Hot Heads
Hot Heads are a British duo who make physical and fast-paced performance.
We use our uncanny puppets to create visually stimulating and interactive theatre.
Hot Heads is founded on two principles:
Our work is visual & messy.
We use audience as collaborators.
Our Story
Keir Aitken and Lily Kuenzler, AKA Hot Heads, have performed work over three continents in tens of different festivals, galleries and theatres. This is our newly formed company that marries our experience in a whole new brand of performance.
We are both neurodiverse. We believe that our work flourishes because of this, not in spite of it. This uniqueness in our brains is responsible for the off the wall ideas that are the heart of our art. We both have extensive experience making work with other d/Disabled artists, and love the creativity and imagination that comes from making work in these spaces. It is an imperative part of our vision that we continue to make work with and for the d/Disabled community.
We are a touring company, bringing performances across Australia from our ‘Puppet Bus’. Our mobility allows us to share our work with all different kinds of communities, and Hot Heads have an active interest in reaching rural groups.
Core creative team
Lily Kuenzler
Co-artistic director
Lily Kuenzler is a neurodiverse theatre practitioner. Her award-winning company, Dead Cat Theatre Co, has performed their work across the UK. Lily believes that theatre must make use of the visual and visceral landscape of the stage. Her work in the past has used puppets, ‘meat-sculptures’, and movement. Her solo-performance has taken her to art galleries and theatres across the UK and America. She recently moved to Australia to pursue setting up Hot Heads, with long-term collaborator and friend, Keir Aitken. Working with Keir, a fellow neurodiverse practitioner, has always felt boundaryless. She cannot wait to see where the work takes them.
Keir Aitken
Co-artistic director
Keir Aitken is a neurodiverse theatre director, who's directed work across the UK, America and Australia. He was the founder and artistic director of Live Witness theatre in Scotland for 4 years before moving to Australia and continuing to tour his own work between the Melbourne and Adelaide fringes. He believes that the audience should always have some authorship over performances, because if it wasn't for them, there'd be no show at all.
