Profile – Hayley Davis

Hayley Davis, also known as Parados Productions, creates participatory theatre for young audiences through puppetry and visual design on the Sunshine Coast. After studying design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, Hayley gleaned an array of skills and knowledge as a fashion designer in London and Copenhagen.

Over the last 20 years Hayley has designed and crafted sets and costumes for a number of theatre productions. Hayley is also a primary and secondary educator of visual art, design, music, dance, English and drama. Parados publishes innovative, curriculum-aligned teaching resources and runs school holiday puppet making workshops.

Proposed Project

IYE is a puppetry and circus performance for children and families, involving audience participation. 

Synopsis: After the big melt people learned to adapt and survive, but music and art had been forgotten. When a young girl digs up an ancient harp from the last layers of permafrost in old Siberia, worlds of long ago become closer than she imagined. 

My academic and creative research is centred around the development and reformation of cultures. The play explores what the future might look like if more and more humans were to occupy the polar regions, as places closer to the equator become too warm to inhabit. The word İye, the title of the play, means spirit. The play explores the idea of environmental entities having personhood and rights.

Confirm outcomes you want from Supported by Anywhere Festivals

“I would love to further develop a play for young audiences in collaboration with Catbird Theatre, and tour this work to schools around Queensland, starting with the Sunshine Coast and inner city Brisbane,” – Hayley Davis

Why being part of Supported by Anywhere Festivals is important to your project

“I love the the concept of unconventional spaces being used at a performance space. Anywhere Festival has support lots of great emerging companies, as a newly established company, I would love to reach broader audiences.” – Hayley Davis

Thanks to the visionary support of the Sunshine Coast Council Creative Industries Investment Program, Anywhere Festivals is thrilled to announce Hayley Davis as one of the first three creatives Supported by Anywhere Festivals—a groundbreaking new initiative designed to elevate creative work beyond the conventional.