Simon Gleave

A theatre artist who tells stories using movement (mime, dance, mask) sometimes mixed with non-conventional texts to transform the body and transgress boundaries of accepted comfort. His practice derives from the work of Jacques Lecoq where the moving body and multiple

languages of gesture and spatial rhythm (clown, commedia, bouffon, chorus) evoke distinct psycho-physical territories of research. His work has been commissioned by Rose Bruford, shortlisted for LET Award and noted for Outstanding Ensemble in NOW Magazine. His main interest is the area of the abject, of people who are abandoned, sick or struggling with a form of physical or spiritual death. He is co-writing and editing a book with David Glass entitled Alchemy of Extraordinary which documents David Glass’ internationally applied creative practice (UN, Save the Children) and extending it into a dialectic on creativity with established British theatre figures Mike Alfreds (RSC, RNT, Shared Experience), Benji Reid (Choreo-photolist), Amit Lahav (AD Gecko Theatre), John McGrath (AD MIF), Joyce Henderson (Complicite) and Liam Steele (DV8, Frantic Assembly). Recent work includes: Last Party on Earth (jeudi/The Music Troupe,

director); Yellow Wallpaper(Created a Monster/Rose Bruford, co-director); Unforgettable Girl (co-director); Mortgage (David Glass Ensemble/Created a Monster/Grussomhetens Teater, performer); Conspiracy of Orphans (Created a Monster, performer-director).