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Ross Browning is a multi-talented professional performer with 30 yrs
experience creating educational performances for young people.
He is an actor, writer, master puppeteer and pianist-composer, with a taste for
jazz.
Ross Studied Acting at The National Institute of Drama( NIDA) and Jazz piano at
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music and at Mt. Hood Community College, Portland,
Oregon, USA.
Between 1984 – 1991, Ross played Lead puppet character "Blinky Bill" in the popular
ABC Children‘s Television Series "The New Adventures of Blinky Bill".
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Ross has written, acted in and composed music for shows produced by :
ABC Children‘s Television , TCN 9, 7 Network (Brisbane), SBS, Film Australia,
Australian Film ,Television Radio & School (AFTRS), The Pageant Theatre in
Education, The Marionette Theatre Of Australia, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre,
Foxtel, The Australian Museum, The Earth Exchange Museum, The Powerhouse
Museum, Screen Sound Australia and has been involved in numerous puppet-based
television commercials and corporate training videos.
In 1987 Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) commissioned Ross to
devise and direct the world‘s first Multi-Camera Television Puppetry Techniques
Workshop for industry professionals. In the same year AFTRS commissioned Ross to
devise a 23 minute Documentary entitled "Television Puppetry Techniques". The
Documentary follows the recording of one episode of the making of the ABC
Children‘s TV Series "The New Adventures of Blinky Bill".
In 1997 David Atkins asked Ross to join him onstage playing lead (puppet) character
Audrey II in his production of "Little Shop Of Horrors", along with an all star cast Garry
Macdonald, Christine Arnu, Mitchell Butel, Leoni Page.
In 1991 Ross established his own company PUPPETEASE puppet productions.
1991 – 2000 Puppetease Toured regularly with the Queensland Arts Council, The
Victorian Arts Council , Northern Territory Arts performing in remote indigenous communities across Arnhem Land, Melville Island & Bathurst Island. 1994 - The Australian Museum commissioned Ross to create Funky Fins with Garth Frost 1995 - The Earth Exchange Museum Commissioned DIG… a live wire rock show! 1995 – Ross performs Puppetease to 65 schools in New Zealand 1999 - 2002 Ross invited as Guest presenter at The Australian Science Festival Canberra 2000 - Guest Presenter at the Dunedin International Science Festival, New Zealand 2002 - Guest Presenter at the National Museum of Australia conference "Raising the Curtain"
Ross has created three unique shows linked to school curriculum and designed to help students learn while they laugh. Now in it‘s twelth successful year PUPPETEASE shows have been seen by almost a million primary school students at thousands of Primary Schools across Australia & New Zealand.