Director | Educator | Producer
Kristine began her career as an actress but moved into directing and teaching in the early years of her professional life. She co-founded Tamasha Theatre in 1989 and as Co - Artistic Director directed all but one of the company’s shows. Her 1996 production, East is East, was nominated for an Olivier award and her original production of Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and A Funeral won the Barclays Theatre Award for Best New Musical. Other productions for Tamasha include The Trouble with Asian Men (artsdepot, Soho Theatre and UK tours), A Fine Balance (Hampstead Theatre and UK tour), Child of the Divide (Polka Theatre, artsdepot and UK and US , Sweet Cider, (Arcola Theatre) an adaptation of Wuthering Heights (Lyric Theatre and national tour )The House of Bilquis Bibi (Hampstead Theatre and national tour 2010) and The Arrival, ( national tour 2013) inspired by Shaun Tan's graphic novel in collaboration with Circus Space.
Kristine’s freelance credits include directing with the Royal Court Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Palace Theatre Westcliff, Nitro, Yellow Earth Theatre and The Royal Danish Theatre, where she directed the Con:FUSIONS workshop in 2005, aimed at developing cultural diversity in Scandinavian theatre.
Between 1995 and 1998 Kristine also worked for the BBC as a Senior Producer for Radio 4 producing plays, short stories, series and serials.
Between 2013 and 2016 Kristine has worked in the Higher Education space as Senior Lecturer in Acting at The National Institute of Dramatic Art, Australia (NIDA). Her freelance work in education on her return to the UK has been with a number of schools including Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, East15 Acting School, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, The Royal Conservatoire Birmingham, The Royal Conservatoire Scotland, Identity, Italia Conti, Drama Centre and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has also taught at The National School of Drama, Delhi (NSD) and L’Ecole Philippe Gaulier, Paris.
Her screen credits include Back Chat, Midnight Feast, Vishwamitri Villas, an improvised film made on Zoom, and her first headphone verbatim film Looking For You.
Her most recent work in industry has included Summer Rolls by Tuyen Do (Park Theatre and Bristol Old Vic 2019), The Orchestra by Jean Annouilh (Clapham Omnibus, 2019), Curry Kings of Parramatta (Riverside Theatres, Sydney 2019) and The Serpent’s Teeth (Kings Cross Theatre, Sydney 2018), and Vishwamitri Villas, (Vadodara India 2024).
Her ‘headphone verbatim’ theatre work includes: I Walk In Your Words, (Rich Mix, Omnibus Clapham, Tamasha Blood Moon Theatre, 2017), One Book One Pen, (Dukes Lancaster, 2018), The Talk, (Rich Mix and The Vaults, 2018), Decolonisation: Not Just a Buzzword, (SOAS University, Guild of Psychotherapists, and Cardboard Citizens, 2019), Wild Wild Things (Rich Mix 2022), Nothing but a Number in collaboration with Nottinhgam Playhouse and Sniffing the Flowers in collaboration with Strike A Light, Gloucester 2023. She made her first headphone film Looking For You in 2023.
In 2016, Kristine was awarded an MPhil from The University of East London for her dissertation: “Towards an Intracultural Actor Training : utilising the cultural context of the performer”.
Kristine is currently freelancing in industry and actor training programmes, working for Identity, RADA, Drama Studio, Oxfords School of Drama, Royal Conservatoire Birmingham, East 15, Mountview, LIPA and L’Ecole Philippe Gaulier.
