creative coding is implemented as an organic element of the show, and become a distinctive production asset to create stunning and unique aesthetics.
Fausto received the 2018 Green Room Award for Best Visual Design for Tangiwai, directed by Victoria Hunt, which he designed the lighting for and developed the software/hardware to manipulate the water effects in real time. Website with portfolio and gallery at: http://www.fausto.design
Kate Shanahan
After studying theatre design in London, Kate began her design experience working outside the traditional ‘theatre box’, exploring run-down factory spaces with London Contemporary School of Dance, abandoned cathedrals in Brono, Czech Republic and continues her passion for the unusual with the diverse theatre, film, dance and opera companies she has collaborated with here in Australia.
After studying theatre design in London, Kate began her design experience working outside the traditional ‘theatre box’, exploring run-down factory spaces with London Contemporary School of Dance, abandoned cathedrals in Brono, Czech Republic and continues her passion for the unusual with the diverse theatre, film, dance and opera companies she has collaborated with here in Australia.
This includes Speed of Life and See In Me with RUCKUS where she first met Dean Walsh, Queen C for B Sharp, costumes for Richard III and The Wild Party for Siren Theatre Co, award winning dance performance One More Than One for Atypical Theatre Co,(starring Emma J Hawkins), Mother Fish and I Love you, But…with Powerhouse Youth Theatre, Darlingwood Tales for Loose Cannon Arts and The Opera House, Mash Up for The Q Theatre, costumes for Helpmann award winning Thursday’s Child for Monkey Baa, also Il Campanello, numerous shows for PACT and Babies Proms for the Opera House. Kate has also designed for the Royal Easter show, and has facilitated visual arts workshops for people with a disability.
Her costumes in Queen C were nominated for Best Costume design in the Sydney Theatre Awards. The horror film Red Christmas (Craig Anderson), she did costume designs for premiered at the 2016 Sydney Film Festival and received critical acclaim.