PEEPed

PEEPed is a clown/puppet soap opera that follows the melodramatic and saccharine lives of Peeps. Do not be fooled by their candy coated exterior... or their squishy marshmallow interior! These Peeps are ruthless. Love. Betrayal. And all the sweet soap opera tropes you know and love will be revealed.

Created and Performed by Zita Nyarady with original music by Melissa Mather
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Zita Nyarady is an interdisciplinary artist working within the realms of dance, theatre and circus. She creates playful performances to delight audiences. Her eclectic training includes degrees and advanced study in dance, theatre, circus arts, performance studies, political science and environmental studies. In her work she melds physical vocabulary with theatrical character and narrative. Zita loves to tell whimsical stories with a sense of humour. As co-artistic director of The Grand Salto Theatre, Zita’s interdisciplinary performances have been presented at Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, Rhubarb, Toronto Festival of Clowns, Edmonton Play the Fool Festival, Montreal Clown Festival, Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival, 60x60, Clay & Paper Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto Buskerfest and Fringe Festivals across Canada. Internationally she has worked with the National Gallery in Jamaica, Dance House in Scotland, Odin Teatret in Denmark and Klintkalaset in Sweden. She was the co-artistic director of The Wapsipnicon Theatre Festival, a site-specific performance festival in rural Iowa USA. She has participated in Director's Lab North, Nightwood Theatre's Young Innovators Lab, Crows Theatre AXTP, Buddies in Bad Times Young Creators Unit, Circus Sessions and PERSPECTIVE with Connection Dance Works. She received a Theatre Ontario PTTP grant to fund an internship with Pilobolus Dance Theatre. Zita was the 2017/18 Dramatist in Residency at The Heliconian Club in Toronto, 2019 emerging choreographer with Chimera Project and is in the Cirque du Soleil performer database.