Doppelgangster are an international performance company, currently creating work in the UK and Australia. Doppelgangster are iconoclastic, politically charged, and not very well behaved. The company’s operations work to critique contemporary issues at local, national and global levels. Doppelgangster responds to urgent concerns such as climate change, forced migration, and corporatism

Current projects include work for unconventional spaces, theatres, and communities; using intimate face-to-face encounters, large scale spectacles, and digital technologies.

Doppelgangster was founded in 2015. Since then the company has presented work in (in this order) Wales, England, France, Singapore, Australia, Greece, Czechia, Latvia, Spain, and online. If you’ve witnessed Doppelgangster it might have been from a shipping container, a carpark, a lane-way, a gallery, a lecture theatre, a town hall, a stage, a converted barn, a cinema, a lawn bowls club, a garage, an old school, a fetish club, on the banks of a river, a back porch, a kitchen, a concrete vault underneath London’s Waterloo station, a former WW2 fascist boot factory, and/or Paris’ Grande Palais.

Doppelgangster are currently a company-in-residence at Sheffield Hallam University. The company’s founding was thanks to the support of organisations such as National Theatre Wales, and an initial company-in-residence (2015-2016) at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. The company has had funding from state, LGI, and private sources, and no-one in the company steals all that often really.

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