About us

Artistic Directors:

Sara Masters

Sara trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and worked as an actor before forming the award winning theatre company, fervour in 2002. She joined iceandfire in 2004 as producer for the London run and UK tour of Crocodile Seeking Refuge. She has since developed he company’s education and participation programmes, writing iceandfire’s first production for young people, Separated, and creating the ‘Protect the Human’ playwriting competition. Sara also holds an MA in Human Rights from University College London.

Christine Bacon

Christine Bacon is originally from Australia, where she was an actor for many years until the Australian government’s actions towards asylum seekers and refugees urged her (and thousands of other Australians) to take action. She has a postgraduate degree in Political Science, has been involved in numerous grassroots campaigns, including Actors for Refugees Australia, where she remained one of the core members until she moved to the UK in 2004 to complete an MSc. in Forced Migration at Oxford University. She founded and runs iceandfire’s outreach network Actors for Human Rights.

Founder and Associate Writer:

Sonja Linden

iceandfire was founded in 2003 by playwright Sonja Linden inspired by her seven years as writer in residence at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Sonja’s plays have been produced in theatres across the UK and USA. Plays for iceandfire include: I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda and Crocodile Seeking Refuge. Other work includes: Call Me Judas (Paines Plough, Finborough Theatre), The Jewish Daughter, sequel to Brecht’s The Jewish Wife (New End Theatre) and The Strange Passenger (Paines Plough, Battersea Arts Centre).

Media & Communications Officer:

Charlotte George

Charlotte George began working part-time for iceandfire theatre in November 2008, although her association with iceandfire’s outreach network Actors for Human Rights dates back to its original inception, as Actors for Refugees in Australia. Charlotte was a volunteer performer, producer and director for AFR (Australia) until operations ceased in mid-2008. She has also volunteered for ‘Spare Lawyers for Refugees’ film project Detention Remembered and for FilmAid. Charlotte has worked as a writer and director on short films and music clips since 1998. Before relocating to London, she was the Communications Officer at the Australian Drug Foundation.

Regional Co-ordinator, Actors For Human Rights:

Clea Langton

Clea is based in Sheffield and has been working part-time as the Regional Coordinator of Actors for Human Rights since September 2008. She has over ten years professional experience in performing arts and education in Australia and moved to the UK in 2004. In the UK, Clea has directed new writing theatre for the London and Edinburgh Fringe and worked as a Drama and EAL Teacher in Secondary schools and has been an active member of Actors for Human Rights since May 2007. Clea’s work with refugees in education has prompted her to focus both her teaching and theatre practice on themes of forced migration and she is currently completing an MA Refugee Studies at University of East London with a focus on young refugees.

Administrator

Lil Binham

Lil trained as an actress at Guildford School of Acting, and worked professionally before moving into theatre administration. She worked as Company Administrator and Tour Booker for Penny Dreadful Productions and with Icarus Theatre Collective before joining Ice&Fire in Feb 2010. In her spare time she runs children’s drama classes which although exhausting, she finds incredibly rewarding. Lil is a passionate believer in the arts’ ability to be educational, inclusive and challenging.

Associate Artist

Kieran Sheehan

In addition to running iceandfire’s Children Together project, Kieran is the associate artist of Upswing: an aerial theatre company based in London. He was the recipient of the 2008 Marion North Mentoring Scheme Award from the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund. Kieran is currently developing work as an independent artist and freelancing as a movement director within theatre.

For iceandfire: movement direction Separated (dir. Sara Masters, 2008), Asylum Monologues, Rendition and Asylum Dialogues (dir. Christine Bacon, 2008)