Simon McBurney

Personal context

Summary

Simon McBurney is a British actor, writer and director who co-founded Complicité in 1983. His theatre work often combines researched material, overlapping narratives and political, social or philosophical questions; Mnemonic explores migration, origins and memory, while Figures in Extinction addresses the climate crisis and human impacts on nature. McBurney has described his political activism as resistance to consumer capitalism. No public statements on identity politics, DEI, or race, gender or LGBTQ advocacy are on record.