Doppelgängster is an international performance collective that thrives on disruption, provocation, and theatrical mischief. We create work that refuses easy answers – interrogating urgent crises of our time: climate breakdown, forced migration, economic instability, and the dizzying swirl of misinformation. Our performances are as much about difficult questions, as nonsense, society and spectacle.

Since 2015, we’ve taken our work far and wide – from shipping containers and car parks to disused factories and grand palaces – challenging expectations of what performance can be and where it can happen. We’re equally at home staging intimate encounters and sprawling civic rituals, blending live art, digital technology, and sound into experiences that are urgent, messy, and alive.

Currently active across the UK and Australia, Doppelgangster is a company-in-residence at Sheffield Hallam University, building on foundations laid with support from National Theatre Wales, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, et al. Funded through a patchwork of state, private, and community sources, we keep a watchful eye on budgets – and on each other, making sure no one runs off with costumes and props (too often).

If you’re ready for something unpredictable, unsettling, and impossible to ignore… We are your Doppelgängster.

A CULTURAL RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, FORCED MIGRATION AND GLOBALISATION

– IETM’S FRESH PERSPECTIVES IV: ‘ART FOR THE PLANET’S SAKE’

 

THEATRICAL SABOTEURS

– THE AGE (AUSTRALIA)

 

PUTTING THE DADA IN CLIMATE DANGER

– CAPE FAREWELL

 

WILDLY EXPERIMENTAL AND WILDLY ENTERTAINING

– DAILY REVIEW

 

ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING ENVIRONMENTAL AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST THEATRE COMPANIES

– THE STAR (UK)
 

DIRECTORS

Dr Tom Payne
Tobias Manderson-Galvin

You can read more about Tobias and Tom here:

drtompayne.co.uk

tobiasmandersongalvin.com

ASSOCIATES

2022-2024

Kerith Manderson-Galvin (Australia) | Dramaturgy
Patrick Fielding (Australia) | Composition

Becky Payne | Photography

2020-2021

Jules Pascoe (Australia) | Composition
Kerith Manderson-Galvin (Australia) | Dramaturgy
Becky Payne | Photography

2018-19

Jules Pascoe (Australia) | Composition
Kerith Manderson-Galvin (Australia) | Dramaturgy
Sarah April Lamb (UK) | Choreography
Wilson Liew | Photography
Becky Payne | Photography

2017-18

Jules Pascoe (Australia) | Composition
Kerith Manderson-Galvin (Australia) | Performance Making
Maria Moles + Adam Halliwell | Composition
Wilson Liew | Photography
Becky Payne | Photography

2016-17

Ruby Donohoe (Australia) | Choreography
Jules Pascoe (Australia) | Composition
Antoinette Barboutis (Australia) | Performance/Scenography
Wilson Liew | Photography

2015-16

Rachel Helena Walsh (Ireland/Wales) | Performer
Jimin Lim (Korea) | Director, Performer
Jules Pascoe (Australia) | Composer
Jorge Lizalde (Spain/Wales) | Photographer, Videographer
High Speed Wilson (England) | Creative Producer, Consultant
Antoinette Barboutis (Australia) | Scenographer