Simon McBurney

Simon McBurney is an award-winning actor, writer, director and co-founder of the theatre company »Complicité«. His works range from site-specifiic installations to the reinvention of classic texts on Broadway, therefore continuously resists defiinition, but has always been intimately bound up with music. His opera productions to date have been performed at opera houses around the world, including Alexander Raskatov’s »A Dog’s Heart«, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s »The Magic Flute«, Igor Stravinsky’s »The Rake’s Progress« and Alban Berg’s »Wozzeck«.
With his brother Gerard McBurney, he created works like »Weimar Nightfall« and »Strange Poetry« at Los Angeles Philharmonic and the »Complicité« productions »Out of a House Walked a Man…« at the Royal National Theatre and »The Noise of Time« with the Emerson String Quartet at Lincoln Center. He has collaborated with artits like Peter Maxwell Davies, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Simon Rattle, Tom Waits, Nitin Sawhney, Pet Shop Boysand Honjoh Hidetaro.

Recent work with Complicité includes »Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of The Dead«, »Beware of Pity« (with Schaubühne Berlin),»The Master and Margarita«, »A Disappearing Number«, and »Pet Shop Boys Meet Eisenstein«. Other directing work includes the Broadway highlight »All My Sons« and Berthold Brecht’s »The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui« in New York with Al Pacino
in the main role.

As an actor, he has appeared in many feature films, including »The Pale Blue Eye«, »Mission: Impossible –Rogue Nation«, »The Theory of Everything«, »Magic in the Moonlight«, »Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy«, »Jane Eyre« and »The Duchess and The Last King of Scotland«. Television appearances include J K Rowling’s »The Casual Vacancy«, »Carnival Row« for Amazon Prime, and BBC TV’s »Rev.«.

He was the first British »Artiste Associé« at Festival d’Avignon in 2012 with »The Master and Margarita« opening the Festival. In 2009 he was the first nonJapanese artist who was awarded the Yomiuri Theatre Award »Grand Prize« for Best Director for »Shun-kin« and he was the recipient of the 2008 Berlin Academy of Arts Konrad Wolf Prize for »Europe’s Outstanding Multidisciplinary Artists«.

As an actor, Simon McBurney has appeared in many feature films, including »The Pale Blue Eye«, »Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation«, »The Theory of Everything«, »Magic in the Moonlight«, »Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy«, »Jane Eyre« and »The Duchess and The Last King of Scotland«. His television appearances include J.K. Rowling's »The Casual Vacancy«, »Carnival Row« on Amazon Prime and the BBC series »Rev.«.

He was the first British »Artiste Associé« at the 2012 Festival d'Avignon, where he opened the festival with »The Master and Margarita«. In 2009, he was the first non-Japanese artist to win the Yomiuri Theatre Award's Grand Prize for Best Director for »Shun-kin« and in 2008 he received the Konrad Wolf Prize from the Akademie der Künste Berlin in the category »Europe's Outstanding Multidisciplinary Artist«.