FIREHOUSE - Key Persons
Born in Romania, Cristina graduated from East 15 Acting School, London and is currently studying for an MA in Creative Media Arts at South Bank University. Her acting credits include: Home (Tangled Feet), ‘This Other City' (Tinderbox, Belfast), ‘Mushroom' (Storytellers, Dublin), ‘The Thought That Counts' (theatre-rites, The Barbican/Sadler's Wells), ‘Underground' (dreamthinkspeak/Theatre Royal Brighton), The Secret Garden' (Tobacco Factory, Bristol), ‘The Diary of Anne Frank' (The Courtyard, Hereford) and for TV and film, ‘Holby City', ‘Primeval', ‘The Bill', ‘Doctors', ‘Murder Prevention', ‘Eastern Promises' and ‘Almost Adult'. She is often involved in play readings (Soho Theatre), workshops (Arcola, Nabokov)) and devising new work (most recently she helped develop ‘Home' with Tangled Feet). Cristina translates plays from Romanian into English, ‘End of the Line' for Cork Midsummer Festival (2008), and for The Royal Court International Residency (2007-present).
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- Station Technology Designer and Website Developer
Peter graduated from the Oxford School of Drama in 2004. Since graduating he has worked at many theatres and for many theatre companies throughout the UK including; Theatre Royal Bath, Young Vic, Arcola, Clod Ensemble, BAC, Lord Chamberlain's Men, Rough Fiction, Tangram, Theatre 503 and the Hampstead Theatre. Peter has been short-listed for this year's James Menzies-Kitchin Young Director Award, celebrating outstanding young theatre directors.
Rachel Parish is artistic director of Firehouse Creative Productions. She works regularly as a freelance theatre director and performance maker whose work focuses on performance and the everyday. She has conducted performance-based oral history projects in the UK, the USA and in West Africa with support from organisations including UNESCO and the AHRC. Directing credits include StoryStation (BAC and Tristan Bates); Grimethorpe Race (Arcola Grimebourne Festival); The Silents (the Albany, Deptford and The Hive, Brighton); Salsa Saved the Girls, (Old Red Lion) No Going Back (Tabard Theatre) Love and Money (Young Vic Shorts); Lunch, The Long Engagement (Kings Head Theatre); Old O'Malley (Southwark Playhouse); The Journey, a devised interactive performance piece (Southwark Playhouse and CETT)