

Show Program
Meet the Team

Creator / Storyteller
Davey Seagle (he/they)
Davey is a graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, and works as a performer, director, producer, writer. Working largely as the founder & director of Ponydog Productions. His award-winning work has toured nationally, with the Sydney Fringe Award nominated There's Something About Bottom and Meet::Cute debuting this year, and his flagship show TattleTales: Immersive Tarot Storytelling winning "The Spirit of the Fringe" (Adelaide Fringe '23) and nominated for 4 other awards including "Best Theatre" (Melbourne Fringe '22). Other Ponydog work includes the sci-fi romp Hotel Bella Luna (Flight Path Theatre), The Agency (London Horror Festival), and co-presenting Spectacle & Mirth's Journey to the Kingdom of Hypnos which recieved "Best Immersive" & "The Spirit of the Fringe" awards at Sydney Fringe this year.
Other recent performance credits include: The Sweet Science of Bruising & Fuente Ovejuna! (Flight Path Theatre), The Angry Brigade (New Theatre), Doing (Puddle or Pond/KXT), Nazanin’s Story (UK tour, Howell Productions), and The Inaccurate Perception of Lara Grace (Two Shoes Films), and Scenes from Student Life (BBC Radio 4).
Other producer credits include: Much Ado (Flight Path Theatre), the aforementioned The Inaccurate Perception of Lara Grace, and the songs of Bards For Hire, which makes custom music commissions for gifts, games, and role-play gamers which are streamable wherever you get your music. Other writing credits include work as a ghost writer on indie feature film I Was a Soldier (Lexicon Films, 2023). Davey is a proud member of MEAA.

Co-Creator / Storyteller
Lachlan Ruffy (he/him)
Lachlan Ruffy has garnered acclaim for his versatility as a performer, writer, teacher and creator. On stage, he has performed in roles as dynamic and varied as Eddie in Fool for Love, Edward Ridgeway in Switzerland, Coulmier in 'Marat/Sade', Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing and Jamie in The Last 5 Years. He has appeared in numerous television series, including ABC’s Rake and Total Control. He can be heard as one of the narrators in Kirsten Alexander’s Riptides, an Australian thriller published by Penguin Random House. He is a frequent collaborator with many immersive performance companies across Australia. With Underground Cinema, he has appeared in Dream and Delirium. He also took part in Immersive Cinema’s Dirty Dancing as a compere/dance instructor. For Ponydog Productions, he has co-devised and appeared in Hotel Bella Luna (an improvised escape room) as Herschel/Dennis/Hermann Mann (The German Man). For the same company, he co-devised TattleTales, an immersive storytelling experience, using tarot cards to shape a story created by the Teller and the audience. Among this, Ruffy is an experienced improvisor, writer and storyteller. Along with frequent collaborator Kieran Clancy-Lowe, Ruffy formed The Flaming Koklans, an improv-acoustic-folk duo. The two produce improvised sketches and podcasts together, as well as performing live.

Set Designer (Sydney Fringe 2023)
Ash Bell (she/her)
Ash is a production designer and visual art teacher, primarily working as a set and costume collaborator across video art, film, theatre, events and music video. After graduating from AFTRS, Ash has gone on to work with clients such as Qantas, Unilever and Absolut, and has designed music videos for Australian recording artists Julia Jacklin, Rainbow Chan, RÜFUS Du Sol, Ricki-Lee and Woodes. Most recently she has production designed for the Cannes Indie Shorts nominated and Flickerfest comedy award winning short film 'Butter: A Love story' (Madeleine Withington/Brosis). Her theatre costume and production design credits include Amadeus (Genesian), 'The Canterbury Tales' (New Theatre), 'Ghost Train' (Genesian), 'Year of The Family' (KXT), 'This is not Mills and Boon' (Old 505), 'Much Ado' (Flightpath) 'ApockaWockaLockalypse' (Meraki) and both iterations of 'U.B.U' (KXT) with Tooth and Sinew.

