Ingrid Hansen

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About Ingrid Hansen

Raised by gregarious Danish immigrants, Ingrid is a television puppeteer, voice actor, theatre creator, and prison theatre leader. On TV, Ingrid performs and voices ‘Heart’, the big orange monster on Sesame Workshop’s new series Helpsters on AppleTV+. She also performs puppetry for Tiga Talk (APTN), Miss Persona (Treehouse TV) and Princess Sparkly Butt and The Hot Dog Kid (Teletoon). With background in dance, Ingrid also specializes in comedic dance choreography, and choreography for non-dancers, and has choreographed several stage productions and music videos for 'Helpsters' and 'Miss Persona.' In 2006 she co-founded SNAFU to create unexpected theatre, dance, and puppet theatre (@snafudance). With SNAFU, Ingrid has co-created award-winning five-star shows Little Orange Man, Kitt & Jane, Interstellar Elder, Table Top Tales, Snack Music and The Merkin Sisters, presented by the National Arts Centre and theatres and festivals across North America. For the past decade, Ingrid has built an ongoing collaboration with the prisoners at William Head on Stage, the only prison theatre company in Canada that 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. Ingrid also teaches workshops in puppetry, physical theatre, viewpoints, and character creation. She has taught at Humber College, the Canadian College of Performing Arts, The Magnetic North Theatre Festival, the Toronto School of Puppetry, the Victoria Youth Justice Centre, Grand Valley Institution for Women, and has been artist-in-residence at several elementary schools across Canada. Hansen earned her BFA in Theatre at the University of Victoria, and studied with clown master Sue Morrison, the SITI Company in New York, and the Old Trouts at the Banff National Arts Centre Puppet Intensive.