MCing
If you need someone to keep the event flowing, engage an audience, introduce acts, let the punters know what is going, bring some laughs and work with a flexible run sheet than Alyce Fisher from Theatre On Toast is your MC.
Alyce has extensive experience having MC’d such events as HotHouse Galah Bars, North East Food & Wine Festival, Co-Creates Wodonga, Riverside Vibes & Summer Nights events for AlburyCity, Upsteam Albury-Wodonga and The Cube Sessions Wodonga.
Thank you so much for your vibrancy, wit and all round stellar performance in hosting graduation!
AVCLP – Graduation
Image credit - Host Galah Bar 2019 - Ian Sutherland
Roving Entertainment
Theatre On Toast has years of experience developing engaging Roving Characters for various events including North East Food & Wine Festival (2023).
We developed the characters of Two Head Chefs, who comedically engaged with the crowds, giving them unsolicited cooking tips and sprinkling much seasoning from a height and for The AlburyCity Summer Nights Movie Screening (2023) of ‘Charlie & The Chocolate Factory’ the character of ‘Eva-Lasting-Gobstopper’ added much chaos and intrigue to the event. We can come up with dynamic and roving entertainment offerings, depending on what the themes and or atmosphere of the event is. Any roving characters developed will offer sought after selfie opportunities, comedic interaction, and participation moments.
Thank you for being part of the event. We already have great ideas for next year.
Karen Walls-Smythe, Cultural Projects Coordinator City of Wodonga
Image credit - Roving Head Chefs NEF&W Festival 2023
Event and Festival Entertainment
Live Long & Sparkle: An interactive dance party.
Live Long & Sparkle is a family friendly dance party for small humans and their grown-ups. Join in with our enthusiastic dance duo, as they guide your crew, through a set of bopping beats, which will have everyone up and dancing.
Albury based artists and Parenting Partner’s, Alyce Fisher & Seth Scheuner, lead the dance party, adorned in sparkly costumes and aid to create an inclusive space for free dance. Alyce & Seth are established performers, with many years of experience and Live Long & Sparkle is a true family affair with their child joining in as the dance party’s mascot.
Conceived as a way to create a fun, lively and safe space to bring families together for connection, play and joy, via the glorious mediums of music & dance. As parents and educators, Live Long & Sparkle creators Alyce & Seth, know that small humans will pretty much dance to anything and therefore the unique set lists developed, are filled with banging dance tracks, designed to encourage adults to let go, be in the moment and dance freely with their small humans.
Live Long & Sparkle Rulz
Dancing is not optional
Live in the moment
Long live the dance floor
Sparkle like a diamond
Grown-ups must dance with their small humans
Live Long & Sparkle is an excellent addition to existing festivals and events, which have a focus on an inclusive family friendly audience, offering a dance party for all ages and especially fantastic for the young family demographic. The dance party is designed in such a way that means that participants can dip in and out or go all in and dominate the dance-floor during a half hour (ish) set.
Live Long & Sparkle has featured at Upstream Albury-Wodonga (2021), Spring Jam Wagga Wagga (2022), Summer Nights Albury (2023), The High Country Hop Beechworth (2023), Adelaide Fringe festival (2023 & 2024) and Shepparton Festival (2024).
Image credit - Live Long & Sparkle Spring Jam 2022 - Visit Wagga Wagga
Workshops
Drama Workshops
An experienced teaching artist, Alyce has developed and delivered drama-based workshops and programs for the Flying Fruit Fly Circus, AlburyCity, Wodonga Council, Deniliquin North Public School, Aspire Riverina Drama Camps and Windsor Mountain Summer Camp New Hampshire USA. Alyce aims to create fun and engaging workshops which can be flexible to meet the needs of the participants.
Pride Rainbow Sneakers
Is a new offering for Theatre On Toast and is aimed for anyone who enjoys a rainbow, wearing colourful statement pieces, up-cycling clothes & accessories, craft, design, making and coming together for a fun, safe, supportive, collective activity. Lead facilitator Alyce Fisher will guide participants to create their own Pride Rainbow Sneakers and encourage participants with their own creative expression. All participants will stride out in their very own, individual, pair of Pride Rainbow Sneakers. We aim to bring connection, conversation & creativity via these workshops. These workshops are aimed for young people (14+), those in the LGBTQIA+ community, allies, grown-ups and or those who really enjoy colourful accessories.
Image credit - Theatre On Toast Drama Workshop - Retro Youth Autumn School Holidays 2024.
Creative Project Management
Alyce straddles the corporate and creative realms, as the former Executive Director of Murray Arts (2017 – 2023) and South West Arts (2009 – 2013). She has years of experience in developing strategic partnerships, delivering dynamic programs and is passionate about Regional Arts Development.
Alyce was the Artistic Director of LIMELIGHT: Art - Science – Light, an outdoor light, sound and projection event which delivered events in 2018, 2022 and 2024. She has extensive experience managing and accessing funding programs, such as Country Arts Support Program (CASP) in partnership with Create NSW and formally RANSW, UNLOCKED micro grant program for Murray Arts and assessing for RANSW, RAV, AlburyCity, Indigio Shire Council, HotHouse Theatre and Creative Victoria. Alyce is also an experienced grant writer having successfully secured funding from Create NSW, HotHouse Theatre Celsius and AlburyCity as an independent artist, as well as having a very high success rate when writing grants on behalf of organisations & individuals she has been engaged by. Thanks to Alyce’s extensive industry knowledge and contacts she is well equipped to tackle the complexities and challenges that creative projects inevitably involve.
Image credit - LIMELIGHT Corowa 2024 - Sue Davis