Oasis in the Heart of Seminyak

Grahame and Lou designed and built Bali Ginger Villa.

Before moving to Bali we both worked as professional theatre artists in Australia for more than 20 years, Grahame as a Director/Writer and Lou as a Designer/Production Manager. Our theatre work toured extensively around Australia as well as internationally to countries including Indonesia, Singapore, Canada, USA, Japan, Korea, Russia and Mexico.

Inspired to create theatre that highlighted environmental issues, we travelled throughout Borneo and Sumatra researching about the plight of orang-utans in 1990, eventually developing Visiting The Relatives as a theatre production. Visiting The Relatives was rehearsed, written and designed in the steamy jungles of Northern Sumatra, “on location” at an orang-utan rehabilitation centre in 1992. This unique development process was challenging and innovative, and would eventually lead to projects about elephants (Ivory Circle, created in Thailand in 1993) and bears (Deliverance of Dancing Bears, written and designed in Turkey in 1995). Visiting The Relatives opened in Perth to sold out seasons and critical acclaim, and subsequently toured nationally and internationally over a 5 year period, making it one of Australia's most successful theatre productions.

In 1990 one of our tours took us via Bali and after that we just kept on coming back until it became an annual visit. During a couple of these visits Grahame began writing and Lou designing two of our most successful touring productions, ‘Frog Opera’ and ‘Silverfish’.

With 1 son grown up and married and the second still in primary school we took the opportunity to move to Bali and make it our home in 2007. We hope to bring that same creativity and flair to our life in Bali. Grahame thrives on the challenge of designing and building in Bali whilst Lou is passionate about creating memorable moments for visitors and takes care of much of the detail and finishing design.