CDP Theatre Producers, Spot

CDP Kids & Salspot Ltd presents

SPOT

based on the books by Eric Hill

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.

Presented by arrangement with Salspot Limited, part of Penguin Random House. Copyright © Salspot Ltd 2019. Original artwork © The Eric and Gillian Hill Family Trust 2013-2019. FUN WITH SPOT™️ Salspot Ltd. All rights reserved.

Age Recommendation: Children 18 months to 7 and their adults
Duration: Approximately 50 mins, no interval

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 Ratburger, Magic Beach and The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show 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), Sheila the Emu - The Tale of the Great Emu War (Fingerless Theatre), 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.

ALLY MORGAN - Helen

Ally Morgan (she/her) is an award-winning writer, actor and musical comedian. Dubbed "a younger Tim Minchin" by the Sydney Morning Herald, Ally writes and performs for both stage and screen, incorporating her multidisciplinary skills into her screen-making practice. In 2021, Ally produced and acted in Her Own Music, which was nominated for the Dendy Awards at the Sydney Film Festival and won the Audience Choice Award at the Mardi Gras Film Festival. Ally also won 'Best Performance' at Mardi Gras Film Festival for her leading role in the film.

Ally also wrote and produced the short film How To Be Queer alongside Clare Cavanagh, which won the 2020 Melbourne Queer Film Festival's Pitch Pleez! Competition. The short went on to open the MQFF 2021 Festival and also screened at Outfest LA. Ally's original musical rom-com TikTok series Girl Crush was selected for the 'Every Voice' Initiative funded by Screen Australia and TikTok Australia. Ally wrote, produced and acted in the series. Girl Crush has so far garnered over 600,000 views on TikTok.

As a comedian, Ally has created multiple one-woman shows. Her show Not Today won 'Best Musical & Cabaret' at the Sydney Fringe Festival 2022 and was nominated for 'Best Writing of a Cabaret' at the 2023 Green Room Awards. In 2024, Ally graduated with a Masters in Screenwriting from AFTRS.

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.