Show Program
Meet the Team
Creator / Peasblossom
Davey Seagle (he/they)
Davey is a graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, and works as a performer, director, producer, writer. Working largely as the founder & director of Ponydog Productions. His award-winning work has toured nationally, with the Sydney Fringe Award nominated There's Something About Bottom and Meet::Cute debuting this year, and his flagship show TattleTales: Immersive Tarot Storytelling winning "The Spirit of the Fringe" (Adelaide Fringe '23) and nominated for 4 other awards including "Best Theatre" (Melbourne Fringe '22). Other Ponydog work includes the sci-fi romp Hotel Bella Luna (Flight Path Theatre), The Agency (London Horror Festival), and co-presenting Spectacle & Mirth's Journey to the Kingdom of Hypnos which recieved "Best Immersive" & "The Spirit of the Fringe" awards at Sydney Fringe this year.
Other recent performance credits include: The Sweet Science of Bruising & Fuente Ovejuna! (Flight Path Theatre), The Angry Brigade (New Theatre), Doing (Puddle or Pond/KXT), Nazanin’s Story (UK tour, Howell Productions), and The Inaccurate Perception of Lara Grace (Two Shoes Films), and Scenes from Student Life (BBC Radio 4).
Other producer credits include: Much Ado (Flight Path Theatre), the aforementioned The Inaccurate Perception of Lara Grace, and the songs of Bards For Hire, which makes custom music commissions for gifts, games, and role-play gamers which are streamable wherever you get your music. Other writing credits include work as a ghost writer on indie feature film I Was a Soldier (Lexicon Films, 2023). Davey is a proud member of MEAA.
Nick Bottom
Cara Whitehouse (she/they)
Cara is an actor, writer and voice teacher. She is passionate about championing queer voices, creators and content. Cara also performs in Sydney as Drag King George Saint. She is a Certified Fitzmaurice Voicework® teacher and holds a BA (hons) Acting from LASALLE College of the Arts. Credits include: The Hero Leaves One Tooth (KXT), I Want it That Gay (Hayes), The Wasp (KXT), Tales of a City by the Sea (Australasian Tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BYTE Theatre), Medea (Melbourne Fringe), Elektra (LASALLE), Macbeth (Eagles Nest Theatre), Conference of the Birds (Singapore Arts Festival), Visible Cities (Singapore Arts Festival), One More Year (Cromwell Theatre) and The Wonderful World of Dissocia (LASALLE).
Co-Creator / Peter Quince "The Changeling"
Herbert Peppard (he/him)
Herbert Peppard is an Artist with a broad range of physical theatre and visual media experience who enjoys the craft of storytelling in all its forms. Although classically educated in illustration, painting, sculpture and holding a Master's in animation, Herbert, at an early age, fell in love with the power of theatrical performance, ideals of emotive symbolism, dynamic motion, and the absurd. This love led them to create, write, direct and perform in productions for stage, screen and interactive theatre worldwide. When not making outlandish costumes or performing, Herbert can be found designing toys and creating role-playing experiences for live-action or table top settings.
Puck
Rian Howlett (he/him)
Rian Howlett is a comedian, actor and theatre maker who’s made people laugh and cry across Australia, Hong Kong and the UK. He has performed in immersive theatre with Alone: An Existential Evocation and performed in live interactive film for Google with Peachy Films. Rian has credits on The Wrong Girl for Channel 10 and Pieces Of Her for Netflix with a keen appreciation for good stories, told well. He is co-founder of SmoothBrain and the Gang. A sketch comedy troupe with hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok and YouTube.
Queen Titania
Emma Throssell (she/her)
Emma Throssell is a Sydney based actor, creative and educator. Emma graduated from Actors Centre Australia with a Bachelor of Performance. Her most recent performance was a
production of Tough Tittes (dir. Kristelle Zibara and Renae Valastro) a feminist sketch comedy show at Meraki Bar as a prominent segment of the Femeraki Festival. In 2022 Emma also performed in a production of Merry Wives of Windsor (dir. Victor Kalka) at the New Theatre.
Emma's artistic ventures extend to screen acting where she has also been involved in numerous short films including I’m Glad You are Here (dir. James Nolan- Neylan), Mean Girls But With
Murder (dir. Brianna Neowhouse), Torment (dir. Daniel Waston) and a music video for Sophisticated Dingo’s new song "The Job I Took" (dir. Jessica Ramsey). Emma was also a touring actor for Poetry in Action, an educational theatre company, where she travelled around
Australia performing plays, showcasing the power of poetry and language to high school students in 2021. Emma is now a Dance, Drama and English educator at numerous schools. Her interactions with young and aspiring minds not only ignite her own artistic drive but also fuel
her growth as both an artist and an educator. Emma is a proud member of MEAA.
