Sharon Gruenert
Sharon Gruenert began her circus journey by joining Cirque Du Soleil’s Saltimbanco. For the past 28 years, Sharon has flown around and been thrown around with companies such as Circus Oz, Cirque du Soleil, Circus Monoxide, Dislocate, Strange Fruit and A Good Catch. 

Sez Berrell
Sez has toured professionally throughout Australia with ensemble companies including One Fell Swoop, Long Answers for Simple Questions and performed in multiple cabaret line ups throughout the Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth Fringe. Sez regularly performs acrobatics for Melbourne based agency NICA Represents and appeared as an aerialist for Opera Australia’s production-Die MiesterSinger.  

Leo Pentland
Leo is an artist that is drawn to a challenge and new ways to push his acrobatic and artistic skills. Performing with names such as Circus Oz, Blunderland Variety and Reuban Kaye, Leo is drawn to pushing the form of circus into a new territory. Whilst also working in production, using the technologies and capabilities of modern-day theatre to excel circus arts into a new world is where this industry excites Leo the most. 

Melissa Tan
Mel Tan’s creative journey began with physical theatre in Darwin, Northern Territory, and after falling in love with movement, went on to study contemporary dance at WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts). This allowed Tan’s curiosity for motion, flow and all things creative to span an ever-widening spectrum.
Mel is one of the TNA Rigging Scholarship Recipients.