Yvan Karlsson

Training:

John Curtin College of the Arts, Certificate of Arts - Dance 2014

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre - First Hand Program 2015

Philippe Gaulier - Le Jui

The Curious School of Puppetry 2018

Force Majure - INCITE 2018

Perth Festival - LAB program 2019

Yvan Karlsson is a director, movement director, puppetry director & performer from Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia. He is the artistic director of Monkey Brain, a company creating physical & visual theatre for all ages.

AS DIRECTOR: Ophelia (FringeWorld 2016), Tape Tape World (The Wanderlings, Singapore 2019), The Lucky Cat (Monkey Brain, FringeWorld 2021), Dreams of a Lonely Planet (Flying Bicycle Collective, Awesome Festival 2022) & Hell Is Other People (Monkey Brain, The Blue Room Theatre 2023).

AS MOVEMENT DIRECTOR: Deadly Dialogues (Edinburgh Fringe 2017), Confirmation (Dublin & Edinburgh Fringe 2018/19), Steven Berkoff’s EAST (Atticist, Kings Head Theatre 2018) which he was nominated for an ‘Off West End Theatre Award - Best Choreography’ & Lipstuck (Daley Rangi, FringeWorld 2020)

AS PERFORMER: SPLAT! & Nobody Owns the Moon (Spare Parts Puppet Theatre), THE GIANTS (Compagnie Royal De Luxe, Perth Festival 2015), Fearless & CATCH! (Circus MAXIMA), ERTH’s Dinosaur Zoo (ERTH), Leviathan (CIRCA, Perth Festival 2020), Frozen - The Musical (SVEN) & Die Eiskonigin - Das Musical (SVEN/Puppet Captain)

Accolades :

STEPS Youth Dance Scholarship 2015

2018 Offie Nominated: Best Choreography (EAST)

ASSITEJ Next Generation Program 2018 for TYA Festival Tokyo

Completed Choreographic residency at Lizierés in France

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre ‘Artist-In-Residence’ 2021

Minderoo Artist Fund Recipient 2022

Awards :

Nominated: 2018 Off West End Theatre Award for Best Choreography/Movement Direction

Winner: 2023 Blue Room Award for Outstanding Direction or Choreography

Winner: 2023 Blue Room Award for Backstage Award - All Rounder (Yvan Karlsson)