Graham McLaren
Graham McLaren is a UK based theatre artist.
Born in Coatbridge, Scotland in 1970. McLaren trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and graduated in 1992. Since then he has created work ranging from totally improvised and devised work to classical texts. He has performed, designed, written, devised, taught, improvised, choreographed, programmed, directed and produced.
At the age of twenty-five, he established the internationally acclaimed and multi award-winning touring company, Theatre Babel. Although McLaren has always been Theatre Babel's Artistic Director he himself did not direct the productions until 1999. Now his work on European classics can been seen in ancient Greek amphitheatres, black box studios and the main stages of National Theatres and festivals across the world.
In 2005 he was invited to join Perth Theatre, Scotland, as Artistic And Co-Creative Director. The following year he became the Associate Artist for the company and remained with them until Jan 2008 when he started creating work for the Toronto theatre company Necessary Angel, as an Associate Artist.
In 2008 McLaren directed and designed:
- Moliere's The School For Wives for Theatre Babel.
- Shakespeare's Hamlet for Necessary Angel.
- Shakespeares's Macbeth for The Hong Kong Cultural Centre and Theatre babel.