Kristin WINTERS- CREATOR/PERFORMER
Kristin is a Croatian-American theatre maker and actor raised and based in London. Kristin has performed Off-Broadway and Off-West End, and is a voice actor.
Her original piece, Ghislaine/Gabler, won Best International Show at United Solo Theatre Festival in November 2021, and received glowing reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe this past summer.
Kristin co-founded krēan(t)s with RADA classmates Jack Parris and Lane Paul Stewart, whose work The Cinnamon Shop has been produced for The Coronet Theatre’s Outside In Festival and at the Bloomsbury Festival. She is an Associate Artist with Invulnerable Nothings. She most recently appeared in Lovefool at the Théâtre National du Luxembourg, and will be reprising the role in April of this year in Luxembourg, and May in London.
Kristin received a BFA honours in acting from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and completed her MA in Theatre Laboratory at RADA in January 2021. completed her MA in Theatre Laboratory at RADA in January 2021.
Dr Katherine Hipkiss - Dramaturg
Kat is a dramaturg, actor, researcher, lecturer, and director. The main focus of her work is corporeal feminist understandings of the body in performance, and she completed her PhD entitled ‘“My body shall pay recompense”: The Embodiment of Margaret in Selected Staged and Televised Cycles of the First Tetralogy’ in 2021. She is currently a Teaching Fellow at Bath Spa University and a Teacher at the University of Bristol and an Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University.
Florence Hand - Sound Design
Florence is delighted to have the opportunity to work on this exciting new production. She has always had a passion for everything surrounding music, including composition and performance, as well as design. Professionally she has worked across London’s West End as a mixer and radio mic engineer, most recently working on the current season at the Royal Court Theatre. Her previous credits whilst studying at RADA include Composer and Sound Designer for Shakespeare’s As You Like It, and Sound Designer for David Glass’ Margot Monroe’s Nibelungenlied and David Ireland’s Cyprus Avenue.
SARAH KENT - PERFORMER
Sarah Kent’s background is in the visual arts but, in 1990, she began a decade of intensive training that included contemporary dance, voice and Action Theatre (a form of free improvisation).
She began performing in 2011 and has been at it ever since. Donald Hutera, dance critic of The Times, invited her to appear in the first GOlive Dance and Performance Festival in 2013 and included her in all subsequent GOlive Festivals. He described her as a “whip-smart mature woman; her scintillating brand of revelling-in-the-moment performance is an inspiring reminder to not hold back in your own life”.
Her broad training has enabled her to work with choreographers, artists and composers as well as performing improvised solos. She has appeared in venues ranging from a battleship to Tate Britain, a cemetery to Swindon Dance and the Coliseum to a working men’s club and taken part in Festivals such as Dance Umbrella, Spontaneous Combustion and Buzzcut.
She was delighted to be nominated for a Critics’ Circle Emerging Artist Award in Dance in 2014.
Gabrielle Moleta - Movement Director
Gabrielle is a movement artist, acting coach and director of Company Gabrielle Moleta. Among recent projects are Blood Rites (BBC short, director Helena Coan), Shakespeare within the Abbey (Globe theatre, Claire van Kampen and Mark Rylance), The Ephemeral Life of an Octopus and Starving Dingoes (Lea Tirabasso), and Hawk, (Company Gabrielle Moleta). She gives guest movement workshops nationally including RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe, internationally- Greece, Australia, USA, Austria and has ongoing artistic collaborations with Fay Simpson – Lucid Body (NY) and KaDISS, Kalamata, Greece. She is tutor at RADA (MA Theatre Lab). In 2005, Gabrielle was chosen by Catherine Clouzot to become her apprentice in the body of work known as Transformation and Imaginative Improvisation. As UK’s sole inheritor of Catherine’s unique process, Gabrielle continues its direct lineage passed on from teacher to assistant through Clouzot and John Blatchley, to Michel Saint Denis and Jacques Copeau
Alex Forey - Lighting Design
Alex’s work as lighting designer includes: Polyeucte (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Libuše, Rhapsody, From Here To Eternity (Bloomsbury Theatre), Babel (Lyric Hammersmith), over ten shows for Wimbledon College of Arts including Killology, Network, and Three Sisters; Ghislaine/ Gabler (Coronet Theatre & Edinburgh Fringe), Into The Woods, Exhibition (Shaw Theatre), Message in a Clay River, Daisy Pulls It Off, A Sexual Odyssey, Written on the Body (Cockpit Theatre), Paddy Goes To Petra (Brockley Jack), Songs for a New World (Drayton Arms), The Piper of Hamelin (Rose Kingston), Grey Matter, Twelfth Night (Edinburgh Fringe).
As associate lighting designer: Quintessential (Peacock Theatre, Sadler’s Wells), Legally Blonde, The Drowsy Chaperone, RENT (Pleasance), Modern Love (Etcetera Theatre). As assistant/ relighter: Growl (Curve Leicester, and tour), as assistant: Parade, Legend Trippers, Anything Goes (The Other Palace).
He is a graduate from RADA where he specialised in Lighting Design. Previously he studied at University College London before switching to drama full-time. He was awarded the Vectorworks Design Entertainment Scholarship in 2021, and two UCL Design Awards.
In between designs, Alex has worked as a technician for Ammonite (Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Back To The Future The Musical, The Mirror and the Light), and at Wyndham’s Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Donmar Warehouse, the Lyric Hammersmith, and elsewhere.
Miriam Elwell-Sutton - PERFORMER
Miriam was born in Glasgow where she studied Musical Theatre, first at the Dance School of Scotland, and then at Arts Educational Schools in London. She then went straight into Hair at The Gate Theatre, Notting Hill. She went on to play the roles of Ali in Mamma Mia! (West End); alternate Tzeitel and understudy to Chava and Hodel in Fiddler on The Roof (West End); Hunyak and Roxie in Chicago (UK tour & Singapore); Bettina in the new musical Dolly; Colin in Mother Goose (Nottingham Playhouse); An Evening of Shakespeare Monologues (with the theatre company Action to the Word); The Magical Mermaid in Robinson Crusoe & the Caribbean Pirates (SECC); We Will Rock You (West End) where she understudied the leading role of Scaramouche; Tiger Lily in Peter Pan and Princess Jasmine in Aladdin at the Edinburgh King's Theatre; Lead in I Love You in Danish (Oran Mor), Eva in The Stornoway Way, An Lantair and Susan in Talking Heads.
Television includes: X-Factor with the cast of Mamma Mia, Dream Girl in Dream Bingo Commercial, Mother in Scottish Government commercial, Lois in, UP! (BBC3), Morag in Quick Cuts (Channel 4)
Miriam has recently graduated from studying a Masters degree at RADA. Upon graduating she started collaborating on ongoing project 4:48 DIGESTION and has been filming a guest lead role in a new Channel 5 Drama airing in Autumn 2023.
David Cieri - Composer/Musician
David Cieri is a New York City–based pianist and composer and led the band that created the original music for both Season 1 and Season 2 of The Paris Review Podcast. He has done scoring work on documentaries produced by Ken Burns, the Ewers Brothers, Ark Media, and others. He has recorded collaborative albums with the poet Yusef Komunyakaa, and his next album, An Homage to Carl Th. Dreyer’s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc, will be released in January 2020. He spoke to TPR’s digital director, Craig Morgan Teicher, about the freedom of repetition, the Haken Continuum fingerboard, and his family of bandmates.
Beth Cotton - Stage Manager