Lighting/Sound Designer
Sophie Parker (she/her)
Sophie Parker is a lighting designer living on unceded Gadigal land. She enjoys working with new technologies on novel theatrical designs. Her recent work with Sport for Jove includes Romeo & Juliet (2023, 2022, 2019), As You Like It (2021), & Twelfth Night (2019), as well as Corpus Viderum (RanRun Studio/Vivid Sydney 2022), The Sweet Science of Bruising (Theatre Travels 2022), Puppets (Panimo Pandemonium 2022), and Tattletales (2021-23) & Hotel Bella Luna (2020) with Ponydog Productions. When she's not busy in tech week, Sophie can be found tinkering at her workbench at home.

Set Designer (original)
Amy Rose Jackson (she/her)
Amy is a multi-disciplinary designer who graduated from NIDA (2021) with a BFA in Design for Performance. Since childhood, Amy has been an explorer of the world’s wonders and aims to create beauty through different art mediums. She works collaboratively to create uniquely stylised work, incorporating her whimsical style and sense of fun into every project. Originally from regional Western Australia, Amy is now Sydney based and brings her knowledge of Interior Decoration to her design work having attained a Cert IV in Interior Decoration from Bunbury Regional TAFE (2016). Currently, she splits her time between dressing and working on independent design opportunities, including making and buying. Her work can be seen at amyrosejackson.com

Costume Designer (original)
Alloquois Callaway-Hoilman (she/her)
Alloquois is an American-born, Sydney-based costume maker and designer. She began her education in the arts in high school, where she worked backstage on student and school productions. After high school, Alloquois decided to further her education in the theatrical arts by moving to Australia and attending NIDA. At NIDA Alloquois had the opportunity to expand her skill set to include supervisory roles, as well as gaining a passion for costume design. She graduated in 2020 with a BFA in costume. As a designer Alloquois has an ambition to display the unusual, explore new stories, and push the limits of material possibility on screen and on stage.

See more of our work
Journey to the Kingdom of Hypnos
A Spectacle & Mirth production, presented in collaboration with Ponydog Productions.
Memory invites you to close your eyes and travel down...but beware! Oblivion's river is spilling over her shores and threatens the Waking. An award winning immersive underworld audio adventure.
Do you remember where Sleep is, Dear Ones?
Mnemosyne invites you to close your eyes and journey to the court of that benevolent Greek god-creature of Slumber. But beware, in this Underworld the River of Oblivion is spilling over her shores and threatens the Waking.
Discover the vast environs of collective unconsciousness in this award winning immersive underworld audio adventure.
*****
WINNER:
Spirit of the Fringe Award (Sydney Fringe '23)
Best Immersive/Interactive (Sydney Fringe '23)
Best Event (Adelaide Fringe '23)
There's Something About Bottom
An immersive experience of fairy mischief inspired by "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Shakespeare's favourite ass.
The Fairy Queen Titania, has a lot on their plate. Their ex has sent their minion Puck to cause havoc, their adopted/kidnapped child has gone missing, and they have fallen in love with a Bottom.
With the fairy realm descending into chaos, join forces with your fellow participants to solve problems, meddle with mortals, and navigate the escalating chaos to save the day before the end of Midsummer Night.
Will you help restore the natural order or revel in the delightful mayhem?
Part theatre, part game, mostly nonsense, you can decide who ends up on top.
*****
NOMINATED FOR:
Best Immersive/Interactive (Sydney Fringe '23)
Director's Note
... And we're back! A year older, and debatably wiser. It has flown past.
There is a rather strange thing that happens in our brains when someone talks to us. They open their mouths, and we start casually hallucinating. We see places we have never been and fall in love with people we've never met. We don't even question it, we just call it storytelling.
I love that feeling. It's such a place of comfort and magic. I wanted to share it because I suspect you feel the same.
Once upon a time, this show began in September 2021 during post-COVID lockdown panic. I was contacted by Kate Bookallil at Flight Path Theatre, with a job offer along the lines of:
"Hi Davey, we suddenly have free space in the theatre and nothing to put in it. Only 10 people at a time are allowed in. We know you like making weird stuff. Wanna make weird stuff?"
I did. I did want to make weird stuff.
It went from a crazy idea to a full production in less than 2 months. We loved it, and now we're just keeping it going!
I hope you liked it, and that you enjoy your rock.
Thank yous
To my beautiful team. Those who helped me bring this to life, and those who have joined us along the way. Special shout-outs to Aaron Cornelius, Sophie Parker & Lachlan Ruffy who have been on board since the beginning, and to Amy Rose Jackson for doing so much since.
You are magic, and I'd be nowhere without you.
And thank YOU, our dear guests. You are the friends we made along the way.
This season of shows is dedicated to Peta Friedman, my ever-supportive godmother who thinks all my stories are crazy, but who takes joy in every one of them. I am thinking about you every day.
... and yeah, sorry, still going. This show has lived many lives, and it has a lot of people to thank!
To Derrin Brown, Linda Taylor, & Taylor Henderson for all your help with the venue, along with Rowan and everyone else at Sydney Fringe, Runaway, and Melbourne Fringe who've worked to get this show running behind the scenes.
To Carmel Clavin, my Reverie Rooms partner in crime (y'all should see Journey to the Kingdom of Hypnos by the way!)
To Natalie Baghoumian for her loving contributions as our stage manager in our first 3 seasons.
To Mliette Blu Ornelas & Nicola Macindoe for your ongoing and life-saving help, and to The Angry Brigadiers, who put up with my ongoing madness and helped keep me sane with your love and support.
And to my family. In the end, words aren't enough.
Music Credits:
A Romantic Moment by Ali Zoghi
Composed for Hotel Bella Luna, Ponydog Productions
https://soundcloud.com/alizoghicomposer
The Other Side of the Door by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4500-the-other-side-of-the-door
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
The Path of the Goblin King v2 by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4502-the-path-of-the-goblin-king-v2
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
The Snow Queen by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4511-the-snow-queen
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Unanswered Questions by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4560-unanswered-questions
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Unseen Horrors by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4569-unseen-horrors
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Virtutes Vocis by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4591-virtutes-vocis
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
This House by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4525-this-house
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Unnatural Situation by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4567-unnatural-situation
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Covert Affair by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3558-covert-affair
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Water Prelude by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4610-water-prelude
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Wizardtorium by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4639-wizardtorium
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Spc X2x (Unseen Presence) by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6738-spc-x2x-unseen-presence-
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
On the Shore by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4167-on-the-shore
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Heart of Nowhere by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3861-heart-of-nowhere
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Sneaky by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4385-sneaky
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Adventures In Adventureland by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/8287-adventures-in-adventureland
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Impact Prelude by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7565-impact-prelude
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Kalimba Relaxation Music by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5711-kalimba-relaxation-music
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Facile by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3733-facile
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4173-opportunity-walksLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Mining by Moonlight by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4055-mining-by-moonlight
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Crossing the Chasm by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3562-crossing-the-chasm
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Private Reflection by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4241-private-reflection
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Consort for Brass by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3540-consort-for-brass
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Court of the Queen by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3557-court-of-the-queen
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Majestic Hills by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4013-majestic-hills
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Fantasy Motion, Farm, Fjeld, One Bard Band, Planning, Tam Lin, The Lone Wolf, Townsong, Mysterious Adventure, Daudir, Hymn to the Gods, The Northern Path, Tavern Brawl, Towards the Horizon, Autumn Walk, Heartbeat, Horsemen Approach by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Four Beers' Polka by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3774-four-beers-polka
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Touching Moments Four - Melody by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4536-touching-moments-four---melody
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
All This by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Future Gladiator by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Love Spell by David Fesliyan, https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music
Movement Proposition by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Please Don't Cry by David Fesliyan, https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music
Tears Wont Stop by David Fesliyan, https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music
Horror Chase: Chapter 1 by David Fesliyan, https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music
Goodbye, My Friend by David Fesliyan, https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music
Sad Winds: Chapter 1 by David Fesliyan, https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music
Sad Winds: Chapter 2 by David Fesliyan, https://www.FesliyanStudios.com
Background Music
Tears of Joy by David Fesliyan, https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music
Seriously by David Fesliyan, https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music
Sneaky Rascal by David Fesliyan, https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music
Moron by David Fesliyan, https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music
Crazy Holiday by David Renda, https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music
Classic Love Scene by Steve Oxen, https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music

About Ponydog Productions
Ponydog Productions is an immersive/interactive theatre company and the brainchild of Davey Seagle.
Debuting at the London Horror Festival in 2018 with their dark-comedy dystopian thriller, The Agency, Ponydog has since immigrated to Sydney where we continue to make weird, and wacky theatre.
Thank you for joining us for this show, and we hope to see you at the next one!
We have some very exciting things in the pipeline...





