Artists

  • Heidi Weatherald is a multi-disciplinary artist and co-founder of Pocketfool, a company creating contemporary theatre and interactive spaces for the very young and their families.  Formed in 2003, Pocketfool’s work is an exciting, funny, and richly poetic celebration of children’s relationships, concerns and passions. Heidi is also a respected teaching artist nationally and internationally.

  • Jennifer Andersen is a theatre maker, arts researcher and early childhood teacher. A founding member of theatre companies, ONE TOE and Pocketfool, she has created numerous works for children and young people. She has extensive experience facilitating music and dance workshops for babies and their adults. Jennifer’s academic research focuses on artists working with children in education and community settings.

  • Kym Tonkin is an actor and special education teacher. As a performance ensemble member with Mainstreet Theatre, Salamanca Theatre, Polyglot and ONE TOE, he devised and performed numerous shows for children and community groups. He is a founding member of the theatre collective, Not Done Yet. He has worked in special schools as a performing arts specialist and teacher of young people with autism. He recently performed in the Ponycam productions ‘All of This Could Be Yours’ and ‘Feast’.

  • Loukia Vassiliades is a performer and teaching artist dedicated to creating theatre-based opportunities for children. Shaking Egg Hunt (2013-15) & Happy Sticks (2015) were presented at ArtPlay and devised for babies. During the pandemic Loukia created Concoct with your Imagination, a sold-out online workshop in partnership with La Mama kids. This was shortly followed with Cooee, her debut theatre piece and contribution for families as part of Banksia and Mother Tongue Festivals. Fast forward to now, while new projects gestate Loukia continues to relish making theatre with her home-schooling families.

  • Rasheeda Cooper is an early childhood music educator, dancer and musician. She has facilitated early childhood music and movement classes for babies and their carers, for 16 years in Melbourne, as a qualified Suzuki Early Childhood teacher. She practices improvised creative dance at Mangala Studios. She is an accomplished pianist and percussionist on the Indian tabla, African djembe and the Middle Eastern darabuka, having performed at many community events around Melbourne and regional Victoria, for multicultural audiences. She has taught children from preschool up as a qualified Suzuki piano teacher for over three decades.

  • Geoffrey Ricardo is known for his Figurative work that centres around a narrative language. He woks primarily in sculpture, printmaking, etching, lithography and painting. Geoffrey was the winner of the 20009 Lorne Sculpture Exhibition. His work is represented in select major private and corporate collections as as public and university museum collections in all states of Australia including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW, Queensland Art Gallery, State Library Victoria and the Art Gallery of South Australia.

  • Andrea Reichert is a versatile artist born in Germany. As an actor, she has appeared in several productions, including PonyCam’s ‘Feast’ (Substation) at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2024 and ‘Ripe for Action’ (Butterfly Club among others) with Not Done Yet in 2025. She has also performed in masquerades and Butoh productions. Andrea is a trained classical singer but since moving to Australia her artistic spectrum has expanded. She has written and produced a radio play and several animated short films, ironically sung in a Vegemite commercial, and was a member in an opera company and a diversity of choirs. Andrea exhibits as a visual artist and she also loves loval and movement improvisation.