Company

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Firehouse is a company of experienced young professionals dedicated to finding fresh and dynamic ways of making timeless tales contemporary through international artistic collaboration.

Production history

Firehouse has received rave five star reviews for its first production, I Confess, a one-to-one performance piece in a confessional booth, seen throughout London and at Edinburgh Fringe, Greenbelt Festivals, and soon to be seen at HighTide Festival and Tate Britain. Likewise StoryStation, our audience led interactive performance experience, has received outstanding audience feedback in its four international installations to date. We also have a partnership coming up in which the StoryStation will travel throughout one of London’s largest hospitals, gathering stories across the different wards with patients, family and hospital staff, to develop a play about the hospital itself, in 2010.

Collaborators

Firehouse has bases in the US and the UK and are collaborating with a number of universities, cultural, and community organisations.  We are also currently collaborating with fellow artists based in Romania and in Norway.

About Rachel Parish, Artistic Director

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)

About Cristina Catalina, Creative Producer
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).

About Peter Stickney, Creative Producer

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.

Also working with us on our projects currently are:

Matthew Bickerton, StoryStation Technology Designer and website developer

Emma Mallinder, Marketing

Laura English Rose, Production Assistant

Will Holt, Designer

Joe Hastings, Composer

Daniel Goldman, Dramaturg

Tangled Feet, Collaborators

Melanie Barry, Outreach Producer