Simon McBurney

Actor, writer, director and co-founder of Complicite, Simon McBurney has created and acted in more than 30 productions and the company has won over fifty major theater awards worldwide.

Recent directing works for Complicite include: "Beware of Pity" with Schaubühne Berlin (2015), "The Master and Margarita" (2012), "The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the English National Opera (2016 and 2012), "A Dog´s Heart" an original opera produced by De Nederlandse Opera and English National Opera in collaboration with Complicite (2010), "Shun-kin" (2008), "A Disappearing Number" (2007), "A Minute Too Late" (2005), "Measure for Measure" by William Shakespeare (2004), "The Elephant Vanishes" based on the short stories by Haruki Murakami (2003), "Pet Shop Boys Meet Eisenstein" and "Strange Poetry" (2004) with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Other directing credits include "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller (on Broadway with John Lithgow, Diane Wiest, Patrick Wilson and Katie Holmes, 2008), "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" by Bertolt Brecht (with Al Pacino in New York, 2002).

In 2012 he was the first British Artist Associé of the Avignon Festival in 2012 and his adaptation of Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" was the festival's centerpiece. In 2009 "Shun-kin" earned him the Yomiuri Theatre Award Grand Prize for Best Director (the first non-Japanese artist to receive the award) and he was the recipient of the 2008 Berlin Academy of Arts Konrad Wolf Prize for Europe’s Outstanding Multi-disciplinary Artists.

As an actor, he has appeared in many feature films, including "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation", "The Theory of Everything", "Magic in the Moonlight", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "Jane Eyre", "The Duchess", and "The Last King of Scotland". Television appearances include J K Rowling’s "The Casual Vacancy" and BBC TV’s "Rev".