Melissa Pullinger is an Australian/English actor, deviser, puppeteer & co-founder of The CRAM Collective, having graduated with Honors at Flinders University’s Drama Centre.

Growing up in England, Pullinger appeared in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of The Sound of Music at the London Palladium, where she played Brigitta Von Trapp. Upon emigrating to Adelaide, Pullinger performed in Border Project’s Disappearance and then Windmill Theatre and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Granpa.

With a particular interest in devising and physical theatre, Pullinger trained at Frantic Assembly’s International Summer School. She has been part of Book Week tours across schools with Perform! Education, produced and starred in various shows with The CRAM Collective and worked with Illuminate Adelaide through collaborations with Slingsby and Blanck Canvas. 

Across 2023 and 2024, Pullinger joined the North America and Canada tour of Bluey’s Big Play puppeteering both Bluey and Bingo. She has also toured with the UK and Northern Ireland Bluey tour and in 2025, toured New Zealand, puppeteering Bluey. 

Pullinger's original, one-woman auto-biographical show, Meteors, premiered at the 2026 Adelaide Fringe, winning four awards across the season for Emerging Artist, the Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award, Holden Street Theatre Award, and the prestigious Create SA Edinburgh Fringe Award. Meteors will be presented at Summerhall for the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe.