ABOUT
Clown. Bouffon. Physical Comedian. Teacher. Director.
Kimberley is a clown, bouffon, physical comedian, teacher and director based in Melbourne. Passionate about ferocious physical comedy and contemporary clown, Kimberley has full belief in the power of 'the stupid'.
Her most recent achievement is winning Best Comedy at Melbourne Fringe 2023 for her ensemble show Stickybeak, also receiving a five star review in The Age. Kimberley can be seen performing in her award-winning queer comedy troupe PO PO MO CO. She is a member of The Wholesome Hour who were Green Award winning artists in 2021 for Best Theatre Design. She initiated the roving performance troupe Brunswick East Entertainment Festival. She is performer and producer of The Bouffonery - who make bouffon theatre.
Kimberley is founder of the Melbourne Physical Theatre School a training place for physical theatre grounded in the Lecoq Methodology. She has taught at NICA, VCA, Women*s Circus, Westside Circus, Laugh Masters Academy, Collarts, The Blue Room Theatre and Union House Theatre.
She has trained at the schools of Giovanni Fusetti, John Bolton and Ecole Philippe Gaulier. She is under pedagogic mentorship with Giovanni Fusetti. She graduated from Bachelor of Creative Industries Drama QUT in 2009. She has taught at Women*s Circus, Footscray Community Arts, Collarts, NICA and the Victorian College of the Arts.
Kimberley is currently in her second year studies of Gestalt Pyschotherapy at the Relational Skills Centre, Melbourne.
She has written two articles for independent theatre press Witness Performance and one article for Midsumma Festival.
Directing:
Strict as physical comedy
Available to direct shows, co-devise new projects, attend work-in-progress showings and give feedback.
Interested in working with performers who are curious clowns or idiots who prioritize bodies, play and physicality.
The Pageant
Company: The Beryls
Directed by Kimberley Twiner
Character comedy, satire, audience interactive
WINNER Adelaide Fringe Weeky Award
"The Pageant holds a magnifying glass to their distorted ideas of beauty, archaic and sexualised notions of gender and harmful practices toward children. The bright façade and dark underbelly was intense and disturbing, and still I had a lot of fun." Nothingeverhappensinbrisbane
The Five Year Old Girl
A grotesque physical comedy.
Co-devisor and Performer: Phoebe Mason.
Director and Co-devisor: Kimberley Twiner.
Performed as part of La Mama Explorations December 2022.
Jofus and The Whale
Performed by Lily Fish
Company: Fish & Twiner's Bait Shop
Directed by Kimberley Twiner
'An example of clown work in the modern era, utilising slapstick, very physical comedy and self-referential humour to depict an unconventional retelling of a prolific work of literature.' - Farrago Magazine
'Jofus and the Whale is genuinely funny and surprising and endearing.' - Witness Performance
'Charming, diverting and admirable.' - Stage Whispers
Jofus and The Plank
Performed by Lily Fish
Company: Fish & Twiner's Bait Shop
Directed by Kimberley Twiner
Winner 'BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE' New Zealand Fringe 2020
'Flawlessly executed physical comedy.' - Stage Whispers
'Physical theatre at it's best.' - Australian Stage
The Travelling Sisters
Company: The The Travelling Sisters
Directed by Kimberley Twiner
Kimberley has co-devised and directed three shows with The Travelling Sisters they have been collaborating since 2016.
Winners 'BEST COMEDY' Melbourne Fringe 2017
Winners 'NEW ZEALAND TOUR READY' Melbourne Fringe 2017
Nominated 'BEST NEWCOMER' Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2017
Maggot
Company: The Baby Girls
Directed by Kimberley Twiner
'Gleefully anarchic... Indisputable charm.' - Theatrescenes NZ
'Each micro expression, each awkwardly held silence, each contortion of body language, was flippin' hilarious.' - Afterywork.com
The Shows
Performing in devised physical comedy since 2012
2023
Stickybeak
The Beaks
A physical, character comedy about the neigbours you know and love to hate.
5 stars in The Age!
