OUR TEAM
Louise Clarke
Energetic & eclectic, Louise Clarke is a highly-skilled director, producer & performer with 20 years of stellar experience. Turning streets into stages, Louise has performed in large-scale productions with Amsterdam’s Warner & Consorten, directed Adelaide Fringe’s award-winning Street Theatre Festival & continues to defy gravity in her solo show, Pandora’s Boxes.
Among other major festivals & events , Louise co-produced the Royal Croquet Club celebrated program between 2015 – 2018 – voted best Adelaide Fringe program by The Guardian UK and directs The Stirling Fringe, nominated for 2017 Ruby Award for Community and Regional event over $100,000. Louise also manages Bamboozled’s pop-up circus tents & performs in clever & spontaneous work including vaudeville tribute, The Doogans .
Bamboozled performances around the world:
The Taste of Tasmania, Fremantle Street Arts Festival, The National Circus Festival, The Adelaide Fringe, The Adelaide Festival, OzAsia, Come Out, Catapult, DreamBig Festival, Dark Mofo, Melbourne Comedy festival, Commonwealth Games – Melbourne, Woodford Folk Festival, Floriade, Wonderland Festival, Applause Festival, Adelaide Royal Show, Joondalup Festival, Fairbridge Folk Festival, Lunar Circus, Kiama Kiss Arts Festival, Hoopla Circus Festival, Port Douglas Beach Festival, Gascoyne in May: Exmouth, Carnarvon, Monkey Mia, Evolve Festival, Merge Festival, Provocare, Festivale, Port Festival, Port Adelaide Winterfest, Stirling Fringe, Cairns Festival, Something on Saturdays, Brunswick Picture House, Fun4kids, Coburg Carnivale, SeeChange Jervis Bay Arts Festival in Australia. Pflasterspektakel (Linz), Olala (Lienz), Villach Street Theatre Festival and Feldkirch in Austria. Namur en Mai, Wortegeem Feeste and Les Zurbaines in Belgium. Edmonton Street Performers Festival, Waterloo Buskers Festival, Red Deer, Grande Praire, Canadian National Exhibition, Victoria Buskers Festival, Granville Island, Ottawa Buskers Festival, Just for Laughs, & Street Arts Festival Toronto in Canada. Kim Tom Clown Festival, Shanghai in China. Cest is Best, Zagreb, Croatia. Roskilde and Waves OFF in Denmark. Street Theatre Festival, Dubai. Avignon Street festival, Chalon Sur Saône, Festival Sorties de Bain, Aurillac and Granville in France. Moers International Comedy Festival, Bajazzo (Kunstler & Meer, Cuxhaven, KunstlerMole Busum), Koblenz Arts Festival, Tollwood Festival, Paderborn, Kleines Fest in Germany. Sziget Music Festival, Hungary. Dublin World Championships & Cork Festival, Ireland. Festival of Fools & Belfast Street Festival in N.Ireland. Artisti in Piazza, Proloco Sarnico & La Girandola in Italy. Hitachi Festival, Toyohashi, Ikeburro, Koenij in Japan. World Buskers Festival, Nelson Street Arts Festival, Rotorua Buskers Festival and Auckland Buskers Festival in New Zealand. Saipra Rua, Valenca and Zona B Festival in Portugal. Sibiu Theatre Festival, Romania. Festival Teatro Panova in Russia. The Jozi Comedy Festival in South Africa. Fira de teatre, Fira de Circ de la Bisbal, Tarrega and Valladolid in Spain. Gothenburg in Sweden. Interlaken Gaukerfest, Lenk, Vevey, World Circus Festival Geneva in Switzerland. Frascati [Nes] and De Melkweg, Amsterdam, Overijseel op Straat, Limburg Straat Festival, Ijmuiden Arts Festival, Jungle Warriors Festival, Juggling Convention, Rotterdam Street theatre festival, Vlissingen, Hengelo, Woerden, Festipet, Zeist, Stenen Hoofd, Mooi Weer Spelen, Nijmegen Festival, NDSM, and Oerol in The Netherlands. Glastonbury Music Festival, Winchester Hat Fair, Bath Fringe Festival, Stockton River Festival, Hull Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, London OLYMPICS 2012, Brighton Fringe, Shrewsbury Street Arts Festival, Bath Fringe Festival, Stroud Fringe, Nottingham Riverside Festival, ‘Go out not home’, Norwich, Coventry Festival, Exeter, Stoke-on-Trent, Birmingham, The Tiny Top in U.K. The Moisture Festival, Seattle and Festival of Fools, Vermont, USA.
Director
Festival producer
Physical performer
Venue Designer
Builder
Physical Comedian
World-Class Juggler
Nigel Martin
With ferocious energy & endearing wit, Nigel Martin is a comic vaudevillian performer & one of Australia’s finest jugglers. For 20 years, Nigel has been lighting up audiences across Europe, North America and Asia worldwide with his comic genius, impeccable timing & classically-trained movement. Nigel is also the designer builder behind Bamboozled’s pop-up venues and a musician and composer.
