
Dr Christina (Xristina) Penna
Dr Christina (Xristina) Penna is a performance designer/practitioner and researcher, currently the Programme Leader of the BA(Hons) Technical Theatre and Performance Design, University of Derby. She has worked as a designer for plays, site-specific performances, events, and devised theatre, while her participatory installationwork (xristina penna+aswespeakproject) has been presented internationally in the UK, USA and Greece. In this she works with mixed-media, handmade bizarre objects, inefficient aesthetics and material stemming from the audience to create hybrid collaborative performance installations and actions, which she calls scenographic contraptions. Her research focuses on participatory scenography, scenographic processes, co-creation and human cognition.