Andrew Steggall
trained as an actor at Central and left in 2001. As an actor he played Eric in An Inspector Calls directed by Stephen Daldry and then various roles in plays and workshops directed by Peter Hall, Tim Luscombe and Nick Hytner.

In 2002 he assisted Nicholas Wright in the adaptation of His Dark Materials at the National and then director David Lan at the Young Vic on The Skin of Our Teeth.

In 2003 Andrew established The Motion Group, a theatre company dedicated to the producing and staging of ambitious productions. So far he has produced and directed Over Gardens Out by Peter Gill at the Southwark Playhouse (Time Out and Independent Critics Choice) and The Soldier’s Tale by Stravinsky with Jeremy Irons and the Soloists of the Philharmonia and then with an Anglo/Iraqi company of actors

 

and musicians. Both productions were staged at the Old Vic, London.

In 2005 and 2006 as well as working dramaturgically for over a year on the new Iraqi play Baghdad Wedding by Hassan Abdulrazzak Andrew has assisted the German director Alfred Kirchner on Mahagonny by Kurt Weil and Das Wunderteatre by Hans Werner Henze at the international festival in Montepulciano in Tuscany, directed Reel to Reel for Practicum Theatre at Theatre 503 and a staged reading of Lorca in a Green Dress for the Arcola Viva Lorca Season.

In 2007 Andrew directed La Tragedy de Carmen by Bizet/Brook and Constant for the Wexford Festival Opera and The Lighthouse by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in Montepulciano, Italy. The former is transferring in October 2008 to the Hackney Empire and on tour with ETO.