THE BABY TYLER SHOW
for ages 5 to adult
Directed by Britt Small (premiere director of Ride the Cyclone)
Performed by Ingrid Hansen (puppeteer for The Jim Henson Company’s Fraggle Rock and Sesame Workshop's Helpsters.)
When you’re small, how do you live in a world designed for big people? Watch Baby Tyler discover his unique super powers to solve problems.
This show brings tiny things to life and magnifies them onto a huge screen.
The Baby Tyler Show (aka Ingi's Fingies) is a new family-friendly puppet show, hot on the heels of SNAFUs success with their spicy adult puppet show Epidermis Circus which just had a sold out run off Broadway.
Rated E for Everyone, recommended for age 5+
60 minutes long.
This show brings tiny things to life and magnifies them onto a huge screen.
The Baby Tyler Show (aka Ingi's Fingies) is a new family-friendly puppet show, hot on the heels of SNAFUs success with their spicy adult puppet show Epidermis Circus which just had a sold out run off Broadway.
Rated E for Everyone, recommended for age 5+
60 minutes long.
“Ingi turns anything and everything into a puppet
and makes it funny.”
An "enormously entertaining, one-hour madcap vaudeville show. 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." - Culture Catch NYC
★★★★★ "Utterly magical, insanely inventive, wickedly funny"
- Winnipeg Free Press
“A genius of physical comedy"
- Entertainment World
“Remarkable feats of puppetry"
- CBC
"Immensely funny, creative, uproarious and
surprising... Her physicality is impeccable"
- The Star Phoenix
“Unbelievably funny” - PLANK Magazine
“Unbelievably charismatic” - The Charlebois Post
“An amazingly versatile physical comedian with a knack for bringing inanimate objects to life” - The Montreal Gazette
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 by Hank Pine
Puppetry consultants Jessica Hickman, Mike Petersen, Tim Gosley, Loreto Espinoza, Jeni Luther
THANK YOUS
This show was created with support from the CRD Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Belfry Theatre.
ARTIST BIOS
Ingrid Hansen
Co-Artistic Producer of SNAFU
Co-Creator, Performer and Co-Producer of Ingi's Fingies
(She/her) Raised by gregarious Danish immigrants, Ingrid is 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. For the TreehouseTV/Amazon show Miss Persona, Ingrid puppeteers Melissa the Dog, and also choreographed and directed on several music videos, including getting choreograph ballet for ‘Letterkenny’ comedian K. Trevor Wilson. (Both as magical in person as you would expect.) She also puppeteered and voiced Gertie the Gopher for four seasons of Tiga Talk (APTN), and appeared on Princess Sparkly Butt and The Hot Dog Kid (Teletoon).
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, The SummerWorks Festival, The Great Canadian Theatre Centre, The Centaur Theatre, the International Festival of Animated Objects, and festivals across North America.
For the past decade, Ingrid has built an ongoing collaboration with the prisoners at William Head on Stage, the only prison theatre company in Canada that performs for the public. She teaches workshops from kinder to adult. @iamingridhansen
Co-Artistic Producer of SNAFU
Co-Creator, Performer and Co-Producer of Ingi's Fingies
(She/her) Raised by gregarious Danish immigrants, Ingrid is 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. For the TreehouseTV/Amazon show Miss Persona, Ingrid puppeteers Melissa the Dog, and also choreographed and directed on several music videos, including getting choreograph ballet for ‘Letterkenny’ comedian K. Trevor Wilson. (Both as magical in person as you would expect.) She also puppeteered and voiced Gertie the Gopher for four seasons of Tiga Talk (APTN), and appeared on Princess Sparkly Butt and The Hot Dog Kid (Teletoon).
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, The SummerWorks Festival, The Great Canadian Theatre Centre, The Centaur Theatre, the International Festival of Animated Objects, and festivals across North America.
For the past decade, Ingrid has built an ongoing collaboration with the prisoners at William Head on Stage, the only prison theatre company in Canada that performs for the public. She teaches workshops from kinder to adult. @iamingridhansen
Britt Small
Director and Co-Creator of Ingi's Fingies
(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. She is the co-founder and co-director of Atomic Vaudeville Theatre Company and has over 20 years experience as a director, producer, performer, curator, storyteller and teacher.
Britt has performed as Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Harpo Marx in Animal Crackers and created her own solo show Realboy for the UNO Fest. She 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 dramaturg and book editor and teaches acting, play building, clown, comedy, movement and improvisation for VADA and the CCPA.
ABOUT Boss Saint B(They/them)
Boss Saint B, originally from Saint Boniface is a singer and rapper and the musical persona of Britt Candide Small. They have performed at various events and festivals and are currently recording their debut album. They pull influence from early hip hop, 70's rock and 80's pop with a humourous feminist point of view and frequently collaborate with musician Hank Pine. @bosssaintb
Director and Co-Creator of Ingi's Fingies
(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. She is the co-founder and co-director of Atomic Vaudeville Theatre Company and has over 20 years experience as a director, producer, performer, curator, storyteller and teacher.
