Samuel Kreusler

Composer | Sound Designer | Guitarist

Samuel Kreusler

Composer | Sound Designer | Guitarist

This is circus which aspires to the condition of music, and what makes it thrilling is a broadening of the form– the way it incorporates a stylish, synchronised physicality, owing as much to the rhythmic language of percussion as it does to dance.
– THE AGE

ABOUT

Samuel Kreusler is a Naarm/Melbourne-based composer, guitarist, and international performer whose work spans theatre, film, and live performance.

He has performed across Italy, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Zhangjiajie, and has performed at venues including the Melbourne Recital Centre, Arts Centre Melbourne. 

 

A graduate of the University of Melbourne, Samuel has developed his craft through residencies at ACMI X, the Flying Fruit-Fly Circus, the Pacific Alliance of Music Schools Summit in Singapore, and the Sō Percussion Summer Institute at Princeton University. His commissions include a work for the re-launch of the University of Melbourne’s Southbank campus, presented in Florence, and Arts Centre Melbourne’s SIGNAL sound walk.

 

Samuel co-created Escalate, a live juggling and solo electronica performance that premiered at Arts Centre Melbourne in 2022, winning the Best Circus Award at Melbourne Fringe and touring to the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2026, he was composer and sound designer for Monsteen, presented as part of RISING Festival and produced by AMC and SIGNAL. He has contributed to numerous theatre and film projects, including Objects of My DisaffectionThe Trauma ProjectFrom All Who Came Before, Curveball, and the Rawcus production Every Step.

 

Samuel is a Green Room Award Winner for Outstanding Sound Design on One Night Only by Rawcus.

In addition to his creative work, Samuel is a casual lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and has held technical and production roles for projects including While You Sleep. His practice reflects a commitment to collaboration, and cross-disciplinary performance

CONTACT

samuelzkreusler@gmail.com