Harry Haynes-Wright
Director, Actor, and Teacher in Melbourne
Harry Haynes-Wright
Director, Actor, and Teacher in Melbourne
Harry Haynes is a Melbourne based director, educator and researcher. Born in London and raised in Spain he trained at the renowned Drama Centre London. During his training he was awarded both a Leverhulme scholarship as well as the Sir John Gielgud Award Scholarship for excellence.
As a director he has presented work in Melbourne at The National Theatre (Julius Caesar 2020, The Changeling 2021), MeatMarket (Woyzeck + Marie 2019), Brunswick Mechanics Institute (Eros and Agape 2021), Siteworks (Electra) In England as a director Harry was mentored and was assistant to award winning director Di Trevis and worked with her at her Jerwood Theatre Workshopsr, from whom he learnt the skills of dramaturgy and practical directing. It was during this apprenticeship that he worked on the repertoire of Chekhov (Three Sisters), Harold Pinter (Ashes to Ashes), Tennessee Williams (Cat on a hot tin roof) and William Shakespeare (Richard II).
As a theatre maker, he is indebted to the theatrical practice of South London theatre collective DIRTY MARKET led by Jon Lee and Georgina Sowerby which he worked from 2010-2018 work includes Leonora Carringtons's The Hearing Trumpet(2017), Rough classics: Macbeth (2015)& Rough classics: Life is a Dream (2011).
While an actor he worked at UK Theatres such as Shakespeare’s Globe, The Almeida Theatre, Theatre Delicatessen, Platform Theatre, Southwalk Playhouse, Battersea Arts Centre, Camden Peoples Theatre and Old Red Lion. As well as working on screen for BBC, ITV and FOX.
As an educator he has lectured and taught at University of the Arts London, Deakin University, University of East Anglia, Drama Centre London and The National Theatre Drama School. He is currently a HDR candidate at Deakin University, his research looks to address the pedagogy of vulnerability within actor training and its relevance within an evolving professional theatre practice.
In 2018 Harry founded ‘The Liminal Space’ a theatre company and performing arts training community whose aim is to create and present narrative storytelling that speaks to (and is informed by) the physical and social communities in which it operates (orbits).
Harry identifies as neurodiverse (ADHD) .