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Pop Up Playground

Playgrounds are places where it’s safe to play – but it doesn’t have to be all monkey bars and swings.

Pop Up Playground creates new playgrounds for all, in new places, with new games and experiences.

Come play with us!

The Pop Up Players

Robert Reid is a freelance playwright, director and academic. He was Artistic Director and a founding member of the independent theatre company Theatre in Decay and also of the experimental puppet and visual theatre company Terrible Comfort. He most recently had his play The Joy of Text produced at Melbourne Theatre Company. Robert recently published Hello World! Promoting the Arts on the Net, a Platform Paper for Currency House. He is the editor of Australian Puppeteer, the national puppetry magazine for UNIMA Australia; a reviewer for theatrealive.com; a panelist for the Greenroom awards Alternative and Hybrid Panel; a regular panelist for Arts Victoria; and host of the Meant to Be Spoken events for the Melbourne Writers Festival. He graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a post graduate diploma in directing in 2000, holds a Masters Degree in Creative Industry (Scriptwriting) from Queensland University of Technology and is currently completing a PhD in Australian Theatre History at La Trobe University.

Sayraphim Lothian is an award winning artist and teacher who has worked on films, tv and in theatre, in museums and galleries, in schools and at festivals, creating magical worlds and experiences for people of all ages. Sayraphim is also investigating street art installations as a means of playfully engaging with the public and one of her current street craft projects, Gilding the City, can be found in the streets of a number of cities around the world including London, Paris, Canberra, Portland and Seattle. Sayraphim and her work can be found in a number of books and publications including Garth Johnson’s 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse, Vickie Howell’s Craft Corps and Heads On and We Shoot: The Making of Where The Wild Things Are from McSweeny’s Publishing. Her work is held in MOMA in New York, the archives of the National Gallery of Victoria, in the Monash Heart Art collection and in private collections around the world.

Paul Callaghan is a writer, game designer, and educator. He has worked with Infinite Interactive, AIE, 2K Marin, Chocolate Liberation front, the ABC, and The Project Factory; spoken on writing and games at the National Screenwriters’ Conference, GCAP, VITTA, TEDxMelbourne, the Emerging Writers’ Festival, the State Library of Victoria, Screen Australia, ACMI, CAE, and RMIT; and has written online at if:Book Australia, Kill Your Darlings, ibrary, The Edge, and The Australia Council for the Arts, and in print in the Emerging Writers’ Festival Reader, Newswrite, Storyline, and Meanjin.

Ben McKenzie is an actor, scientician, comedian, feminist, improviser, geek, voiceover artist, gamer, presenter, nerd and ginger. ‘One of Melbourne’s Kings of Geek Comedy’ (Squirrel Comedy), Ben was a member of sketch group The Anarchist Guild Social Committee, co-created Channel 31 variety show Planet Nerd, writes and performs comedy science lectures, and is a regular performer at political stand-up room Political Asylum. He is currently best known for the improvised role-playing comedy Dungeon Crawl, and the Museum Comedy tours at Melbourne Museum, a fixture of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival since 2008. As well as Pop Up Playground, Ben’s current projects include a new games podcast, provisionally titled Losing an Eye, and the exapansion of Museum Comedy and Dungeon Crawl beyond Melbourne. Ben’s Internest is labcoatman.com.au, and you should definitely follow him on Twitter at @labcoatman. His favourite dinosaur is Stegosaurus.

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