About Christina Fulcher  

Christina Fulcher is an inclusive Movement Director, Choreographer, Intimacy Coordinator and Educator working nationally and internationally. She holds an MFA in Movement Directing & Teaching from the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. Christina works across theatre, opera, and new writing. Christina is a teaching artist with Disney Theatrical and ISTA. Movement Director credits include: Don’t Talk to Strangers, Stages, When We Died (Vault Festival 2020); Into the Woods (RCSSD: MA Music Theatre); Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Academy Opera).

Associate/Assistant Movement Director credits include: Emilia (Vaudeville Theatre, West End); Beyond the Deepening Shadow (Historic Royal Palaces: Tower of London); Our House is Your Home (Royal Opera House, Open Up Festival); Wasted (Southwark Playhouse, Off West End); The Rake’s Progress (British Youth Opera).

Workshop 1: Movement through Monologues

Workshop Text: Millie’s Nan, a monologue by Michelle Payne

This workshop will feature a live Q&A with Michelle!

About Michelle Payne  

Michelle Payne is a director and playwright from Essex and the recent recipient of the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme. She trained in acting at Arts Ed & Performance Preparation Academy, and in playwriting with Philip Ayckbourn at the Queens Theatre Hornchurch. Her first play, Orchid, won two awards at its first outing at the Moors Theatre (Camden Fringe) in 2015 (Best New Writing & Best Actress: Michelle Payne).

Michelle is currently in the process of developing her play Squad Goals about female footballers in Essex for the Park Theatre Prism Project. Michelle won Best in Fringe for her play Full Circle about mental health at the Brewery Fringe Festival. She is also an acting tutor for West End Kids , and is the artistic director of Caspa Arts, an actor training company for under-represented voices.

    Workshop 2: Autobiographical Movement

Workshop Text: 3 Years, 1 Week & A Lemon Drizzle – a 1-act devised play by Alexandra & Kate Donnachie

Read about the show: Disability Arts Online | British Theatre

This workshop will feature a live Q&A with sister playwrights Alexandra & Kate!

About the playwrights, Alexandra & Kate

Alexandra Donnachie is an award-nominated actress-writer and has worked extensively in both capacities in venues across the UK including the Oldham Coliseum, the Royal & Derngate and Hampstead Theatre. She currently plays series regular Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Tate in the Dark Shadows audio drama series and has appeared in numerous audio dramas for Big Finish and Audible. In 2018, she played Sylvia Pankhurst in the BAFTA Award winning docudrama, Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley. Alexandra’s Bruntwood longlisted play WHEN WE DIED premiered at the 2020 VAULT Festival and she is currently developing her next full-length play with D.E.M. Productions.

Kate Donnachie has most recently played Bushkid in Pilot Theatre’s Crongton Knights. She has been a part of the BAC Beatbox Academy since 2014, training and performing at various venues from The Royal Festival Hall to Latitude Festival . She is an understudy in their 5 star show Frankenstein: How to make a monster. Graduating in 2018 from Italia Conti (BA Acting) as a Carlton Hobbs Bursary Award Runner-Up and Alan Bates Award finalist, Kate has appeared in various projects including; ‘3 Years, 1 Week & a Lemon Drizzle’ (Ad & Kd Theatre, Edinburgh Festival), Return to Elm House (Battersea Arts Centre), Home to Vote (Tiny Theatre Company, The King’s Head Theatre). She can be heard as ‘Grace’ in acclaimed BBC Radio 4 drama ‘China Towns’.