Jonno Katz (performer/creator)
Jonno was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. He has an eclectic, untraditional and elaborate movement background. His physical training started with yoga which he has been practicing for 12 years. He spent 6 years training in Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art/dance, and practiced Feldenkrais for 2 years. He teaches contact improvisation as well as physically devised theatre. Other movement forms that he has dabbled in include, Bhangra Masala dance, Adagio, Acrobatics, Salsa, Tango, Flamenco, Le Parkour, Swing, Hip-Hop, Mind-Body Centering, Improvised Dance, Popping, Stage Combat, Tai Chi, Chi Gong, Contemporary & Videography.

Jonno went to the John Bolton Theatre School where he was trained in physically devised theatre using the Le Coq method. Subjects included Neutral Mask, Baal Mask, Half-mask, Mime, Character, Buffont, Clown, Music, Voice & Singing. The main thrust of this training was that creativity springs from freeing up the body. Since leaving school he has been making theatre/comedy and self-producing at numerous festivals throughout the world. His 3 solo shows, Uber Alice – the elaborate adventures of a New Zealand manicurist, CACTUS – the seduction… & Jolly Roger, have all been toured across Canada selling out houses and winning awards. He is known for his anarchic physicality and absurd, surreal story telling.

Michael Rinaldi (performer/creator)
Rinaldi's physical theatre training began at UVIC with Kaz Piesowocki, a disciple of Jerzy Grotowski and a former member of the Polish National Mime troupe. Kaz taught tumbling, mask, and stage combat with a strict, disciplined, old-school approach.
After graduation, Michael's professional acting, writing, and producing projects have gravitated towards stripped down, minimalist theatre, with a strong emphasis on physical comedy.
Select Credits include co-producing, collaborating on, and performing in Lazy Susan for Theatre Melee, Critic's Pick at Vancouver Fringe 2005; co-writing and performing Toothpaste And Cigars for the 2003 Fringe Circuit, currently in development as a feature film; 5 years writing and performing Fort Steele Follies Musical Comedies at Fort Steele Heritage Park; collaborating on and performing in Platonic by Trampoline Theatre, Bremen Germany; operating the King Hrothgar puppet in The Old Trout Puppet Workshop's viking puppet opera Beowulf in Calgary; and performing in Daniel MacIvor's Wild Abandon, with Theatre Skam for Victoria's Uno festival, and the Seattle and New York City Fringe Festivals.
Further training includes two Honours Certificates with Fight Director's Canada, Banff and Montreal; Collaborative Theatre workshop with Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks of Da Da Camera; Character Mask with Peter Anderson and Wayne Specht; and Baby Clown Intensive with John Turner.
Rinaldi has also written, directed, and performed in several short films; and in his spare time, plays guitar, keyboard, percussion, sings lead and backing vocals in his one-man band called The Dolbysisters.

Courtenay Dobbie (director/choreographer/creator)
Courtenay is an actor, dancer, singer, choreographer, and director who has been working professionally in Vancouver for 8 years. She is a graduate of Studio 58 theatre school, trained as a dancer for 18 years, and musical theatre for 12. She has danced in various musical theatre productions in town including West Side Story, She Loves Me, Joan Henry, Cyrano, and the upcoming Little Women for The Chemainus Theatre Festival, as well as dance companies such as DanceArts Vancouver with Judith Marcuse. She has choreographed for such companies as Carousel Theatre, Kaleidoscope Theatre, Axis Theatre, Solo Centric Theatre Festival, Axis Theatre, and Great West Theatre Company. Courtenay has directed plays for Construction Ink and various community projects around Vancouver including leading an acting and dance program for community members at the Kitslilano Community Centre as the resident theatre artist for the summer of 2005.

Courtenay just recently directed the Vancouver Fringe Festival hit Lazy Susan which received the Critics Pick Award from The Georgia Strait and played to sold out crowds. She is the co-artistic director of the musical comedy duo The Pussy Willows with Ajineen Sagal and is the co-artistic director of her own theatre company Theatre Melee with her husband actor, writer, musician, Jeff Gladstone.