Christine Walters - Jeri-Anne

Christine Walters is a Performance Artist and Artistic Director of LiveArt.London. (www.liveart.london)  She and her creative posse have put on themed Performance Painting events with LIVE DJ’s, costume, photography and video.  She has performed in NYC, Tokyo, Washington, DC, Amsterdam and London for these events.   Christine has also performed in several off Broadway productions in New York City and been a supporting actress to major Hollywood Films in NY & London.  In addition to Christine’s creative life she served a successful 13 years in several Corporate Leadership positions for a major global company in the United States.  It was Corporate America that helped her discover her love for bourbon.

Roshni O'Riordan - Amira

Originally born in India, and been brought up in New Zealand, Roshni has now settled in the UK. She has decided to pursue her passion and aims to become a working actress. Having been involved in a series of short films and most recently a pilot TV show 'Here I Come' She am truly thrilled to be part of this production, and we are delighted to welcome her to the cast. ROSHNI O'RIORDAN - AMIRA

Daniel Kewn - Danny

After performing as Simon Bliss in "Hay Fever" at the Peoples Theatre in Newcastle, Daniel moved to London to pursue a career in acting. Since moving to London in July 2015, Daniel has worked on several short films in leading roles while training with City Academy. Daniel will shortly be making his London Theatre debut with Proforҫa. He is a qualified gymnastics coach with an active background in the sport. He has a passion for music and is a competent drummer...he also once solved a Rubik’s Cube in 45 seconds.

Paris Bailey - Will

Paris started as a Berkovian actor, with numerous credits such as East and Brighton Beach Scumbags. His career 'highlight' was Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot several years ago, a play he wants to revisit in his latter years. Recent credits include Pinter's Betrayal and A Midsummer Nights Dream.

Paris is currently working with Dramatize Co, (www.dramatize.co.uk) - a company which aims to break barriers within mainstream theatre, making theatre accessible for all body types. They hope to tour in 2016.

Catrin Keeler - Becky

Catrin Keeler trained at The Academy Drama School London and has attended The Central School of Speech & Drama. Previous roles include Carol in Shakers, Justine Ross in Harper Regan, Pogo in Pond Life and has toured as Jack in a musical version of Jack and The Beanstalk. Catrin is an experienced voice over artist with a catalogue of work including continuity announcing, corporate and radio work as well as narration and voicing audio books. She has also had lead roles in various short films and corporate works. Catrin’s dream role would be behind the bar in Coronation Street or in anything directed by Shane Meadows. (Even if it was an advert for toilet cleaner!)

Flannan Hassett - Matt

Flannan Hassett last took to the stage in an original production of "Endurance: Through their eyes" at the Tristan Bates Theatre. After completing his training at RaAW School Theatre and Film in 2015 he enjoyed a run of on screen roles but the stage is where he belongs. Having treaded the boards at The Tricycle Theatre, The Park Theatre and Camden Community Theatre along with several Pantomime runs he is ecstatic to be taking to the stage once again as Matt in "Don't Leave Me This Way". Flannan is also a huge fan of Shakespeare's classical work and looks forward to one day playing a lead in any one of his plays. 

Casting Announcement

Proforҫa Creative is delighted to announce the cast for it’s new production of “Don’t Leave Me This Way” – a brand new play which will present it’s first performances at a London Fringe venue in May 2016.  

“Don’t Leave Me This Way” is written by James Lewis and is directed by David Brady and produced by Martina Schøning for Proforҫa Creative.

 

Meet The Team - Rui Gonzaga

As one of Proforca's Founding Trustees, Rui provides support to Proforca across a number of different areas, including governance, organisation and representation. Rui's role is to provide consultation and also holding us to account in terms of quality and administration.  Rui is one of our Founding Trustees. 

Rui is from Hackney, and proud of his heritage, speaks fluent Portuguese. A lifelong Arsenal fan, Rui is fond of fast motorbikes, Muay Thai Boxing and MMA. Rui has travelled extensively in Europe, Asia and the USA. 

Meet the Team - Martina Schoning

Martina's role as Business Manager is a key role for Proforca as it is responsible for all of our business affairs, including Finance, IT, and all of our general management and administration.  Martina is one of Proforca's Founding Trustees. 

Martina is Norwegian & Italian, and speaks 5 languages (English, Norwegian, Italian, Swedish & French) and has lived all over the world including Oslo, Vienna, Rome, Moscow, Brussels, Tasmania, Santa Fe and now London!  In her spare time, Martina enjoys travelling, live music and runs a successful Nordic Supper Club in London's East Village. (www.mnmsupper.co.uk)

Meet The Team - David Brady

In his role as Artistic Director, David is responsible for overseeing the programming, direction and output for Proforca's creative projects and is one of our Founding Trustees.  

David originally hails from Coventry in the West Midlands and has lived in London since 2004. In the rare event he gets any spare time, he enjoys music, cult science fiction, theatre and having travelled extensively in Europe, the US and to India - has racked up a fair few air miles in the last few years. One of his best experiences was driving a husky team at the North Pole! Spending lots of time in airports gives David the chance to do lots and lots of writing!

The First One!

Hello and welcome to our website!

Things are really kicking off for us here in East London and we are in the process of working to launch our first project, a brand new theatre production called "If I Go" by James Eve, which we are hoping to premiere at a London fringe theatre venue sometime later this year. 

We have a lot of projects in the pipeline, from launching the play (and everything that goes with it!), to our first full readthrough at Theatre Delicatessen next weekend (More information to follow!) We've got our cast of actors hard at work and we are looking forward to bringing everyone together for what promises to be an interesting and exciting day to workshop and review the new script in more detail. 

Other than that - we're still working on other background projects, whether its making updates to our website (you'll start to see things evolving round you and we hope you will be a regular enough visitor to notice!) or updating social media and developing new and interesting ways to communicate. 

So, if you haven't already, please do reach out to us on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram - all of the links are somewhere on our site, and keep checking our website for new information and updates from us as we go about developing our projects. We're always on the lookout for new and interesting people to join us, so if you'd let to get on board, whether from an acting or a production standpoint, please do let us know and get in contact with us, we'd love to hear from you!

Team Proforca