Exerpts from Hildegard at VAULT Festival 2023 | Performers: Sarah Kent, Miriam Elwell Sutton, Kristin Winters | Musician: David Cieri | Filmed by Adam Lenson

  • Kristin is a Croatian-American theatre maker and actor raised and based in London, and founder of Bound By Theatre. 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

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  • David is a musician and composer, makes music for film, concert, and album release. Cieri has worked with numerous celebrated filmmakers including Ken Burns, the Ewers Brothers, and Barak Goodman. He has recorded nineteen acclaimed albums under his own name, that last ten of which were released by Ropeadope Records. He has collaborated on a major live documentary project with the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and has made two records with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. David wrote and performed the live scores for the first three seasons of The Paris Review podcasts. He teaches courses on Film Scoring and Music for Film at The City College of New York.m description

  • 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.

  • 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. scription

  • Anita Pomario is an Italian actress who got her BA in Acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, New York. She went on to work in several productions with Vittorio Bonaccorso, and performed in Caffè, Tè o Taxi, by Susie Dee at the Biennale Teatro Venice in 2018. She garnered a lot of attention with her role in Le Sorelle Macaluso by Emma Dante (Official Competition, 77th Venice International Film Festival); Winner of Premio Pasinetti (Journalists’ prize) for Best Female performance to the whole cast. Having graduated from the MA Theatre Lab at RADA, she now continues working on both Grotowski as Suzuki techniques while simultaneously teaching the next generation of artists.

 
 

Press

‘The performance leaves a powerful image… all women can relate to her, and the audience feels her emotions alongside the three actors… Lighting and sound is expertly mastered by Alex Forey and Florence Hand throughout the performance, in a way that gives light a voice, and gives sound a visual experience.’ The Reviews Hub

‘stunning and slick … a strikingly beautiful, highly sensory piece… rather magical, and a fitting homage to a woman of such achievement.’ The Play’s The Thing

it is difficult not to get swept up in this show, which is sometimes exquisitely moving.’ Lou Reviews

‘Kristin Winters’ Hildegard Von Bingen is pleasingly unconcerned with notions of conventional biography’ - Ought to be Clowns

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