Cristina Catalina

I (she/her) am a Romanian-German producer, translator, performer, facilitator and occasional writer, and have made London my home for over two decades. I currently am Senior Producer at Dash Arts, where lead on producing the company’s programme of national and international, live and digital arts and community programmes.

The current role I am in has come after being a freelancer as producer, theatre-maker, deviser and creative associate for companies such as Tangled Feet and Firehouse Creative Productions, theatre consultant for the Romanian Cultural Institute, producer of public engagement programmes funded by academic grants such as Performing International Plays for Margherita Laera at the University of Kent, and as translator for The Royal Court's International Residency Programme for several consecutive years.

You can contact me at info@dasharts.org.uk.

Please note I am London-based, working nationwide and internationally - however my profile says Luton because of an unresolved technical error.

Credits

as PRODUCER for DASH ARTS:

Currently developing three major productions with national and international partners and communities including Our Public House, a new ‘state of the nation' production exploring England today inspired by speech-making workshops we’ve led across the country, and The Reckoning, a multilingual verbatim production based on survivors’ testimony of the war in Ukraine.

Lead producer on:

- The Forum, and The Memory Safe: a series of curated pop-up spaces featuring artistic, participatory, and community-led activation at The Great Get Together and Latitude Festival;
- The Great Middlemarch Mystery: immersive multi-site specific production (Coventry City of Culture) featuring a large cast of actors and community participants;
- Songs for Babyn Yar (JW3 - UK, Theatre on Podil - Ukraine, Munich Kammerspiele - Germany), international music-theatre production in partnership with Ukrainian Institute and Goethe-Institut;
- Dido’s Bar (Royal Docks, Manchester, Leicester, Portsmouth, Oxford): leading on the Community Engagement programme for this touring site-specific music and theatre play.

as CREATIVE ASSOCIATE at FIREHOUSE CREATIVE PRODUCTION:

- Museum of Our Forgotten Selves (2019) Arts Council-funded interactive installation exploring science and childhood. In partnership with Goldsmiths University, Birkbeck University and Anglia Ruskin University, presented at Theatre Absolute, and Cambridge Science Festival.
- All Change Festival at Theatre503 (2013) & Lyric Hammersmith (2014) – Co-founder, co-curator and Lead Producer of this grassroots festival, with the 2nd edition featuring 40+ artists and companies across several indoor and outdoor spaces for a wide audience.
- The Food Project (2012), participation project exploring local communities and food in Athens, USA, funded by Ideas for Creative Exploration at the University of Georgia
- Elevator, and The Romanian Season: New Diorama Theatre (2011). My MA Project. Press: **** and Critics’ Choice in Time Ot
- I Confess (2010) at Latitude Festival (co-production with Tangled Feet)

as FREELANCE PRODUCER:
- Project Administrator for UKRI-funded project Scenes for Middlemarch, Royal Holloway University of London;
- Producer for UKRI-funded website Performing International Plays with educational resources featuring over 15 newly commissioned films, for Dr Margherita Laera at the University of Kent. Nominated for a Music and Drama Education Award;
- Associate freelance producer with focus on Participation for Boots On The Ground (2018), by Tangled Feet, commissioned by Southwark Council, an outdoor experimental performance in Dulwich;
- Producer for Das Fest, by Philipp Oberlohr (2018) at VAULT Festival
- Producer for What Shall We Do With The Cello?, by Matei Visniec, for Atelier Theatre (2017) at VAULT Festival. Highly Acclaimed Award;
- Producer for Das Spiel, mind reading experience by Philipp Oberlohr (2016) at Ovalhouse
Theatre and VAULT Festival. People’s Choice Award;
- Producer for Tales Told in Romanian (2014-2016) – touring Romanian theatre and dance
productions to the UK at The Leicester Square Theatre and The Cockpit;
- Production Assistant for Carmen, for Moving Theatre Company/International Arts Partnership (2012) international arts project featuring new interpretations of the Carmen story using different media through radio, dance, theatre, and performance art by companies from Georgia, Romania, France, and the UK;
- Freelance Theatre Consultant and Producer for the Romanian Cultural Institute’s projects
touring Romanian theatre productions to the UK, to venues including The Barbican Centre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Cockpit Theatre, Leicester Square Theatre, Platform Theatre (part of LIFT), and Edinburgh Fringe.

Performer CV: https://app.spotlight.com/5093-0196-2316

Training

● MA with Distinction in Creative Producing (2011) – London South Bank University, UK. Awarded the Course Director’s Prize for Outstanding Achievement
● BA in Acting (2002) – East 15 Acting School, University of Essex, UK
● (German equivalent to A-levels) Abitur in English, Mathematics, Geography, Spanish (1999) – Maria Wächtler Schule, Germany
● Primary and secondary education at the Philology and History College and William
Shakespeare School (bilingual: Eng/Ro), Timisoara, Romania.