Hear from our festival directors
" With this festival, I’m hoping to provide a creative and open space; an opportunity for young theatre makers to challenge and explore their boldest ideas; something they’ve always wanted to try but couldn’t.
I want them to think about what kind of industry they want to work in and begin to shape it with their own work together — new works, daring community, bold theatre. "
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— Kristina Pakhomova,
Festival Co-Director & Co-Founder of Bold Moment Theatre
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" In the spirit of ‘scratch nights’, ‘Quick & Bold’ aims to be a platform for new ideas, practices and conversations for emerging artists or practitioners looking to develop a new aspect of their craft with others.
Bold moments are fleeting but are the spaces where we can ‘take the plunge’ with a little less thinking and a lot more intuition. I’m hoping that after the quick and bold moments in the preparation and presentation of this festival, all of us involved can glean a little more courage and experience from having to put ourselves and our ideas out there. "
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— Khairul Kamsani,
Festival Co-Director & Co-Founder of Bold Moment Theatre
About Quick & Bold (2022)
Quick & Bold (2022) is the first 10-minute play festival held by Bold Moment Theatre to provide the stage and space for directors, playwrights, and performers to share their wildest ideas, hone their skills, and present their works to an audience for the first time.
About Bold Moment Theatre
As a versatile multi-disciplinary theatre company, Bold Moment Theatre encourages anyone and everyone to express themselves freely and authentically through acting, directing, writing, devising, and more. Founded by professional actress Kristina Pakhomova and theatre director Khairul Kamsani, Bold Moment is a space for acting, theatre and performance that is authentic, brave and mindful.
Meet the Team
Kristina Pakhomova
Festival Co-Director / Co-Artistic Director of Bold Moment
At the age of five, Kristina Pakhomova’s destiny was sealed when her mother became a lead actress with a local theatre group in Russia. Watching her mother acting on stage, show after show, created a spark in Kristina that inspired her to make a life-changing decision- one day it would be her on that stage. ​Many of her friends would vouch that once Kristina sets her mind on something, there’s no stopping her.
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Having graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts with a BA(Hons) in Acting, Kristina has performed in a number of theatre plays, short films, TV and radio projects as well as producing, directing, writing and performing in her own work. Today, she is the artistic director and founder of KrisP. Production, a Hong Kong-based theatre and film production company, and also the co-founder and co-artistic director of Bold Moment Theatre and Actor Training (Singapore) with her business partner Khairul Kamsani. Kristina’s life mission is to help people express themselves freely and authentically through creativity. She is a true believer that everyone is born creative. Kristina’s goal is to remind her students that they are already creative, and she can show the ways in which they can let themselves be creative.
Khairul Kamsani
Festival Co-Director / Co-Artistic Director of Bold Moment
Khairul Kamsani is a theatre director, researcher and acting teacher on PhD scholarship at De Montfort University conducting practice-based research on Actor Training with Virtual Reality (2021-2024). A graduate from the MA Actor Training & Coaching at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama (2018) after an Assistant Director Residency at Singapore Repertory Theatre (2016-2017). His work as a director, playwright, producer, designer, dramaturg and teacher over the past decade has been across Singapore, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.
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His current thesis Cybernetic Psychophysical Actor Training has been presented at Borderlines VIII: Rejecting, Tracing, Embracing Performance Legacies (2021) by De Montfort University, Leicester, and will be at the upcoming Harnessing a 21st Century approach to Performing Arts: Technology, Practice, Education and Research (2022) by Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. Khairul is a research team member of Architects of Realities (2021-2022), supported by the National Arts Council Arts x Tech initiative; a collective of practitioners conducting practice-based research into the potentialities that Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies can support, supplement or lead theatre making processes.
Giovanni Harris
Production Stage Manager
At a young age, Giovanni was introduced to the performing arts. This sparked his interest in performing, writing, and creating theatre productions. Right after Secondary School, he enrolled in LASALLE College of the Art's Diploma in Technical and Production Management, as he strongly believes that it would provide him with the skills and knowledge required for him to be an all-rounded arts practitioner. At LASALLE, he has discovered an interest in production and stage management, and he looks forward to contributing to the theatre industry in this area.
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He have worked on professional productions such as Cake Theatrical’s Being Haresh Sharma as part of the Stage Crew and Patch and Punnet’s 2042 as the Production Stage Manager and Light Designer. Giovanni also worked as a Stage Manager for Those Who Can’t Teach, directed by Jonathan Lim; Exit, Pursued by a Bear, directed by Toby Papazoglou; and The Insiders, directed by Jo Kukathas. With the addition of Meenah And Cheenah: 2Gether Gather, directed by Selena Tan as an Assistant Stage Manager. Giovanni’s Production Management credits include The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee, directed by Nicole Stinton and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Adam Marple. Giovanni hopes to pursue a career in the performing arts and desires to contribute more towards the theatre industry both locally and globally.
