Neil McPherson

Who is Neil McPherson?

Neil McPherson is a theatre producer and artistic director.

He was Artistic Director of the New End Theatre, Hampstead, from 1996–1997, and has been the Artistic Director of the Finborough Theatre, London, since January 1999. He was named Best Artistic Director in the London Fringe Report Awards in 2009, and won an Award for the Encouragement of New Writing from the Writers Guild of Great Britain in 2010. He has twice won the Best Artistic Director award at the 2011 and 2012 Off West End Awards, and was named one of The Hospital Club 100 by Time Out and The Hospital Club in 2012.

He has produced over one hundred productions and co-productions with his production company Concordance.

He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama and was a member of the National Youth Theatre for seven years. His acting roles included John Osborne in A Better Class of Person for Thames TV.

As a playwright, his plays include I Wish to Die Singing, a documentary drama on the Armenian Genocide, first presented at the Finborough Theatre in November 2005, performed at the Centre for Armenian Information and Advice, London, in September 2006; and Mumpers Dingle, an adaptation of George Borrow's novels Lavengro and The Romany Rye, presented at Brompton Cemetery Chapel in 2003.