Donald Craigie


CURRENT / UPCOMING



ENOS





Created and performed by Donald Craigie



It is sixty years since humanity's pioneering first flight into space. The voyage is a spark in the mind of humankind, a fire of ideas, technology and ambition that blazes all the way to the Moon and back. Enos is a traveller the human race to space picks up along the way, a chimpanzee who looks back at the Earth from the window of his spacecraft and dreams his own dreams.


'Enos' is a new multi-media theatre show devised from personal interviews and research into the mission archives of NASA's History Division. It is a show about life, the Universe... and paper rockets.


Enos first appeared as a work-in-progress at Exeter Northcott's Launch Festival, with support from the Exeter Northcott Futures programme.


ENOS | Teatime Teaser

HOMELAND





Nhung Company
Directed by Nhung Dang



Role: DEVISER & PERFORMER


In a shadowy dreamscape of shimmering nostalgia and ancestral ghosts an entire lifetime plays out in fast forward, overflowing with the quiet tragedies and ecstatic joys of daily existence. Plunging physically and poetically into the depths of identity, HOMELAND asks what exactly makes up a life - your life, my life, all of our lives - and who we might become on our long, long journey from birth to death.


NHUNG COMPANY is a multi-lingual, multi-media visual theatre collective based in the Czech Republic.


Homeland | Première Teaser

STORYTELLER








Donald can be found telling tall tales and fairy fantasies for both young people and their adult grown-ups.


Sometimes unexpected, always inventive, Donald creates work that is playful, poignant and curious.





PERFORMANCE SHOWREEL






ACTOR

Represented by Roheda Managment.



Spotlight CV

RECENT PROJECTS



WHEREIN





Tangled Web
Directed by Emel Yilmaz Holifield



Role: JAMES


James and Eva are stuck. Pinned down by issues they need to unpack and trapped in a house they need to pack up. Unable to speak honestly in their own voices, the evening takes some beautiful and bizarre turns.


Written by Emma Webb

Performed by

Donald Craigie and Elizabeth Dobson


"A delicate, subtle and moving performance."

- Oxfordshire Theatre Makers


Once upon a time this beautiful script got a first line during a 24hr Play Project at the Cornerstone Arts Centre in Didcot. Since then it's grown piece by piece, that first line is somewhere in the middle and there is an empty stage at the Old Fire Station Theatre waiting for a full story.


Offbeat festival performance

SHAKESPEARE ALOUD!





Shakespeare's Birthplace
Directed by Ian Wainwright



Roles: ARIEL / JAQUES / CASSIUS / HAL


Performing with the resident acting troupe to bring Shakepeare's words to life at outdoor and site-specific locations in the town of the playwright's birth.


Performances are directed by Ian Wainwright, associate director with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre.


SHAKESPEARE'S PANTS


As an actor, Donald has also collaborated with Shakespeare's Birthplace to deliver practical workshops in approaching and understanding Elizabethan texts for students and young people.


He can also be heard as a guest actor on Shakespeare's Pants, a podcast with Anjna Chouhan and other actual clever people about what normal domestic activity was like during the life and times of William Shakespeare.


SHAKESPEARE's PANTS

RUN FOR YOUR WIFE





The Mill at Sonning
Written and directed by Ray Cooney



Role: NEWSPAPER REPORTER

Understudy: BOBBY FRANKLIN


This is classic Cooney at his absolute best. Run For Your Wife has delighted audiences with smash-hit runs all over the world. So come along to laugh and laugh until you cry.



SPLATT THEATRE





Written and directed by Sarah Hall



STORYTELLER & PUPPETEER


Performing and telling stories with this immersive and interactive children's theatre company in schools and venues in London and the South East.



SMASH!





Savage Heart Theatre
Written by Rachel Mae-Brady,
Directed by Joy Forsythe




MOVEMENT DIRECTOR


In collaboration with this ensemble during rehearsal and development stages. A new play looking at female experiences encountered in the workplace.


Performed as part of Emanate 2020, a showcase of new work at the Old Fire Station in Oxford.



I'LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT...?





Created and performed
by Holly Delefortrie




DRAMATURG


In collaboration with Holly Delefortrie for this one-woman comedy show. A mixture of clowning, stand-up, storytelling and gameplay currently touring UK theatre festivals.



COME TO DADDY





Living House Theatre
Directed by Sammy Metcalfe and Tiffer Hutchins



DEVISER & PHYSICAL PERFORMER


A live art mash-up of art history and family history and a show about the long, long journey to the here and now.


I have been devising this performance with the Living House Theatre ensemble since graduating from Rose Bruford College. Performances include the Edinburgh Fringe 2018, London fringe theatre venues and at Nottingham Lakeside Arts.


Living House Theatre