“hi I’m Opal. I grew up in Jersey, I’m intersex, never went to uni, and I never received any formal education around puppetry, performance or theatre really of any kind. My high school closed the drama department when I was 13. I was homeless for a brief stint then I moved to Australia and since then have been making big horrible exciting puppets. Growing up on a tiny, extremely conservative island in the 2000s made me buck against normality and the “cult of conformity”. but I was never very academic and don’t really know how to say that more eloquently.”