Sticky Apple Legs was established in mid 2003 by three graduates from Swinburne University’s ‘Small Companies and Community Theatre’ course, in Melbourne, Australia. Susan Biviano, Naomi Guss, and Hye Jean (Jeany) Lee became friends through the course, and once graduating in 2002, decided to do a show for the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2003. The three of us come up with the ideas and script for the shows, make the puppets, as well as contribute towards the finances. We also perform within the shows. We all have different skills and experience, and not only work within this company, but often work with other theatre groups, venues and productions.
Susan is our Production Manager. She takes care of the finances, and generally runs the administration side of things. She also made some lovely costumes for us to wear! Susan’s experience in theatre is diverse - she has written, directed, performed, and done many more things. She regularly works with Platform Youth Theatre in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
Naomi is our Technical Coordinator, looking after things like insurance, venues, lighting and sound, extra cast or crew, and other such technical aspects of a production. Naomi also has taken on much of the publicity. Naomi has worked as a theatre technician with many professional theatre companies around Melbourne, including Arena Theatre Company, Red Stitch Actors Company, La Mama, community venues and other fringe groups. She also ran a not-for-profit online theatre publication for four years, and worked for Arts Hub.
Jeany is our Puppetry Designer and Coordinator. She came from Korea to learn puppetry in Australia, and she has become a teacher instead! She teaches Susan and Naomi many skills and techniques to create the unique puppets used in their shows. As well as coordinating all of our efforts towards making the puppets, she designs many of them, and quite often designs and builds the larger or more difficult set pieces. Jeany has extensive experience working in puppetry, having spent over ten years creating and performing puppetry in Korea. She has worked for a children’s television program there, and currently works as a venue technician at Swinburne’s David Williamson Theatre.
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