Meet our team

Aleshia Johnson is Executive Director of Warehouse Circus (2010 - present), and now the CEO of Hand to Hand Academy. Aleshia guided Warehouse Circus' growth from 140 weekly participants to +600 across two venues, offering a full complement of circus classes and opportunities for Canberrans managing complex disabilities; classes for young people facing comparative disadvantage and structural barriers to participation; several festivals; an agency, and retail circus equipment shop.

Goldele Rayment is an actor, director, dramaturge, writer and teaching artist. She holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts from Monash University.

Nicole is passionate about safety and safe approaches to risk. She has a long career in ropes, climbing, and rescue. Nicole contributed enormous work to help ensure Hand to Hand Academy has robust safety systems for its training.

Idris Stanbury is an award-winning, internationally touring circus artist, clown, actor, and comedian. He studied at Circoarts, the National Institute of Circus Arts, and acting courses before forming the Circus Firemen, some of Australia's most popular circus performers.

Morgan is  adept at at digital creation, making and editing videos, poster design, and is also a talented musician and actor, recording with her band Hexe.

Morgan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Film Production and a Certificate IV in Acting.

She also has experience working in professional TV and film, working as an extras casting coordinator for season 1 and 2 of ABC’s Austin, as well as the Canberra shoot for the 2021 Hollywood blockbuster film Blacklight.

Ben has been at Warehouse Circus since 2017, when they took up the role of Finance Manager. In 2020, their role expanded to Business Manager. They are very passionate about, acting, musical theatre, circus, and the performing arts, and the impact that the arts have on people’s lives.

Annabel has been in circus since she was 12 years old. 

Starting in the Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Annabel graduated from the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) in 2004. She founded The Little Circus of Elsewhere; She has performed with CiRCA, Swamp Circus, The Insect Circus, and No Fit State Circus. She specialises in hula hoops, swinging cloudswing, and aerial ring.

Daniel Kirkby completed a Bachelor of Musical Theatre at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. Daniel started actor training with a Certificate course in Music Theatre at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts before moving to Brisbane to further his training. He is a working actor, and a great acting coach!

Tom grew up at Warehouse Circus before moving to Melbourne to attend the National Institute of Circus Arts, graduating 2010. Since then he has created award-winning circus shows, toured with Circus Oz across Australia and North America, toured the country with Solid State Circus, Highwire events, and more.

Tom became Artistic Director of Warehouse Circus in 2020, spearheading the design and delivery of the first Canberra Circus Festival.

Ché Baker has written, produced and 

directed two feature films - BLUE WORLD ORDER (Billy Zane, 

Jack Thompson) and the upcoming STATES OF MIND (2026). 

He worked on films: ‘The Hobbit Trilogy,’ ‘Tintin’ and, ‘Interceptor.’ (Chris Hemsworth, Elsa Pataky).

With passion for compelling stories and a PhD in film innovation, Ché is a hands-on producer bringing engaging adventures to life. 

Ché has trained acting, stunt work and martial arts. 

As author Scott Baker, Ché has written best selling novels: ‘The Rule of Knowledge’ for Hachette, ‘BWO’, 

and the upcoming ʻUncommon Enemyʼ and ʻThe Rule of Power.ʼ

Mark Theodossiou is a Brisbane based actor, acting coach, and voice-over with over 25 years of experience across feature film, stage, and audio. 

As the founder of Self-Tape Studio Brisbane, Mark bridges the gap between the rehearsal room and the screen, combining a deep mastery of acting using transferable skills, practice, technique & theory with industry standard equipment & applications.

Ruth is an established and theatre-trained actor, screen

actor, and Drama Teacher. 

Ruth performed, taught, directed, written and produced work as an actor, improv

artist, puppeteer, and tutor with 30+ years in the industry. 

Ruth is also a filmmaker, of award winning shorts, and runs her own business - https://www.act4reel.au/ making Showreels for actors.