HENRY MCGRATH

PERFORMER/WRITER/CO-FOUNDER

Animikii Credits: Origins (co-director, deviser, performer), The Kaspar Hauser Experiment (co-writer, performer)

Henry McGrath is a renowned artist, actor, film-maker, physical performance artist and teacher. He has worked within a wide-web of performance worlds.

He was a principal performer at Song of the Goat Theatre, touring globally, and played Hamlet in the company’s celebrated production, ‘Crazy God’. He was the artist Egon Schiele in BBC’s acclaimed doc-drama, ‘Dangerous Desires’ working closely with Amit Lahav, director of Gecko Theatre.

He is Director of Eden's Cave, a laboratory performance group based in the Forest of Dean developing approaches to embodied practice, communal gatherings, live performance, and experimental film with artists locally and globally.

He is Co-Founder of Animikii Theatre and Founder of the Solo School. As well as drawing from his experience of rigorous laboratory theatre practice, his work is becoming more deeply informed by his relationship with the forest environment in which he lives and the development of Aercwel Mill, a small cultural centre dedicated to the art of transformation.