SNAFU’S Sexy Puppet Show 2
Epidermis Circus 2
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Epidermis Circus 2 ~
Show description
NEW MADCAP VAUDEVILLE SHOW from the creators of Epidermis Circus (Ed Fringe Holdover Winner) where everything becomes a puppet and either makes you laugh or turns you on. Watch Ingrid (who also puppeteer's for the Jim Henson Co & Sesame) create an all-new live puppet film on stage using only a camera and her bare hands. SPICY, FOR AGE 14+.
LIVE IN EDMONTON (Premiere!)
August 15 - 23, 2025
Venue 1: The Westbury Theatre
Fri 15th Aug @ 12:00 pm
Sat 16th Aug @ 9:00 pm
Mon 18th Aug @ 5:00 pm
Wed 20th Aug @ 7:00 pm * With ASL
Fri 22nd Aug @ 2:00 pm
Sat 23rd Aug @ 11:00 pm
*Wednesday we will have Sign Language interpreter Andrea Konowalec performing live on stage with us
Performance Length: 60 min.
Techniques: Hand puppetry, projections, mirror effects, illusions, and objects
CONTENT WARNING
Cartoonish sexual content, curse words, dark lighting, loud music, and surprises.
Recommended for Audiences age 14+.
PRESS
“Utterly magical, insanely inventive, wickedly funny, BEAUTIFULLY TWISTED, and occasionally erotic! Imagine Shari Lewis possessed by David Lynch”
★★★★★
“An amazingly versatile physical comedian with a knack for bringing inanimate objects to life.”
“Imagine Shari Lewis possessed
by David Lynch”
★★★★★
“Unbelievably charismatic.”
“Immensely funny, creative, uproarious and surprising...Her physicality is impeccable.”
“Unbelievably funny.”
Credits
Produced by SNAFU Society of Unexpected Spectacles
Co-Created & Directed by Britt Small
Co-Created & Performed by Ingrid Hansen
Co-Produced by, and with creative contributions from, Kathleen Greenfield
Music Composed by Hank Pine
Costume Design by JIMBO The Drag Clown (James Insell)
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ingrid Hansen
Co-Artistic Producer of SNAFU
Co-Creator, Performer and Co-Producer of Epidermis Circus
About Ingrid(She/her) Raised by gregarious Danish immigrants, Ingrid is Canadian artist, and a tree climber whose purse is always full of snacks. Ingrid puppeteers on television for Sesame and The Jim Henson Company. She plays Heart, a lovable orange monster on Helpsters, Sesame Workshop’s Emmy-Award-Winning series for AppleTV+. She also puppeteers and voices characters on Henson’s new Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock series
With SNAFU, Ingrid has co-authored and co-produced 21 live shows including Epidermis Circus, Little Orange Man, Kitt & Jane, Interstellar Elder, Table Top Tales, Snack Music and The Merkin Sisters. SNAFU’s work has been presented by the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, the Festival Cervantino in Mexico, by David Byrne of the Talking Heads, The Lincoln Centre in NYC, and more.
She co-wrote a dark pop album with Shirley Gnome and The Merkin Sisters. She posts stoopiddances and puppet videos on Instergum @iamingridhansen
Britt Small
Director & Co-Creator of Epidermis Circus
About Britt(She/her) Britt was born in The Pas and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba before playing hockey for McGill University in Montreal and ultimately settling on Vancouver Island where she earned her MFA in Directing at the University of Victoria.
Britt has over 20 years experience as a director, producer, performer, creator and teacher of Physical Theatre and Clown. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Atomic Vaudeville company, original producers of hit musical Ride the Cyclone. Recently she directed the World Tour of Jimbo's Drag Circus. As an actor she recently played Valere in La Bete for The Great Works Festival. Other roles include Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Harpo in Animal Crackers. So, clowns, lots of ridiculously expressive clowns. She performs musically as Boss Saint B and opened for Peaches on their 2022 Anniversary Tour. Britt has directed Janet Munsil’s Circus Fire and The Ugly Duchess, Jacob Richmond’s Qualities of Zero, Ride the Cyclone and Legoland, The Fantasticks and True West for Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream for GVSF, God’s Lake and Castle in the Sky for Castlereigh Theatre, Epidermis Circus for SNAFU, My Chernobyl for Gateway Theatre and The Belfry and local Victoria cult hits The Rocky Horror Show and Hedwig for AV. Britt also works as a mentor, dramaturg and book editor, is currently developing two new Canadian musicals and teaches acting, play building, clown, comedy, movement and improvisation for various stage and film organizations.
