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Human Cargo's network of theatre professionals is vast, spanning several national and cultural divides. Find out more about the projects bringing them together. |
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Michelle Fisk Ontario |
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Benjamin Clost Canada Creator Benjamin Clost is a graduate of George Brown College's Theatre Arts Program. He has worked with Christopher Morris on several projects including: Road at Equity Showcase, I Am Yours also at Equity Showcase and most recently he traveled with Chris to Nunavut to help with his production of Night. Ben's past credits include: Mozart in Amadeus at Theatre Aquarius, Timon in the Chicago production of The Lion King, Kelly in My Fellow Creatures at Theatre Passe Muraille and Ashmol in the world premier of Pobby and Dingan at LKTYP. Ben can be seen acting just about anywhere in Canada or performing with his band the Emotionally Unavailable Mariners. |
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Lamech Kadloo Nunavut |
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Annabella Piugattuk Nunavut |
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Anna Svava Iceland |
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Jennifer Morehouse Canada |
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Susanna Hood Ontario |
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Gudjon Palmarsson Iceland Actor Gudjon Thorsteinn Palmarsson was born 24th of august 1974. Gudjon studied acting at ArtsEd School of Acting London and graduated with a BA Hons in 2003. Gudjon’s first project after graduation was Ulfhams Saga with the theatre group Annad Svid in collaboration with Hafnarfjardarleikhusid. From there he went on to perform at the Reykjavik City Theatre. In Saumastofan 30 arum Sienna he played the part of Arni and in Goodbye Stranger he played the part of Dan, a male prostitute and amateur actor. With the theatre group Hid Lifandi Leikhus Gudjon performed in Image, a play by Andri Snaer Magnason and Thorleifur Arnarson, where Gudjon played Ingvar, an Everest climber. With Hid Lifandi Leikhus performed Image at The Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin 2007. 2006/2007 Gudjon was with Leikfelag Akureyrar. With L.A. Gudjon played the part of Slavik in Ladybird by V. Sigarev, directed by Jón Páll Eyjólfsson. In The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Magnus Geir Thordarson, Gudjon performed as a puppeteer. Gudjon has directed several amdram theatre companies all around Iceland. Last credits include The Blue Planet by Andri Snaer Magnason in Vestmannaeyjar, and Examination with the University Theatre. Gudjon was nominated as Best Director for Allra Kvikinda Liki at ACT NOW theatre festival 2005. Gudjon has worked extensively with new writing and has written a number of adaptations for the stage from many different mediums. Gudjon played the part of Halldor in the TV series PRESSA. This coming season Gudjon will be directing Lapur, Skrapur og Jólaskapid at Leikfelag Akureyrar. |
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Sven Nullmeyer Germany Film Artist Sven Holly Nullmeyer has worked as a video artist, writer and musician since the early nineties. He co-founded the literature/multimedia collective “Das Labor” in Berlin in 1992. With “Das Labor” he published a number of poems and short texts, among them the text collection Das Mikroskop der Katze (1992). In 1996 Mr. Nullmeyer studied documentary video making with Amintashu Das during an internship at the production facility Global Village in New York. Since then, he has self-produced a number of documentaries (Samsara, Andalusia, 1997), worked as a video documentarist for various theatre productions, and produced numerous short movies and video art pieces, such as the installation Eurydice Remix (Gallery Berlin-Tokyo, 1999) and the short video Loop City (shown at the Pixelfestival 2, Berlin 2006). His video art was exhibited at various venues in Berlin, among them the Galerie der Künste, and Spain (art fair ARCO, Madrid, Gallery Sandunga, Granada, etc.). In theatre, Holly Nullmeyer worked as a dramaturge for the Theatre Asylum in Toronto, Canada from 1992 – 1996. He has also collaborated as a musician and video artist with the Berlin-based choreographer Walter Bickmann on various dance/multimedia-pieces, among them “Blaubart – Die letzten Männer” (Volksbühne @ Prater, Berlin) and “J.R.’s Stiefel” (Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Berlin). His work has led to journeys to Tbilisi, Georgia (with the visionary Canadian theatre innovator Paul Thompson), and Cape Town, South Africa, among other places. In 2007 he was part of the theatre/multimedia project Night, in the Inuit-village of Pond Inlet. Samples of his work can be viewed at www.qosmo.org. |









