Big Monkey Inc

Roz Wren is a freelance designer/maker and teacher, specialising in theatrical costumes, sets, props and puppets plus puppet making and visual merchandising workshops.

In the beginning……Roz trained in London as visual merchandiser. Her mother taught her to sew, a skill which came in handy when she was required to make fancy dress costumes for numerous parties held in the world of West End window dressers.

 Roz became involved in theatrical costume design and manufacture for Big Monkey (formerly Theatre Alfresco) 15 years ago and has been their principal designer/maker since then. She was the recipient of an Emerging Theatre Artists grant in 2000 and worked for Terrapin Puppet Theatre with mentor Greg Methe on ‘The Dark at the top Of the Stairs’ and has subsequently worked on many of their shows, she co-designed ‘Con Artists’ and designed ‘Explosion Therapy’.

Since then Roz has worked for (and will continue to if you have a job for her) every theatre company in Hobart in various capacities, from designing through – costume/puppet manufacture, set and prop construction, set painting, sculpting, teaching, to sandwich making – both foam/fabric and cucumber.

In 2011 Roz will be -

• Designer for Moonah’s cultural food festival ‘The Fabric of our Table’
• Costumier for ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’
• Puppet/costume maker for Terrapin’s production of ‘When the Pictures Came’
• Art Camp Leader for the Falls Festival Parade.
• Event Themer for Leishman and Associates corporate gala dinners.

And, hopefully, designer for Big Monkey’s production of …???? Stay tuned…