ABOUT US

Four women. A Greek, a black Brit, a queer, and a white American walk into a theatre...

Drifting Magpies is a theatre collective, which formed out of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2018.

Their work aims to incorporate and explore the breadth of experience that exists between them as women and makers using elements of scenographic design, humour, and text.

In the way that magpies poke at their reflections in mirrors to try and discern what exactly it is they are seeing, this group of theatre makers is endlessly on the quest to question the boundaries placed around creating 'theatre'.

MEET THE COLLECTIVE

Maddie Oslejsek is a queer theatre artist whose work draws attention to the connections between people and experiences through the application of metaphors via space, sound, light, and text.

At the heart of her work is her passion for creating experimental theatre that challenges the perceptions and expectations of both spectators and makers, aiming to create an experience that urges introspective thinking.

Her work simultaneously highlights the differences and similarities between individuals with a goal of connecting people through shared experiences and understandings.

She has a background in both traditional and devised theatre practices, which she further developed through earning her BA in Theatre at Ohio Wesleyan University and MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.

Cassandra Svacha is a Director and Actor from New York City.

She also is Artistic Associate of Assembly Line Theatre Company that focuses on new and provocative writing in Theatre.

Currently she is working on her MFA from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with whom she has joined these fantastic storytellers the Magpies.

Past works include regional and touring productions and, for the last five years, Director for the Helen Hayes Youth Theatre.

Brigitte Adela is a freelance theatre director, theatre maker, audio artist and artistic director of Written Foundations Theatre Company.

Her previous work includes; Human Nature (The Vaults), Collegiate (Attenborough Arts Centre/Bread and Roses/Arcola), Currents (DeMontford University/Leicester Town Hall), The Good Person of Szechwan (Barons Court Theatre), St George’s Day (Park Theatre) and What Would Quentin Do (Bush Theatre).

In 2016 she was shortlisted for Old Vic 12.

She is currently completing her MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at Central School of Speech and Drama.

Katerina Petridou is currently studying for a Master degree in Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, having already graduated from the Superior Drama School Andreas Voutsinas and the Department of Early Childhood Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

Her interests are short-film making, acting on screen, theatre of the oppressed, psychology, history of Art and writing for children. Her current passion is storytelling of stories that haven’t been heard yet or enough through innovative, exploratory, playful, absurd, mixed & matched theatre that engages the audience and brings site into focus.

Through the Magpies, she loves working with ecstatic and passionate people. Making an invisible world visible through theatre’s magic tools.