Production Designer
Ash Bell (she/her)
Ash is a production designer and visual art teacher, primarily working as a set and costume collaborator across video art, film, theatre, events and music video. After graduating from AFTRS, Ash has gone on to work with clients such as Qantas, Unilever and Absolut, and has designed music videos for Australian recording artists Julia Jacklin, Rainbow Chan, RÜFUS Du Sol, Ricki-Lee and Woodes. Most recently she has production designed for the Cannes Indie Shorts nominated and Flickerfest comedy award winning short film 'Butter: A Love story' (Madeleine Withington/Brosis). Her theatre costume and production design credits include Amadeus (Genesian), 'The Canterbury Tales' (New Theatre), 'Ghost Train' (Genesian), 'Year of The Family' (KXT), 'This is not Mills and Boon' (Old 505), 'Much Ado' (Flightpath) 'ApockaWockaLockalypse' (Meraki) and both iterations of 'U.B.U' (KXT) with Tooth and Sinew.
Sound Designer
Daniel Herten (he/him)
Daniel Herten is a Video Designer, Sound Designer, Composer,, and Creative Technologist working across theatre, installation and interactive media. Growing up in Fiji, China and Thailand before traveling to Sydney Australia - Daniel now collaborates on Bidjigal and Gadigal land to tell stories. His work explores the ways audiences interface with storytelling, and how emerging and integrated technologies can enhance this experience to create a two-way discussion between ourselves and our art. Daniel’s recent credits include: Composition & Sound Design Realiser of The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Sydney Theatre Company), Sound & Video Designer of Let The Right One In (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Sound Designer of Set Piece (Rising Festival), Composer, Sound Designer & co-Video Designer of Collapsible (Essential Workers), Composer & Sound Designer of FADE (NTofP), Sound Designer of Murder For Two (Hayes Theatre Co), Sound Designer of Hand To God (Red Line Productions), Co-Creator of noise (Articulate497 Gallery), Sound Design Associate of Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare), Sound Design Associate of Wherever She Wanders, Whitefella Yella Tree, Green Park, Sex Magick, PONY (Griffin Theatre Company).
Assistant Producer
Aaron Cornelius (he/him)
Aaron is an independent producer who is passionate about ambitious, immersive and irreverent theatre that breaks down the boundaries between the artist and the audience. Producing credits include Slanted Theatre: Lady Precious Stream (Producer, 2022), Ponydog Productions: TattleTales (Producer, 2021–Ongoing), Whimsical Productions: The Things I Could Never Tell Steven (Associate Producer, 2019), Verge Festival: The Blue Bird (Creative Producer, 2017), Adelaide Fringe Festival: Daniel Cullen’s Musical of Thrones (Assistant Producer, 2017) and Jetpack Theatre Collective/kXT: Rhinoceros (Producer, 2016). He was also Production Manager for New Theatre’s Stupid Fucking Bird (dir. Warwick Doddrell), which won the 2018 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Independent Production. While studying at the University of Sydney, he produced the 2017 Science Revue and interactive murder mystery J’Accuse (2016). Aaron graduated from The University of Sydney in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts (Music) & Bachelor of Science (Psychology), and is currently the Marketing, Engagement & Admin Coordinator for CDP Theatre Producers, one of Australia’s most prolific theatre companies developing and nationally touring new works for young audiences.
About Ponydog Productions
Ponydog Productions is an immersive/interactive theatre company and the brainchild of Davey Seagle.
Debuting at the London Horror Festival in 2018 with their dark-comedy dystopian thriller, The Agency, Ponydog has since immigrated to Sydney where we continue to make weird, and wacky theatre.
Thank you for joining us for this show, and we hope to see you at the next one!
We have some very exciting things in the pipeline...
Director's Note
If we shadows have offended, mayhaps it's time to stop taking Shakespeare so seriously.
See more of our work
TattleTales: Immersive Tarot Storytelling
Venture into an enchanting den of stories, secrets and sorcery for an immersive 60-minute adventure that's "unlike anything you've seen before".
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WINNER:
Spirit of the Fringe Award (Adelaide Fringe '23)
NOMINATED FOR:
Best Immersive/Interactive (Sydney Fringe '23)
Best Theatre (Melbourne Fringe '22)
Best Immersive/Interactive (Sydney Fringe '22)
Best Solo Performance (Broadway World '22)
Meet::Cute
We rarely take the time to get to know someone better. Would you like to?
A silly and wholesome interactive experience for two.
Bards For Hire
Our sister company; Bards For Hire turns your stories, loved ones, role-playing characters/campaigns into professionally produced theme songs, ballads, and more.
Bards For Hire also run games of Dungeons & Dragons for beginner players and experts alike (online and in--person)