Bamboozled performances around the world:
The Taste of Tasmania, Fremantle Street Arts Festival, The National Circus Festival, The Adelaide Fringe, The Adelaide Festival, OzAsia, Come Out, Catapult, DreamBig Festival, Dark Mofo, Melbourne Comedy festival, Commonwealth Games – Melbourne, Woodford Folk Festival, Floriade, Wonderland Festival, Applause Festival, Adelaide Royal Show, Joondalup Festival, Fairbridge Folk Festival, Lunar Circus, Kiama Kiss Arts Festival, Hoopla Circus Festival, Port Douglas Beach Festival, Gascoyne in May: Exmouth, Carnarvon, Monkey Mia, Evolve Festival, Merge Festival, Provocare, Festivale, Port Festival, Port Adelaide Winterfest, Stirling Fringe, Cairns Festival, Something on Saturdays, Brunswick Picture House, Fun4kids, Coburg Carnivale, SeeChange Jervis Bay Arts Festival in Australia. Pflasterspektakel (Linz), Olala (Lienz), Villach Street Theatre Festival and Feldkirch in Austria. Namur en Mai, Wortegeem Feeste and Les Zurbaines in Belgium. Edmonton Street Performers Festival, Waterloo Buskers Festival, Red Deer, Grande Praire, Canadian National Exhibition, Victoria Buskers Festival, Granville Island, Ottawa Buskers Festival, Just for Laughs, & Street Arts Festival Toronto in Canada. Kim Tom Clown Festival, Shanghai in China. Cest is Best, Zagreb, Croatia. Roskilde and Waves OFF in Denmark. Street Theatre Festival, Dubai. Avignon Street festival, Chalon Sur Saône, Festival Sorties de Bain, Aurillac and Granville in France. Moers International Comedy Festival, Bajazzo (Kunstler & Meer, Cuxhaven, KunstlerMole Busum), Koblenz Arts Festival, Tollwood Festival, Paderborn, Kleines Fest in Germany. Sziget Music Festival, Hungary. Dublin World Championships & Cork Festival, Ireland. Festival of Fools & Belfast Street Festival in N.Ireland. Artisti in Piazza, Proloco Sarnico & La Girandola in Italy. Hitachi Festival, Toyohashi, Ikeburro, Koenij in Japan. World Buskers Festival, Nelson Street Arts Festival, Rotorua Buskers Festival and Auckland Buskers Festival in New Zealand. Saipra Rua, Valenca and Zona B Festival in Portugal. Sibiu Theatre Festival, Romania. Festival Teatro Panova in Russia. The Jozi Comedy Festival in South Africa. Fira de teatre, Fira de Circ de la Bisbal, Tarrega and Valladolid in Spain. Gothenburg in Sweden. Interlaken Gaukerfest, Lenk, Vevey, World Circus Festival Geneva in Switzerland. Frascati [Nes] and De Melkweg, Amsterdam, Overijseel op Straat, Limburg Straat Festival, Ijmuiden Arts Festival, Jungle Warriors Festival, Juggling Convention, Rotterdam Street theatre festival, Vlissingen, Hengelo, Woerden, Festipet, Zeist, Stenen Hoofd, Mooi Weer Spelen, Nijmegen Festival, NDSM, and Oerol in The Netherlands. Glastonbury Music Festival, Winchester Hat Fair, Bath Fringe Festival, Stockton River Festival, Hull Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, London OLYMPICS 2012, Brighton Fringe, Shrewsbury Street Arts Festival, Bath Fringe Festival, Stroud Fringe, Nottingham Riverside Festival, ‘Go out not home’, Norwich, Coventry Festival, Exeter, Stoke-on-Trent, Birmingham, The Tiny Top in U.K. The Moisture Festival, Seattle and Festival of Fools, Vermont, USA.
Jared Stevens
Working on more than 50 festivals over the past decade across every role imaginable, Jared Stevens has “been there, worked that, sold the tee shirt”. Our logistics, programming and systems king, Jared allows Bamboozled Productions to stay on top of our ever growing suite of festivals and events with a spreadsheet and a smile. Alongside working on festivals for a living, in his space time Jared can usually be found somewhere in the world visiting new and exciting festivals gathering ideas, networks, and inspiration for future events.
Producer
Festival Programmer
SARA GIOIOSA
Experienced as a Digital & TV Producer, Sara recently joined the Bamboozled Productions team as Marketing Manager to help spread the word of all the weird, wild & fabulous festivals & programmes Bamboozled Productions are part of. She’s a lover of the arts & enjoys sharing all the quirky ways it brings people together.
