Mandy has worked with all arms and legs of the performing arts process: as a performer, in direction and in arts management, with a focus on physical theatre and outcomes in community and cultural development. She has trained in Body Weather, Dance Theatre, Clown, Mime and Puppetry, and has facilitated Community Projects for The Village, The Big West Festival, Yalikut Willam Ngargee, The Friendship Djerrip Festival and Woodford Folk Festival.

Between 2001 and 2004 Mandy travelled to Japan to study with Min Tanaka, and Yoshito and Kazuo Ohno, performed with Mbody UnLtd, Well Theatre, Tony Kishawi’s Transient Theatre Company and The Angry Mime. She was also co-creator of Children’s Theatre Duet ‘Puppet on a Harp String’ which was a well known feature of the Woodford Folk Festival 2001 – 2005. Between 2005 and 2007 Mandy created the Silent Landscape Series, facilitating projects that created partnerships between indigenous and non-indigenous people, exploring the idea of ‘Home’. After completing a Graduate Diploma in Animateuring at the VCA (Cross Modal Performance Making), Mandy studied with French Puppeteer Philippe Genty. She spent 2007 as the Creative Operations Manager for FEET Theatre, while researching her Masters in Community Animateuring.