Epidermis Circus
Jubilant
Insolent
Your cheeks will hurt ! Discover the weirdest puppet show you will ever see. André-Anne LeBlanc uses here her body, hands, and mouth with an ingenious system of cameras, mirrors and live projections. The headliner : Baby Tyler who envelops us into a strange miniature cabaret with insolent humour. After a successful world tour, the Vancouver-based team is here to enchant and make the Quebec audiences laugh. It’s funny, it’s naughty, it’s mystifying.
This show is a recipient of the HoldOver Prize from Edmonton’s Fringe.



Credits
Directing Britt Small
Text Ingrid Hansen and Britt Small
Musical Composition Hank Pine
Costumes Jimbo the Drag Clown
Interpretation André-Anne LeBlanc
French Translation Britt Small, Stephanie Morin-Robert, Chris Coyne, and Florian François
Coproduction and Artistic Collaboration Kathleen Greenfield
Tour Manager Kenny Streule
Puppet Consultant and Additional Jokes Victor Dolhai, Mike Petersen, Rod Peter Jr and Anand Rajaram
SNAFU wishes to thank for their support the CRD Arts Council and the Conseil des arts du Canada, but also the Centre national des arts, Puppetmongers, and Impulse Theatre.

© Steve Chmilar


(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. For the TreehouseTV/Amazon show Miss Persona, Ingrid puppeteers Melissa the Dog, and also choreographed and directed on several music videos, including getting to 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 in Ottawa, the Festival Cervantino in Mexico, by David Byrne of the Talking Heads, The Lincoln Centre in NYC, and more.
(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.
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.
Il a écrit cinq comédies musicales : The Tragical Comedy of Punch and Judy pour le Caravan Farm Theatre, Blisskrieg pour Atomic Vaudeville, Tireseias pour Phoenix Theatre, Yukon Famous pour la Yukon Arts Society et Heatseeker : a Musical about Gayness and Grindr.



Jimbo 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.)
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.
(Il/Lui) Ayant grandi sur une ferme laitière du lac Brome, au sud-est de Montréal, Québec, Kenny a toujours aspiré à travailler dans les arts dramatiques.. Sa passion pour la production l’a amené à créer sa propre compagnie théâtrale qui a produit sa première pièce, City Boy, basée sur la vie de son cousin qui vivait à la campagne. Il a joué dans son premier spectacle autobiographique solo, Malunderstood, au Théâtre MainLine, où il travaillait comme producteur artistique du Théâtre MainLine et du Festival Fringe de Montréal. Il a également joué le narrateur dans The Rocky Horror Show de Richard O’Brien (MainLine Theatre), Lysander/Peter Quince dans A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Montreal Shakespeare Company) et Christopher Marlowe dans Conspiracy ! (Chocolate Moose Theatre Company). Il est également un membre actif de la communauté des arts de la scène de Montréal et a l’opportunité d’être le gestionnaire des opérations pour le retour du Festival Juste Pour Rire/ Just for Laughs durant l’été 2025 . En novembre 2023, il a reçu le prix Unsung Hero of the Theatre décerné par la communauté lors du Montreal English Theatre Award (METAs).