Winner Best Comedy Melb Fringe 2023
Devised and performed by Jessie Ngaio, Patrick Dwyer, Laura Trenerry and Kimberley Twiner.
Directed by Lily Fish.
2022
We Too Us Too Me Too Too Too
Physical & Political
A satirical, grotesque Bouffon show about rape and murder in Melbourne.
La Mama Theatre 2022
Directed by Rinske Ginsberg
Devised and performed by Ell Sachs, Lucy Kingsley, Nick O'Regan.
Devised with Fabio Motta, Maria Silva and Giovanni Fusetti.
2022
Polite Mammals
The Wholesome Hour
Children's sketch comedy and music show.
ArtPlay, Birrung-Marr, Melbourne
Devised by Kimberley Twiner, Lily Fish, Ell Sachs and Sunanda Sachatrakul.
Directed by Rinske Ginsberg.
2021
The Wholesome Hour
The Wholesome Hour
Kids comedy TV show.
Green Room Award for Best Theatre Design
Watch it HERE
Created by Kimberley Twiner, Ell Sachs, Lily Fish, Angela Fouhy and Jack Lewis. Animation by Sebastion Berto.
2019
PO PO MO CO present 'Once Upon a Drag Storytime
PO PO MO CO
''Ten out of ten for fun!' - Weekend Notes
Physical comedy kids sketch show for rainbow families.
Midsumma Festival 2019
Gasworks Arts Park 2020
Directed by Liz Skitch.
2019
PO PO MO CO present 'Flutter and Flounce'
PO PO MO CO
'Phenomenal femme queer clowning.' - Emilie Collyer
WINNER of New Zealand Tour Ready Award
NOMINATED Best Comedy
NOMINATED for the Green Room Award for Experimental Theatre
New Zealand Fringe Festival 2020
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2019
Outside Eye by Maude Davey
2018
Not Romeo and Juliet
Kimberley Twiner & Lily Fish
'Flawlessly executed physical comedy.' - Stage Whispers
'What's striking about their work is their ability to make physical comedy so precise.' - Arts Review
Clown comedy.
La Mama Theatre
Midsumma Festival 2018
Perth Fringe Festival 2019
Devised with Giovanni Fusetti.
Outside Eye by Steph Kehoe.
2018
Dudebox
Dudebox Cabaret
A drag king comedy cabaret featuring award winning artists.
Collaboration with The Travelling Sisters, Selina Jenkins, Becky Lou, Sharnema Noughar and PO PO MO CO.
Melbourne Fringe 2018
Directed by Kimberley Twiner.
2016/2017
PO PO MO CO present 'Recreation and Leisure'
PO PO MO CO
WINNER 'Original New Circus' Melbourne Fringe 2017
NOMINATED 'Best Comedy' Melbourne Fringe 2017
★★★★½
'Poingantly the worst queer nightmare of the Australian Christian Lobby.' - Theatrepeople.com
Melbourne Comedy Festival 2017
Melbourne Fringe 2017
Devised sketch, physical comedy.
Directed by Liz Skitch.
2016
The Intensive Intensive Intensive
Kimberley Twiner
'Stella Luhrmann presents a life changing theatre workshop.'
Character comedy/interactive parody theatre workshop.
Melbourne Fringe 2016
Performed by Kimberley Twiner. Assistant played by Warren Herbu.
Directed by Liz Skitch.
2015
The Baby Girls
The Baby Girls
'The U.K. pop group changing the world one community workshop at a time.'
Character comedy & sketch.
Melbourne Fringe 2015
Devised and performed by Elle Wooten, Angela Fouhy, Freya Finch and Kimberley Twiner.
2014
BASHA
Kimberley Twiner
'The cave-clown warrior love child of Cher & Encino Man.'
Character comedy, clown, interactive.
Edinburgh Fringe 2014
Melbourne Fringe 2014
Funny Babe Fest 2015
Seven Sisters Fest 2015
London Clown Fest 2016
Cafe Haratzi, Cyrpus 2016
Directed by Liz Skitch.
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