Kristine Landon-Smith

Kristine Landon-Smith (born 1958) is a British actor, director and artistic director of mixed Australian and Indian parentage. Together with Sudha Bhuchar, she founded the Tamasha Theatre Company in 1989.

Life Born in 1958 in London, England, Landon-Smith grew up in Sydney, Australia. In 1978, she returned to the UK to train at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and worked as an actress. In 1985, she co-founded the Inner Circle Theatre Company, producing and acting in a production of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening at the Young Vic studio.

In 2019, she again directed Anouilh's The Orchestra in a TeatroLatino production at the Omnibus Theatre. Later that year, she directed Tuyen Do's Summer Rolls, a domestic drama about a family who have emigrated from war-torn Vietnam to Essex, at the Park Theatre, London.

In 2022, Landon-Smith called for actor training to move beyond Stanislavski's system, and free actors to incorporate the full range of their cultural backgrounds.