Listen to Boss Saint B’s Westcoast Hip-hop
Kathleen Greenfield
Co-Artistic Producer of SNAFU
Co-Producer of Epidermis Circus
About KathleenKathleen (they/she) lives, collaborates and creates new work on the unceded territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. Kathleen’s interests and experience are in site-specific outdoor performance, shadow and object puppetry, clown, ritual and collaborative creation. Kathleen has a BFA in Theatre from the University of Victoria and studied at the Banff Puppet Theatre Intensive in 2012. In 2024 Kathleen was awarded the Pro-Art Alliance Mid-Career Artist Award for their contributions to the regional arts community in Victoria.
In 2013, Kathleen joined SNAFU as Co-Artistic Producer. They have directed three giant roving park shows: Lieutenant Nun in 2015 (co-directed with Mercedes Batiz-Benet, Puente Theatre) New Earth Bandits (2023) and New Earth Bandits 2 (2025). Kathleen has directed the premiere productions of Calling Home: Stories from Military Families (SNAFU, Belfry Incubator), Little Orange Man, Kitt & Jane and Interstellar Elder (SNAFU).
In the summer of 2018, Kathleen directed a rotating double cast of twenty teen performers in a site-specific performance of Concord Floral by Jordan Tannahill. This play was staged in an abandoned Department Store in Downtown Victoria and produced by SKAM.
Kathleen joined the artistic team at William Head Prison in 2013 as a facilitator, workshop leader, assistant director, projection designer, writer and performer for Time Waits for No One: A Prison Play (2014) and HERE: A Captive Odyssey (2015) and The Crossroads: A Prison Cabaret alongside a team of incarcerated participants and outside artists. Kathleen led WHoS participants in the creation of Sleeping Giants (2016) and The Emerald City Project (2019). Kathleen facilitated, recorded & edited the Dark Traveller Prison Podcast in 2020/2021 during pandemic lockdown.
Kathleen has training in Bouffon and clown with Michael Kennard (Mump & Smoot) and Britt Small (Atomic Vaudeville). She performs mind-bending clown rituals on stage with Atomic Vaudeville, and is currently developing a new solo clown show with SNAFU titled, Middle Child.
Kathleen is passionate about supporting artists who are driven to create and produce their own work. They’ve built plays with kids ranging from age 3 to 18, artists with disabilities at Garth Homer Society and WHoS prison theatre alumni-on-parole. Kathleen currently teaches creative development and grant writing to emerging artists at Canadian College of Performing Arts. Kathleen is also Co-Leader of Atomic Vaudeville where they mentor new creators & producers.
Hank Pine
Composer, Epidermis Circus
About HankHank Pine is a queer performer whose psychedelic music hinges upon deliberate lyrics. He puts equal focus on meaningful words as on live performance, and is usually dressed up like some kinda freak.
He has written five musicals: The Tragical Comedy of Punch and Judy for Caravan Farm Theatre, Blisskrieg for Atomic Vaudeville, Tireseias for Phoenix Theatre, Yukon Famous for the Yukon Arts Society, and Heatseeker: a Musical about Gayness and Grindr.
Jimbo Insell
Costume Designer of Epidermis Circus
About JimboJimbo is a fabulous drag queen and whimsical clown, innovative designer, jaw-dropping-performer, and all around free spirit. Winner of Ru Pauls’ Drag Race All Stars and Founder of the House of Jimbo, Jimbo is a Victoria-based artist who has designed for film and television and on stage for Victoria’s Atomic Vaudeville (Ride the Cyclone, Rocky Horror, Hedwig and the Angry Inch.)
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