About

Harry Giles is from Orkney, Scotland, and is:

• a performance-maker (MA Theatre Directing, East 15 Acting School 2010)
• a poet (page, stage, everywhere)
• an environmental specialist
• working with Forest, Edinburgh’s radical multi-arts venue
• a facilitator and workshop-leader
• a cyborg
• an author of interactive fiction
• a rebel clown
• a twitterer, for his sins
• a self-publicist

As a performance-maker, he has been programmed by festivals and venues including the Soho Theatre, the Ovalhouse, Forest Fringe and Arches LIVE. As a poet, he has given feature performances at nights including Chill Pill, JibbaJabba and Last Monday at Rio; won multiple slams including the UK Student Slam (2008), the BBC Scotland Slam (2009), the Glasgow Slam (2010); and been published in journals including Magma, PANK and Drey. He has developed and delivered workshops for organisations including Keats House, People & Planet, and the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

You can download his cv and portfolio, read his professional credits and contact him at harry@harrygiles.org.