DIRECTOR
Neisha Murphy is the Founder and Director of WonderMaker Creative Pty Ltd.
Neisha is a 'Wonder Maker', and she is assisting people to discover their child-like wonder through imaginative crafted entertainment and experiences. She encourages audiences to enjoy uninhibited engagement with the works, and the joy of being fully present in the moment like a child absorbing every detail without distraction.
Neisha is known as 'The Variety Superstar' in the entertainment industry and has spent the last 20+ years, consistently cultivating her creativity to create unique acts/shows with her trademark style. She is a circus & theatre director and was the recipient of The International Women’s Day Committee Award for Creativity for her docu-series ‘The Non Essential Project’, which is inspired by creatives facing the Covid pandemic crisis.
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Neisha holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications (Theatre and Media) from Charles Sturt University and a Diploma of Circus Arts from New Zealand. She has a strong background in physical arts, earning her black belt and becoming both the Australian karate champion and Sportsperson of the Year before age 12.
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Neisha has worked for many companies, events and festivals internationally and locally in OZ, including The Aurora Spiegletent, The South African State Theatre, Legs on the Wall, The Hoopla Festival, The Flying Kiwi Circus, Circus Aotearoa and the Kidsfest Festival in NewZealand, Viva la gong festival, Arts Projects Australia in Adelaide, The West Australian Ballet, The National Circus Festival, Free Associations production of The Nutcracker, The Circus Proms series with New Zealand’s Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and performed in the famous Spiegeltent for the production of ‘Built’.
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She was featured in the New Zealand Geographic magazine and on an episode of NewZealand’s hippest show Pacific Beat Street. Neisha most recently finished performing her first season of the solo theatre circus/clown show ‘ChaChi and The Sea of Tears’ with The Merrigong Theatre Company and is currently performing her educational touring shows across Australia.
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Neisha’s pedagogy and practice incorporate her extensive experience and training within the Circus Arts and Theatre over the last 20+years. As a professional entertainer, her shows include juggling, object manipulation, facebalancing, slack rope, unicycling, rola bola stacking and using humour to interact with her audiences.
She adores creating & performing bespoke skills and even makes her own purpose built props to do the trick/s! She is always inventing and using her imagination to wow audiences with things they have literally, never seen before! Imagine drinking and balancing wine glasses atop her very own purpose built face balance platform! Stacking glasses underneath a triple stack rola bola and juggling 5 balls. Creating a LED platespinning bicycle, a ring toss screen for roving entertainment or performing her WORLD FIRST/ WORLD RECORD Fire saw face balance whilst skipping a rope... She is always striving to be better and give audiences the time of their life.
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* Legs on the Wall
* SPARK Refugee circus skills program
* NZ Clown Doctor
* CCT Gifted Children’s Circus Workshop
* Burgh Circus Classes
* Circus Monoxide
* Kidsfest Circus Workshops
* Milkcrate Circus Workshop Series
