Xristina Penna
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Credits
| Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 |
Scenographer
Theatre |
A Kiss from the Last Red Squirrel Elyssa Livergant with Rough Memory |
CPT and Shunt Vaults |
| 2007 |
Art director/Set Designer
Theatre |
Holes Poemstomyotherself |
Round Chapel |
| 2007 |
Set Designer
Event |
Metropolis Future Cinema |
Fabric |
| 2006 |
costume designer
Theatre |
Dreams in a Pink Glass Usanu |
Old Sorting Office, Barnes/ Oval Theatre |
| 2006 |
additional construction/costume designer-maker
Event |
Future Cinema Village Future Cinema |
Greenwich Park |
| 2006 |
designer/art director
Event |
Fantasia Event Friends of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology |
South Cloisters UCL |
| 2006 |
writer/designer
Theatre |
Topsy Turvy 2 Fromtescotogrotesco, Write Side of the Brain new writers event |
Baron's Court Theatre |
| 2006 |
Co-set designer for opera
Event |
The Barber of Seville Teatro Degollado, Guadalajara, Mexico |
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| 2005 |
Devising work in a group
Theatre |
Sketches for the Death of Ivan MA Scenography |
Cricoteca, Krakow |
| 2005 |
Producer, Director and set-costume designer
Theatre |
Topsy-Turvy Fromtescotogrotesquo, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design |
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| 2005 |
set and costume designer
Theatre |
Seeking Oedipus Theatre Apo Michanis(Exmachina), Athens, Greece |
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| 2004 |
set designer
Event |
Restricted Area F2 Performance Unit, Bios, Athens, Greece |
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| 2004 |
Set designer
Event |
On the edge F2, Performance unit, Bios, Athens, Greece |
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| 2004 |
Set designer
Film |
Alpha-Omega Kine, Athens, Greece |
Septembre 2004 |
| 2003 |
set designer
Theatre |
Now or Forever, a performance on Time Mitsuko Dead, Thessaloniki, Greece |
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| 2003 |
set designer
Event |
22 Rooms F2 Performance Unit, Athens, Greece |
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| 2003 |
set designer
Theatre |
Dark Room F2, Performance Unit, Athens, Greece |
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| 2003 |
set designer
Theatre |
One Bird's Only Voice (Theatromichani)Experimental Stage of the National Theatre of Greece, Athens |
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| 2001 |
set designer
Theatre |
Agamemnon Fysikou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
Education
| Year | Qualification | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 years diploma in set and costume design in Greece and 1 year MA Scenography in London | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Fine Arts, Drama department, Greece and Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London |
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About me
Christina Penna (Xristina Penna) has been working as a theatre designer in Theatre, Opera, Devised performance, Site-Specific productions, Performance Installations, Events and Education in Athens, Greece but also in London, Poland and Mexico. Throughout her studies and career as a set designer she has worked in groups, but has also carried out independent projects, which have been positively reviewed in the Press. She has been trained as a set/costume designer in the Drama Department of the Aristotle University, School of Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece, (five year tuition). Furthermore, she has obtained a Master of Arts in Scenography at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design. She has also participated in a full - year puppet making and operating workshop, with the puppeteer S. Markopoulos, (UNIMA-Hellas). In her MA degree is where she started producing work in the form of video, animation and performance. Her work is highly symbolic and is experimenting with confronting traditional motifs and their symbolism with today's reality, thus creating environments that mix reality with dream and relate to the uncanny. Since October 2006 Xristina has co-founded Poemstomyotherself, a group of visual and theatre artists with different backgrounds ranging from music and performance to visual arts and creative writing. "We have come together, crossing each others path in our attempts to explore the possibilities of interdisciplinary exchange." The group is currently working in London.Additional skills:
Design and construction of theatre props (such as masks or anything involving paper mache)
Referees:
Jan Picton
Secretary, Friends of the Petrie Museum Tel: removed
H.R.A. Institute of Archaeology, UCL. removed
Sessional lecturer, Egypt and the Ancient Near East
Janet Johnstone
Egyptology Clothing Consultant
14 Vincent Road
Kingston-upon-Thames
Surrey
KT1 3HJ, UK
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Skills
| Job Titles | Costume Designer, Wardrobe / Wardrobe Support, Prop Maker, Set Artist / Designer, Creative Director |
|---|---|
| Years in industry | 6+ years |
| Organisations / Memberships | SBTD (UK) |
| Work Permits | EU |