Ingrid Hansen

Raised by gregarious Danish immigrants, Ingrid loves talking to strangers. In 2006 she co-founded SNAFU Dance Theatre to create unexpected theatre, dance, and puppet theatre.Ingrid has created and performed original work with SNAFU at events curated by The Belfry Theatre, the Next Stage Festival, the Gabriola Theatre Festival, the SummerWorks Festival, The Great Canadian Theatre Centre, The Centaur Theatre, Theatre Direct, The Evergreen Cultural Centre, the PUSH Festival, and more. SNAFU books tours of Little Orange Man, Kitt & Jane: An Interactive Survival Guide to the Near-Post-Apocalyptic Future, The Merkin Sisters, Interstellar Elder, and Snack Music. Outside of SNAFU, she has performed with Corpus Theatre, Story Theatre, Theatre Direct, The Quickening, Theatre SKAM, Shakespeare in the Ruff, Architect Theatre, Atomic Vaudeville, and Suddenly Dance Theatre, with shows in Canada, the US, Europe and Japan.Since 2006, Ingrid has built an ongoing collaboration with the inmates at the prison theatre company William Head on Stage, which is run by the inmates inside a federal prison and performs for the public. She has worked on their annual fall production nearly every year since 2008, in varying roles as director, actor, design mentor, and choreographer. In 2013 she co-directed The Prison Puppet Project with Peter Balkwill from the Old Trout Puppet Workshop.In addition to the 'big kids' behind bars, Ingrid loves working with children. On TV, she is a lead puppeteer and voice actor for four seasons of the children's television series Tiga Talk on APTN, and the moon monster in Princess Sparkly Butt and the Hot Dog Kid. She works as Firefly Artist animating classrooms with Theatre Direct, and helped to pioneer a surreal object-puppetry show for kindergartens called Lost & Found, of which children said, "It's magic," and "She's a witch!" She collaborated with the Snack Music Collective on some puppetry magic for Table Top Tales which premiered at the WeeFestival in Toronto, and is recurring puppeteer for Theatre Direct's Dora-Award-Winning puppetry piece The Old Man and the River.Ingrid roams the country teaching physical theatre and puppetry workshops for adults, children, professionals, first-timers, and prison inmates. Show less «