Chris Goode is a writer, director, performer and sound designer, who has been described as ‘one of the most exciting talents working in Britain today’ (Guardian) and ‘an extremely highly regarded alternative theatre maker’ (Caroline McGinn, Time Out). His work has included two Fringe First award-winning shows:
Neutrino (with Unlimited Theatre: Soho Theatre, London, and international tour), and his own solo debut Kiss Of Life (Pleasance, Edinburgh; Drill Hall, London), which in 2007 travelled to Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney International Festival. In 2008 he won the inaugural Headlong / Gate New Directions Award for his production …Sisters at the Gate Theatre. More recently he was part of the international touring cast of Tim
Crouch’s controversial and acclaimed play The Author, winner of the John Whiting Award and a Total Theatre Award for Innovation. Other notable recent work has included: Open House (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Keep Breathing (London Word Festival); Who You Are (Tate Modern) and Where You Stand (Contact, Manchester); Glass House (Royal Opera House Covent Garden); Landscape / Monologue (Ustinov, Bath); The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley (UK tour for Queer Up North); Hey Mathew (Theatre in the Mill, Bradford); King Pelican and Speed Death Of The Radiant Child (Drum Theatre, Plymouth); Longwave (Lyric, Hammersmith); Homemade (Cork Midsummer Festival); Escapology (Newbury Comedy Festival). Chris is currently an Artsadmin Associate Artist. He has previously been Associate Researcher at Rose Bruford College, and is highly in demand as a lecturer and workshop leader. Chris’s The History of Airports: Selected texts for performance 1995-2009 was published in 2009 by Ganzfeld. As a poet he has published three chapbooks with Barque Press, and he has recently edited Better Than Language: An anthology of new modernist poetries for Ganzfeld. He blogs at the widely read Thompson’s Bank of Communicable Desire (http://beescope.blogspot.com)
