MACKRILL (Director)
Harry is a director for stage and screen. He is currently Co-Founder and Creative Director of The Lot Productions, alongside producer Nisha Oza, making independent work with inclusive mindset.
Harry directed The Lot’s inaugural production, What It Means by James Corley, adapted from the essay On Being Different by Merle Miller, at Wilton’s Music Hall in October 2023 (“vital theatre” – The Guardian).
Their first slate of commissions is called ADAPT, for which he is dramaturg, and includes: • Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi, adapted by Carmen Nasr
Harry is currently a recipient of the Leeds School of the Arts Doctorate Scholarship (2023 – 2026) for his practice-based PhD Research Project titled Using queer dramaturgy as a research tool to understand the impact of Section 28 through actor training.
He regularly teaches across the BA and MA Acting Programmes at MOUNTVIEW ACADEMY OF THEATRE ARTS and within the Criminal Justice System for SYNERGY THEATRE PROJECT.
He was Associate Director for the Kiln Theatre’s reopening Season 2018 – 2019, and the inaugural Resident Director, supported by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, for Indhu Rubasingham’s tenure at the Tricycle Theatre 2013 – 2015, where he assisted on projects including Lolita Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet, Moira Buffini’s Handbagged and Marcus Gardley’s The House that Will Not Stand.
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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Peter Gynt | National Theatre/EIF | Dir. Jonathan Kent |
Angels in America | National Theatre | Dir. Marianne Elliott |
The Motherfucker in the Hat | National Theatre | Dir. Indhu Rubasingham |
Handbagged | Tricycle/West End/UK Tour/Washington DC | Dir. Indhu Rubasingham |
DIRECTOR
What It Means | The Lot productions at Wilton's Music Hall | |
Road | Synergy Theatre at the Chelsea Theatre | |
World's End | King's Head | |
Boy With Beer | King's Head | |
Let Kilburn Shake | Young Company at Kiln Theatre | |
Wig Out! | National Theatre | Co-director with Tarell Alvin McCraney |
DRAMATURGY
The Promise | Chichester Festival Theatre | Dir. Jonathan Kent |
The Orchard of Lost Souls | Dir. Abdul Shayek |
SCREEN DIRECTION
Led By The Child (as writer/director) | The Lot Productions | Greenwich Film Festival 2024/Official Selection |
Adjustments | Co-Producer with If Opera | British Short Film Award 2022/Official Selection; Manchester Film Festival 2023/Shorts on Tap 2023 |