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Christopher is the Artistic Director of Slingshot: a young international theatre company, with a vision to create new & exciting theatre through releasing the creative power of the actor. He trained at the Guildford School of Acting for three years, and also with Antonio Fava at the International Stage for Commedia dell’Arte and at the International School of Comic Acting, in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Through his continued partnership with Antonio comes his main speciality of teaching, the Commedia dell'Arte, in which he is one of the UK's most informed practitioners.
He has performed at the Barbican Centre, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Lyric, The Watermill Theatre, The Peacock Theatre, Yvonne Arnaud & Mill Studio, The Royal Albert Hall, the NYMT, for the BBC & the CTA; he has worked in Italy, Switzerland and Kuala Lumpur.

Joy Mills completed both years at L'Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has a degree in Theatre from Swarthmore College USA. In 2008 she performed and collaborated with Theatre Grottesco in Santa Fe, USA on Grottesco's 12th Night. In 2009 she teamed up with Cosmos Productions in Cape Town for Paraphernalia, an object and mask based show which was performed in the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. She has since co-directed and appeared in Duet, a short film with Mercurial Productions, London and appeared in a puppet-based short film with the same company. She is the founder of Two Tomorrows Theatre, a new Lecoq-based company based in London committed to telling great stories with movement, images and music.