About the speaker

Director and Designer Felix Barrett MBE is the founder and Artistic Director of Punchdrunk, a company whose work is recognised internationally as pioneering game-changing ways for audiences to experience culture across theatre, TV, digital technology and gaming.

Felix has conceived, directed and designed all of Punchdrunk’s site-sympathetic shows, including: The Burnt City, Sleep No More, Shanghai, The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, Sleep No More, New York, The Crash Of The Elysium, The Duchess Of Malfi, It Felt Like A Kiss, The Masque Of The Red Death , Faust, and The Firebird Ball. Additionally, Barrett worked as creative director on Shakira’s “The Sun Comes Out” global tour, and Mumford & Son’s "Delta" tour. For TV, Felix created the BAFTA nominated The Third Day, a six-part TV drama and 12-hour theatrical broadcast for HBO & Sky Atlantic.

Most recently, Felix co-directed Viola’s Room which originally ran in London and is currently running at The Shed in New York - where Felix also directed Luna Luna.

His most recent directing work is Paranormal Activity, which opened at Leeds Playhouse and will be playing in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington DC, as well as transferring to London’s West End from later this year.

Felix was awarded an MBE in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to theatre.