Gerry Mulgrew

From his beginnings in community theatre Gerry has gained an over whelming wealth of experience across the performing arts. A self made artist and collaborator, he co-founded Communicado Theatre Company in 1983, going on to direct over thirty shows.

As director, playwright and actor, Gerry has collaborated with many artists and companies in Scotland, the UK and abroad. From award winning Carmen, which was invited to the Theatre Project in Baltimore, Maryland, to opening the Glasgow 1990 City of Culture with Jock Tamson’s Bairns, Gerry’s work has been widely varied and iconoclastic. 

He has won many awards, including six Fringe Firsts at the Edinburgh Festival and has commissioned many plays and translations including Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off by Liz Lochhead and Cyrano de Bergerac by Eddie Morgan.

He has directed the RSC at Stratford, and has mounted shows in London, the United States, Europe, Africa and China. His production of Playboy of the Western World was toured by the British Council to Turkey and Egypt and in London his work has been seen at the Donmar Warehouse in the West End, the Almeida and the South Bank.

As an actor he has also been prolific, working in many theatres in Scotland, London and abroad over the past 50 years.

Gerry co-created and directed Deiseil: Dancing in Time and has been involved in the company since 2024.