Ania Reynolds

Ania graduated with an Advanced Diploma of Music Performance at NMIT in 2003. She has worked as a freelance musician and composer with Polyglot Theatre and Westside Circus. Her credits with Polyglot are Stop That House! (2004), We Built This City (2004, 2006-07), Me And My Shadow (2006), Checkout! (2007), and The Big Game (2008). With Westside Circus Ania has worked as both a performer (Urban Heroes, Don’t Forget Your Overcoat, Poppies, Stellar) and a composer for Gravity (2005), Helium (National Youth Week 2007), Spilt Milk (RAV schools’ touring show 2007-08), A Watertight World (2007) and In My Footsteps (Melbourne Fringe Festival 2009).

As a composer, Ania has worked with Women’s Circus (A Plane Without Wings Is A Rocket, 2006); NICA (Cirque De La Vie 2008); Sweet N Sour Circus (Pirated, 2008); Asking For Trouble Physical Theatre (Bubblewrap And Boxes, 2009) and Melbourne Workers’ Theatre (Every Angel Is Terrible 2008-09). She has also composed soundtracks for The Grimstones – Hatched! (2008) and Mortimer Revealed (2010) by Asphyxia, and Randy’s Postcards From Purgatory by Heath McIvor (Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2009, Edinburgh Fringe 2009).

Ania has worked as Musical Director on other independent community theatre projects, including The Bonegilla Migrant Experience (2005): a collaboration between four artists and students from four schools, creating puppet shows depicting the life stories of four former residents of the Bonegilla Migrant Village; and the Hamilton Olympic Games Opening Ceremony (2009), a large-scale community theatre event supported by the Hamilton Primary Care Partnership.

As a musician, Ania has performed at various festivals and events around the country with bands including Croque Monsieur; Johnnie and the Johnnie Johnnies and Yana Alana and Tha Paranas.

Ania currently works for Circus Oz as a bandmember on keyboards, baritone saxophone and toy piano tricycle.