Snarling Beasties

The Snarling Beasties was an Australian theatre company that performed in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Snarling Beasties was formed in 1986 by Debbie Isitt and Mark Kilmurry. Isitt was the writer and director. Kilmurry played the lead parts in her first plays; Gangsters (1988), Punch & Judy, (1989), Femme Fatal (1990) and The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband (1992). Snarling Beasties mixed a cinematic style with total theatre and created physical, dynamic and naturalistic plays. The company won the Time Out theatre award, the Perrier Pick of the Fringe award three times and the Independent Theatre Award.

Snarling Beasties disbanded in 1996.