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LARC STUDENT PROFILES
harry mackrill
Harry Mackrill began a full-time Practice-as-Research PhD in October 2023 and is using queer dramaturgy as a research tool to archive the unrecorded experiences of Section 28 for LGBTQ+ youth 1988 – 2003. The project utilises notions of shame, the erotic, cruising and gossip as queer dramaturgical strategies to explore the impact of the legislation on the training and practices of queer-identifying performance makers.
In 2025, Harry began a one-to-one performance project, FABULATIONS, which will journey around the UK as a response to the research question: In what ways can queer dramaturgy be used to research and archive the experience of education under section 28 for queer identifying individuals? FABULATIONS began at the Key Theatre Peterborough, and will visit London, Leicester, Leeds and more. Further information can be found at www.queerdramaturgy.uk
Harry trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama following a Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies undergraduate at Roehampton University. He was Resident Director at the Tricycle Theatre (2013 – 2015), Associate Director at Kiln Theatre (2018 – 2019) and Associate Director for the National Theatre's production of Angels in America (2017). Recent direction includes: Led By the Child (The Lot); What It Means (Wilton’s Music Hall); World’s End and Boy with Beer (Kings Head Theatre).
