Rachel Karafistan is a British performer, teacher, academic, and director based in Berlin. In 2001 she completed her PhD research into Shamanic dimensions within contemporary theatre practice. For many years, Rachel ran regular workshops exploring the connections between the actor and the shaman internationally and often with her long-term collaborator, Professor Brian Bates. Rachel was an actor with internationally acclaimed Polish company Teatr Biuro Podrozy from 2000 - 2003. Aside from her performing and directing work with COSmino, Rachel has directed for Greenwich Theatre and East 15 Acting School, Northampton and Leeds Universities and since 2017 Rachel and Kuba of COSmino have worked as visiting directors for Salzburg Landestheater, Austria where they directed King A in 2017 and Paula's Reisen which premiered in Spring 2019. Rachel's latest solo performance Dreams Die Hard premiered in October 2018 in Berlin and is currently on tour. Rachel is a faculty member at Arthaus Berlin. Kamil Maciejko is a nocturnal being who only drinks coffee and eats mozzarella. He never wears pyjamas and in the smoky hours of darkness reads Terry Pratchett, listens to music, and draws. He lives in Berlin.