Britt has performed as Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Harpo Marx in Animal Crackers and created her own solo show Realboy for the UNO Fest. She 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 dramaturg and book editor and teaches acting, play building, clown, comedy, movement and improvisation for VADA and the CCPA.
ABOUT Boss Saint B(They/them)
Boss Saint B, originally from Saint Boniface is a singer and rapper and the musical persona of Britt Candide Small. They have performed at various events and festivals and are currently recording their debut album. They pull influence from early hip hop, 70's rock and 80's pop with a humourous feminist point of view and frequently collaborate with musician Hank Pine. @bosssaintb
Hank Pine
Original Music
Hank 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.
https://linktr.ee/hankpine
Original Music
Hank 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.
https://linktr.ee/hankpine
Kathleen Greenfield
Co-Artistic Producer of SNAFU
Co-Producer of Ingi's Fingies
Kathleen (they/she) lives, collaborates and creates new work on the territories of the WSÁNEĆ, Lkwungen & Wyomilth people. Kathleen’s interests and experience are in site-specific outdoor performance, shadow and object puppetry, clown and reviving old stories. Kathleen has a BFA in Theatre from the University of Victoria and studied at the Banff Puppet Theatre Intensive in 2012.
In 2013, Kathleen joined SNAFU Dance Theatre as Co-Artistic Director and has directed the premiere and workshop productions of many new works including Calling Home: Stories from Military Families (SNAFU, Belfry Incubator), Little Orange Man , Kitt & Jane and Interstellar Elder (SNAFU), and I Have Seen Beautiful Jim Key (Intrepid Theatre). In 2015, Kathleen co-directed the smash-hit-remount of Lieutenant Nun, a site-specific spectacle where the audience moves through an old battlement, pageant style. Recently, Kathleen led a team of junk artists, clowns and puppeteers to create New Earth Bandits, a choose-your-own-adventure spectacle, in the same park.
Kathleen has worked with William Head on Stage Prison Theatre as a facilitator, workshop leader, assistant director, projection designer, writer and performer since 2013. Kathleen directed and devised Sleeping Giants (2016) and The Emerald City Project (2019) and the Dark Traveller Podcast (2020). In addition to her work with SNAFU and WHoS, Kathleen has recently joined the Leadership team of Atomic Vaudeville.
Co-Artistic Producer of SNAFU
Co-Producer of Ingi's Fingies
Kathleen (they/she) lives, collaborates and creates new work on the territories of the WSÁNEĆ, Lkwungen & Wyomilth people. Kathleen’s interests and experience are in site-specific outdoor performance, shadow and object puppetry, clown and reviving old stories. Kathleen has a BFA in Theatre from the University of Victoria and studied at the Banff Puppet Theatre Intensive in 2012.
In 2013, Kathleen joined SNAFU Dance Theatre as Co-Artistic Director and has directed the premiere and workshop productions of many new works including Calling Home: Stories from Military Families (SNAFU, Belfry Incubator), Little Orange Man , Kitt & Jane and Interstellar Elder (SNAFU), and I Have Seen Beautiful Jim Key (Intrepid Theatre). In 2015, Kathleen co-directed the smash-hit-remount of Lieutenant Nun, a site-specific spectacle where the audience moves through an old battlement, pageant style. Recently, Kathleen led a team of junk artists, clowns and puppeteers to create New Earth Bandits, a choose-your-own-adventure spectacle, in the same park.
Kathleen has worked with William Head on Stage Prison Theatre as a facilitator, workshop leader, assistant director, projection designer, writer and performer since 2013. Kathleen directed and devised Sleeping Giants (2016) and The Emerald City Project (2019) and the Dark Traveller Podcast (2020). In addition to her work with SNAFU and WHoS, Kathleen has recently joined the Leadership team of Atomic Vaudeville.
Andrea Lemus
Stage Manager, Mexico Tour
Born and raised in Mexico. Andrea graduated from the National Ballet School of Cuba "Fernando Alonso" and later from the Canadian College of Performing Arts. Andrea has been performing with theatre companies in Victoria.
Some credits include: The HalliHippoRhinoCrocodilligator (KTYP), The Guardsman, Ride the Cyclone (Blue Bridge Theatre), 1002 Nights (Story Theatre), It’ll Come to Me (Theatre Skam), Countess Maritza, Flight (POV), The Rocky Horror Show, Mind the Gap, Pandemonium (Atomic Vaudeville).
Stage Manager, Mexico Tour
Born and raised in Mexico. Andrea graduated from the National Ballet School of Cuba "Fernando Alonso" and later from the Canadian College of Performing Arts. Andrea has been performing with theatre companies in Victoria.
Some credits include: The HalliHippoRhinoCrocodilligator (KTYP), The Guardsman, Ride the Cyclone (Blue Bridge Theatre), 1002 Nights (Story Theatre), It’ll Come to Me (Theatre Skam), Countess Maritza, Flight (POV), The Rocky Horror Show, Mind the Gap, Pandemonium (Atomic Vaudeville).
