Jonathan V McGrath
Director
Jonathan V McGrath trained in acting at the Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre and has held associate and resident artist status in venues across the UK, he is a Director, Dramaturge and Lecturer and has made and toured new theatre productions for venues and festivals across the world. Jonathan is currently living in the North of England.
Jonathan is an accomplished director and has a long list of successful performances to his name that have been diverse in scale, style and staging. His work has been most heavily influenced by the work of directors Jerzy Grotowski, Louise Lowe and Simon McBurney.
Jonathan's work is made with a strong visual style and the audience is complicit with what goes on, largely site specific in nature Jonathan has fed, blindfolded, boozed and flirted audiences through his productions. Jonathan's first company Ikebana Performance took it's ethos from the ancient art of ikebana flower arrangement, the flowers are held with the same importance as the vase and the shelf and the light. All components are equal in the composition. This is an ethos that Jonathan has carried with him throughout his career in theatre.
Jonathan has several new productions opening throughout 2015 and early 2016 and is currently being mentored in directing for opera by Stefan Janski; Head of Opera at the Royal Northern College of Music.
