The Creative Team
Alex Diaconu
Desislava Krsteva
Desislava Krsteva
Alex trained in Stage Direction and Acting at the National University of Theatre and Cinematography "I.L.Caragiale" and in Composition and Orchestration at the National University of Music "George Enescu". He went on to specialise in Musical Theatre at the Sorbonne University. After 8 years in France, in 2015, he moved to Brussels, and fo
Alex trained in Stage Direction and Acting at the National University of Theatre and Cinematography "I.L.Caragiale" and in Composition and Orchestration at the National University of Music "George Enescu". He went on to specialise in Musical Theatre at the Sorbonne University. After 8 years in France, in 2015, he moved to Brussels, and founded Ecole Broadway, the first and only Musical Theatre Academy in Belgium.
Desislava Krsteva
Desislava Krsteva
Desislava Krsteva
Desi graduated from the
Theatre Department of New Bulgarian University. She is experienced in many different acting techniques, such as Stanislavski,
Meisner, Laban, Practical Aesthetics, the Chekhov Approach, Method Acting, Brechtian
Method, Meyerhold, and physical theatre.
Jonathon Sawdon
Desislava Krsteva
Jonathon Sawdon
Jonathon has a BA in Theatre/English and trained at The Poor School, London. He has extensive experience as an actor in theatre, TV, film and as a corporate trainer and voice coach. He is also the resident drama teacher at an international school. He has been based in Brussels for more than 20 years.
Michelle Scott
Michelle Scott
Jonathon Sawdon
Michelle trained at the University of Cape Town. She has had a joyous career on stage and screen, with highlights including playing Mrs de Kok in the 2013 film Long Walk to Freedom, and getting to walk the red carpet at Cannes after playing Elena in the award-winning South African film, Skoonheid (Beauty).
Rudi Galindo
Michelle Scott
Rudi Galindo
Artistic director of Teatro Pachuco since 1982, Rudi mixes silent movie, clowning and his passion for Mexican-American culture in his physical plays. He is co-founding member of Los Payasos Mendigos from 1993 to 2000, with whom he participated in more than 100 performances in 12 countries, and of clownswithoutborders.org which offers fre
Artistic director of Teatro Pachuco since 1982, Rudi mixes silent movie, clowning and his passion for Mexican-American culture in his physical plays. He is co-founding member of Los Payasos Mendigos from 1993 to 2000, with whom he participated in more than 100 performances in 12 countries, and of clownswithoutborders.org which offers free performances and theater workshops to indigenous communities in the south of Mexico, to Bhutanese refugees in Nepal and to poor people in Soweto in South Africa.