The Baby Tyler Show
For ages 5 to adult
Show description
Let yourself be swept away into his miniature world for a delirious and surreal journey on the big screen as you follow the adventures of Baby Tyler. Standing just 25 cm tall, this mischievous little creature uses his cunning and superpowers to overcome the many obstacles that punctuate his daily life in this world designed for grown-ups...
Using everyday objects, her bare hands, and her legendary sense of surprise, the seasoned television puppeteer (Fraggle Rock / Jim Henson Co. and Helpsters / Sesame Workshop) creates surreal and hilarious situations with her bare hands, miniature environments, and modeling clay. Stories in these tiny worlds are performed live and magnified by a video camera onto a huge screen. This live puppet show becomes a real live animated film with a good dose of comedy and breathtaking illusions. A treat for everyone, regardless of age!
You will leave this show excited to sculpt your own goofy playdough monsters and to make your own puppet film with stuff you find in your kitchen.
For Audiences age 5+ to adult.
Performance Length: 60 min.
Language: Nonverbal / No Language.
Techniques: Techniques: Hand puppetry, projections, objects, playdough, and gummy bears
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PRESS
“Ingi turns anything and everything into a puppet and makes it funny.”
“Hansen’s hands-in-motion have the kind of presence that is often attributed to the greatest stage performers — transfixing the audience, and creating pin-drop silence interspersed with spontaneous bursts of laughter.”
“Utterly magical, insanely inventive, wickedly funny”
“A genius of physical comedy”
“Immensely funny, creative, uproarious and surprising... Her physicality is impeccable”
“Unbelievably funny”
“An amazingly versatile physical comedian with a knack for bringing inanimate objects to life”
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
Puppetry consultants Jessica Hickman, Mike Petersen, Tim Gosley, Loreto Espinoza, Jeni Luther
Stage Management by Kenny Streule
THANK YOUS
This puppet show was created with support from the CRD Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
We also received in-kind support from the Belfry Theatre and Atomic Vaudeville.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ingrid Hansen
Co-Artistic Producer of SNAFU
Co-Creator, Performer and Co-Producer
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 Henson. 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.
@iamingridhansen @snafudance
Britt Small
Director & Co-Creator
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.
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Kathleen Greenfield
Co-Artistic Producer of SNAFU
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
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.
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Kenny Streule
Stage Manager, European Tour
About KennyFrom humble beginnings growing up on a Brome Lake dairy farm southeast of Montreal, Kenny always aspired to be an actor. His passion for creating has led him to establish his own theatre company which produced his first play since high school, City Boy, based on the life of his cousin living in the country. He performed in his first solo autobiographical show, Malunderstood at MainLine Theatre, where he worked as Artistic Producer of MainLine and the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival. The show has toured to across the world including Orlando, where he was Best New Artist at the 2024 FESTN4, Ottawa where it performed its World French premiere at the Undercurrents Festival and most recently in Gothenburg, Sweden for the Gothenburg Fringe Festival. He was the co-chair of the Tour and Artist Relations Committee for the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals which placed him on the board of directors. In November 2023, Kenny became the recipient of the Unsung Hero of the Theatre awarded by the community at the Montreal English Theatre Award. In 2025, he worked as the operations manager for the world’s largest comedy festival, Juste pour Rire/ Just For Laughs Montreal.
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