Creative Team
Creator and Performer - Kristin Winters
Kristin is a critically acclaimed and award-winning 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. On her return from New York to the UK in 2019, she began her theatre company, Bound By Theatre, and took a sell-out show SMOKE to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Kristin’s work deals with some of the challenging topics we may find uncomfortable and which we often avoid (want to change this sentence). Her original piece, Ghislaine/Gabler, won Best International Show at United Solo Theatre Festival in November 2021, and is set to appear for a full run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this 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. Kristin moved to New York to pursue her undergraduate acting training at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where she focused on Shakespeare and classical texts at The Classical Studio, and screen acting at Stonestreet Studios. Kristin completed her MA in Theatre Laboratory at RADA in January 2021. Kristin has worked and studied with practitioners and makers such as Kristine Landon Smith, David Glass, Tea Alagic, Clod Ensemble and Gecko.
Producer - Sam Dash
Sam is an Actor/Writer/Producer originally from New York City, now living in London. As a writer and producer, his first short film, SWIMMING, recently premiered at the Oscar qualifying Out on Film Festival in Atlanta, and has since screened at Oslo Fusion in Oslo, HollyShorts in LA, Block Island Film and is soon to be available for streaming. As a producer, Sam currently has a feature film in development with Shaunette Renée Wilson (The Resident, Indiana Jones) and Day 19 Productions. As a writer he is currently developing two TV shows and one feature film. Acting work includes appearances in Quantico (ABC), The Finest (ABC), various short films as well as new plays by Susan-Lori Parks (The Public Theater), Korde A. Tuttle (New York Theatre Workshop), Daniel K. Isaac (Ma-Yi Theater) and Adam Bock (NYU Grad Acting). Sam holds a BFA and MFA from NYU, Tisch.
Composer - Alexey Kochetkov
Alexey Kochetkov is a violinist, composer and music producer of wide stylistic versatility. Born into Russian-Jewish family he studied violin in Smolenks Musik College, composition in Jerusalem Music academy and now is living and working in Berlin, Germany.
Two of his leading projects are: 5 String Theory in which he embraces violin and computer symbiosis, and Ajam Quartet - a transcultural acoustic ensemble which challenges the ostensible border between Middle Eastern and European classical music and questions the norms of Eurocentric aesthetics.
Kochetkov has composed music for several films and theater pieces of the renown director Amos Gitai, performed with the acclaimed Australian circus group Gravity & Other Myths and worked as a music producer of the popular Kurdish singer Hani Mojtahedy.
Within his work on Kristin Winters's performance Ghislaine|Gabler Kochetkov created idiosyncratic musical world made of haunting microtonal piano sounds, reckless 90s rave knock-off and a disturbing version of Gershwin's Summertime lullaby.
www.alexeyviolin.com
Lighting Design - Alex Forey
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; Into The Woods, Exhibition (Shaw Theatre), Daisy Pulls It Off, Written on the Body (Cockpit Theatre), 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.
Sound Design - George Rigby