CDP Theatre Producers, Spot

CDP Kids & Salspot Ltd presents

SPOT

based on the books by Eric Hill

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Spot is one of the most loved dogs in the world, and he's coming to Australia!

Spot and his friends are off on a new adventure to visit Spot's Dad on the farm and meet the farm animals. But when they arrive, all the animals are lost! Can Spot and his friends find them all? They might need a little help from their new friends in the audience…

Eric Hill's beloved puppy comes to life on stage with puppetry, songs, and puzzles for the whole family.

Age Recommendation: Children 18 months + and their adults
Duration: Approximately 50 mins, no interval

Presented by arrangement with Salspot Limited, part of Penguin Random House. Copyright © The Eric and Gillian Hill Family Trust / Salspot Ltd 2025. FUN WITH SPOT is a trademark of Salspot Ltd. Used under license from Salspot Ltd. All rights reserved.

JADE FUDA - Spot

Jade Fuda is a Sydney based actor with a Bachelor of Performance from the Australian Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has performed in, directed and collaborated on a number of new plays, films and Theatre in Education related work. In 2018 Jade was accepted into the Stella Adler Art of Acting Studio in Los Angeles where she completed the Film and Television Acting intensive program.

Jade has had the privilege of touring nationally with CDP’s productions of Magic Beach, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Ratburger and Spot – Live on Stage, and internationally with The 13-Storey Treehouse (dir. Liesel Badorrek). Jade's recent theatre credits include: Celia/Phebe - As You Like It (Sport for Jove), Benvolio - Romeo and Juliet (Sport for Jove), Molly – The Female of the Species (Rogue Projects), Eve - Paradise Lost (Poetry in Action/Legs on the Wall), Hermia/Starveling - A Midsummer Night's Dream (Sport for Jove) and Stacey in the Australian premiere of Girl Band by Katy Warner (New Ghosts Theatre Company).

TINA JACKSON - Helen

Originally from Perth, Tina is a proud graduate of NIDA's Diploma of Music Theatre. She has worked as a performer and puppeteer across Australia, the UK, the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Qatar.

Tina’s credits in Australia include CDP’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018), Monkey Baa Theatre Company’s Edward the Emu (2022-23), Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo (2015), Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium (2017-18), Rebekah in Trevor Ashley’s Little Orphan TrAshley (2013, 2012), and Mouse in CDP/Tall Stories' The Gruffalo (2017).

In 2018-19, Tina toured the USA and Canada as a host and puppeteer of Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium Adventure and toured the show to New Zealand as part of the Auckland Arts Festival. She toured to Qatar in 2017 with Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo.

Tina studied puppetry as part of the Lemony S Puppet Lab in 2024 and 2025, and is a founding member of puppetry collective Puppet Rats.

RICK BUTLER - Daddy Sam

Rick is an AIM grad whose theatre credits include Pinwheel Productions’ The Long Dark and The Tale of Ichabod Scrubb, Little Triangle’s Work of Art, Merrily We Roll Along and Sunday in the Park with George, Squabbalogic’s Man of La Mancha, The Drowsy Chaperone and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Limelight on Oxford’s Company, Exclaim Theatre Company’s The Fantasticks and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, PlayScript’s Australia Felix, Birdie Productions’ Keating! The Musical, Secret House’s The Winter’s Tale, and Resolved Theatre Company’s The Great Divorce (which he also directed.) He also performs with a capella group The Spare Keys.