Christina Laurer : As a native of Vienna, Christina Laurer has specialised in languages since school time, acquiring her A-levels in German, English, French, and Italian. During her studies of English and Italian at the Universtiy of Vienna, she spent two years in Canterbury doing linguistic research at the University College London next to teaching at the acclaimed >King's School<. She continued her professional career in another six months teaching English and German at a technical high school in Turin in Italy. After having been awarded her MA in English and Italian she pursued her academic career doing PhD research into sociolinguistic phonetics. Her PhD thesis Poor Paul: L Vocalisation and the Process of Syllable Coda Weakening will be published. In 2000 she achieved qualified teacher status in Britain and is presently teaching at the Theresianum in Vienna. Since March 2006 she has been lecturing practical phonetics at the Linguistics Department, University Vienna.

Since her early childhood Christina has indulged in dance and theatre. She has a fifteen-year education in ballet and musical as well as in latin-american and classical dance. As a director, she revived the theatrical spirit at the Theresianum with fabulous productions of Three Canterbury Tales (after Geoffrey Chaucer), Thornton Wilder's The Long Christmas Dinner and Mice by Nick Allen. In the last two years, theatre improvisation courses have proved an enriching challenge for her experience on stage. In the >Shakespeare in Styria< productions A Midsummer Night's Dream , Twelfth Night , The Taming of the Shrew as well as The Merry Wives of Windsor she has been a dedicated actress, playing leading roles.