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Fionn is a Bristol-based performer and theatre-maker whose practice draws heavily on clown, a dynamic use of the body, visual poetics and the desire to make simple but powerful theatre. As well as making his own solo work, some of his collaborations have taken him to work with The Plasticine Men, Lost Spectacles, Triangle Theatre, Precarious, Karla Shacklock and the Bristol Old Vic. He is a member of Residence, an artist-led organisation creating space for artists to make performance, live art and theatre in Bristol.

Fionn completed a theatre degree at Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire in 2007 and since has studied clown, comedy and improvisation with Angela De Castro, Mick Barnfarther, Gerry Flannagan, Hoipoloi, John Wright, Paolo Nani, The Natural Theatre Company and CIRCA; and physical theatre with Kathryn Hunter (Complicite), Oleg Zhukovsky (Derevo), Jo Strogman Company (Denmark), Tetsuro Fukuhara, Tanya Khabarova (Derevo) and Yael Karavan.

As well as performing and developing his own work Fionn teaches theatre and is currently turning his hand to directing.

News:

11/01/12
Fionn is jetting off to Brighton to do a week with The Plasticine Men
on their new show in development L'Autruche (The Ostrich) based on the life of Marie Antoinette. And then is moving swiftly on Eastleigh to work with Beady Eye
for a 3 week residencey at The Point on their new show Cooking Ghosts.

02/01/12
At the end of 2011 Fionn appeared as Meshak in the production Coram Boy (Colston Hall, Bristol)

Jamila Gavin's Whitbread Award winning novel was brilliantly adapted for the National Theatre by Helen Edmundson (Swallows and Amazons) where it was developed by Tom Morris and directed by Melly Still (War Horse).