GERRARD McARTHUR Gerrard McArthur’s work in theatre includes two long associations: first with the Glasgow Citizens, where he was Strindberg’s The Father, and appeared in plays by Pinter, Gertrude Stein, Heiner Muller and Botho Strauss, for a group of international opera director/designers. The second as directing associate and actor of The Wrestling School, the company dedicated to producing the work of one living author, Howard Barker. His TWS direction includes Barker’s The Dying of Today at the Arcola; and Hurts Given and Received at Riverside Studios (best direction nomination for 2010 Off West End Awards). Other direction includes: Heiner Muller’s Quartet at the Queen’s, Adelaide; and, with Stewart Laing, directing Leigh Bowery in The Difﬁculty of Sexpressing Oneself at Glasgow Tramway and King’s Cross Depot as well as student productions at RADA and Rose Bruford College. As a Wrestling School actor he played the protagonist Priest in Barker’s 8-hour epic The Ecstatic Bible at Adelaide International Festival; Vanya in (Uncle) Vanya at Hebbel Theatre, Berlin; and Toonelhuis in Barker’s Found in the Ground. He played Prospero in The Tempest for Romanian director Silviu Purcurete in Europe and at the Tokyo Globe; The Hanging Man for Improbable at Sydney Opera House; John Bull’s Other Island at the Tricycle; and Present Laughter and Three Sisters at Theatre Royal, Bath; Recently he has appeared at the National Theatre in Harley Granville-Barker’s ‘Waste’ and Howard Barker’s ‘Scenes From An Execution’ and with Border Crossings in a co-production with the Ashtar Theatre of Palestine, in 'This Flesh Is Mine', at Testbed, London. TV includes Bringing Down the House, The Bill, Nuclear Race, Blitz, Family Affairs, Hustle, If, Silent Witness, Holby City, The Gathering Storm, A Touch of Frost, Othello and Attachments. He has also narrated documentaries on the Discover and History Channels. Films include The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Big Love and The Last of England. Radio includes Lawrence in Mexico, Salome, Artists with Designs, Cenci and Wilfred Owen Audio Gallery.