Masha is a facilitator, applied theatre and narrative practitioner, and a business consultant with a background in Strategy and People & Culture. She started her career in the PR department of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Holland; the moved on to be Head of Strategy, then Head of People and Culture at Leo Burnett Central and Eastern Europe; and then led consultancies assisting companies and communities on people and strategy matters.

Her interest in arts-based facilitation drove her to an MA in Applied Theatre at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. Masha’s dissertation focused on drag as a methodology for staging personal stories. In the course of studies she had placements with Chickenshed, Phosphoros Theatre and performed as a drag king at the RVT. She collaborates with the Russian LGBT Group Coming Out and works with migrant and queer communities in London as a facilitator and theatre maker. Together with Central classmates, she started Tana Theatre Company and is taking their first show, TANA, to Edinburgh Fringe. Masha started her recovery in Moscow in 2009 and has been in 12-steps programs since then’