Emerging Theatre Producer
Kristie Winsen is an emerging theatre producer with experience in both business and the performing arts. Her strong aptitude for project management is key to her success, as is her ability to manage, organise and leverage the talents of other creatives.
Kristie is passionate about the unique type of teamwork possible within a musical theatre cast. She has experience working with musical theatre graduates, emerging artists and West End professionals. Her portfolio to date encompasses cabaret concerts, new musical writing, and musical theatre in new digital formats.
Kristie holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing & Finance) from UNSW, Sydney, and a Diploma in Musical Theatre from the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, London.
Recent and current projects include:
Kristie is currently working with Adam Gerber and Ellis Kerkhoven on a new musical, designed for a single performer, that poses the question ‘do our lives still have inherent value if they go completely wrong?’. The work includes topics such as redundancy, relationship breakdown, loss and isolation. Challenging and ultimately uplifting, it is very relevant to our current times. Kristie has commissioned the musical and holds producing rights. Hear music from Kerkhoven-Gerber.
UPLIFT connects audiences from around the world on Zoom for an at-home concert of inspiring musical theatre. Suitable for the entire family, each concert features musical theatre graduates, emerging artists and established West End and Broadway performers singing well-known musical theatre songs, as well as songs from animated films and movie musicals. Kristie founded this online concert series in 2020, producing and presenting each concert, and has seen the audience grow to reach over 25 countries.
UPLIFT Live at The Theatre Cafe launched in November 2021. These special live UPLIFT performances feature favourite musical theatre songs, exclusive interviews, audience participation, and UPLIFT's iconic intermission dance break. Performed for a live audience at The Theatre Cafe in London's West End while also live-streaming around the world on Zoom, this is a true hybrid event that successfully engages both live and online audiences.
UPLIFT Together brings uplifting musical theatre into a live space for audiences of all ages. This brand new set list of group numbers is designed especially for a live audience and enables UPLIFT performers to sing live and together for the first time. The performance features some of UPLIFT's unique musical medleys including the UPLIFT Princess Medley. UPLIFT Together first launched at The Wandsworth Arts Fringe.
Raising Me Up, a musical theatre concert, was performed at The Phoenix Arts Club in London in 2019. It featured a cast drawn from graduating Musical Theatre Diploma students at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. Kristie leveraged the friendship, closeness and unity of the rehearsal room in this concert featuring duets, trios and group numbers in a directed and choreographed performance.
In 2018, Kristie produced and performed in her own cabaret concert, featuring two guest performers. The afternoon concert encompassed music and stories. Kristie performed the cabaret at The Phoenix Arts Club in London, then toured the concert to the Adamstown Arts Centre in Newcastle, Australia.