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Cassi Moghan is a British-trained
performer specialising mainly in physical and visual theatre. She has
worked with many Theatre companies including Spare Tyre, Riverside Studios,
Voices In Motion and Upfront. She spent three and a half years with
the Black Mime Theatre company touring Britain and internationally and
was fortunate to be part of the Royal National Theatre tour of South
Africa. She has appeared in several films and worked at the BBC on the
drama "The Biz". She has also worked extensively for radio
and commercial voice-overs. She is also lead singer of the band Bad
Mathematics who recently won Rock FM's New Band competition. She finds
herself juggling all this with being mum to a six and a half year old
boy who shares his mum's passion for the theatrical and plays "being
in a band" rather than cowboys and indians!
Shirin Youssefian
Maanian is a performer and an activist.
She is a founder member of Sirens International Theatre and Dream Divas,
both are bilingual women’s theatre companies, based in Athens.
Her passion for combining theatre and social issues has produced works
on breast cancer, human rights abuse, and the treatment of women in
Iran. She also works in Greece with various non-governmental organisations
dealing with Greek-Turkish relations, women of Iran and Afghanistan
and Human Trafficking.
Her Persian background, British upbringing, life in Romania and now
in Greece have all contributed to her identity as a world citizen.
Shirin's theatre credits include: Medea by Dario Fo and Franca Rame
performed at the Sivas State Theatre, Turkey and at the Halandri Cultural
Centre, Athens; Amazons by Sirens International Theatre, performed at
the Technochoros Theatre, Athens; The Island by Athol Fugard, performed
at the Technochoros Theatre, Athens; At The Crimson Hour They Met by
Nur Theatre, performed at the Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe
Festival; Breaking Veils by Shirin Youssefian, performed at the Octagon
Centre, Sheffield, UK; Blood Wedding by Garcia Lorca, performed at the
Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury, UK; The Company of Wolves by Angela
Carter, performed at the Penny Theatre, Canterbury, UK.
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