Biography

Actor,  writer, director, and co-founder of Complicite, Simon McBurney has written, directed and acted in more than 30 productions for  the company. His most recent work as director is A Dog’s  Heart, an original opera produced by De Nederlandse Opera  in collaboration with Complicite. Other recent work includes A Disappearing Number, Measure for Measure, A Minute Too Late, The Elephant Vanishes, Pet Shop Boys meet Eisenstein (Trafalgar Square) and Strange Poetry (with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in the Walt Disney Concert Hall). Other directing includes All My Sons (with John Lithgow, Diane Wiest, Patrick Wilson and Katie Holmes on Broadway), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (with Al Pacino in New York) and Lenny Henry’s So Much Things To Say. As an actor he performs extensively in feature films including Body of Lies, The Duchess, The Last King of Scotland, Friends With Money and The Golden Compass.  He was most recently seen in the BBC’s Rev. Simon is the recipient of the 2009 Yomiuri Theatre Award Grand Prize for Best  Director for Shun-kin and the 2008 Berlin Academy of Arts Konrad Wolf Prize for outstanding multi-disciplinary artists.