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Contact

Christine Bacon
Director,
Actors for Human Rights
Ph: 0207377 5299
or 079 1351 3567
actors@iceandfire.co.uk

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.

As well as completing a postgraduate degree in Political Science, conducting research into such areas as the Temporary Protection Visa and the Australian government’s response to people smuggling, and involving herself in numerous grassroots campaigns, she became heavily involved in an emerging network called Actors for Refugees, and remained one of the core members until she moved to the UK in 2004 to complete a Masters in Forced Migration at Oxford University, where her main research area was detention of asylum seekers in the UK (see this PDF download for the result of this research).

In the UK, she has worked at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, and has been Director of this project with iceandfire since April 2006.

Clea Langton
Regional Coordinator,
Actors for Human Rights
Ph: 078 3478 6381
actorsnorth@iceandfire.co.uk

Clea Langton 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.