About Rich Kinsiona
Rich is a UK-based actor, solo performer, deviser, producer and workshop leader working across contemporary theatre, devised performance and screen. His work brings together embodied storytelling, psychophysical training, direct audience address and research-led performance-making.
Working primarily through solo and self-authored forms, Rich develops performances that ask how identity, memory, labour, and cultural inheritance are carried in the body. His processes often begin in physical investigation, through scores, objects, energetic states and spatial relations, before opening into text, dramaturgy and collaboration.
Alongside performance-making, Rich develops participatory workshops influenced by Augusto Boal, using theatre as a tool for dialogue, reflection and collective exploration. He also works as an artist-producer, interested in how solo performance is developed, framed, shared and toured, and in building collaborative models that connect artists, venues and audiences.
His recent theatre and performance work includes ATLAS, Dancing With My Ancestors’ Ghosts, The Gameshow, EPHEMERAL and Living in Your Skin, alongside previous touring and ensemble work including Robin Hood, Othello / A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Last King of Scotland.
Currently completing an MFA in Performance/Acting at Manchester Metropolitan University, following training at Sheffield Hallam University and the Identity School of Acting, Rich is developing a body of original work aimed at national and international touring.
Why? I am driven by the desire to make performance that transforms lived experience into embodied form. My work is motivated by questions of identity, memory, labour, endurance and inheritance.
What? I want to create a solo performance that resonates across cultures, invites reflection, and opens space for conversation through both performance and participation.
How? I work through psychophysical practice, devised processes, physical training, text exploration and image-making. My work often starts with the performer’s body and grows through repetition, dramaturgy and symbolic action. As a producer of my own work, I am also interested in curation, touring strategy, audience journey and the practical frameworks that help performance reach people.
Who? My practice is informed by artists and companies working across devised, embodied and self-authored performance, especially those exploring identity, ritual, language, transformation and presence.