McArts

Our Story

Craig McArdle is a freelance actor, director, teacher from the UK. He studied acting at Wakefield College graduating in 2001, and at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2009. Now based in Adelaide South Australia, he is creator of the theatre company McArts. specialising in his own unique creative style which he has developed and shares with the Adelaide community through his company and his teaching at SA Casting and High Schools throughout South Australia.

Craig McArdle has been influenced creatively by UK director Philip Stokes at Horizon Arts Theatre Company performing and collaborating from 2003 in works 'Heroin(e) For Breakfast' 2010 and 'My Filthy Hunt' 2011, ‘The Madness, the darkness, the dancer’ 2008, ‘High wired’ 2005, ‘SPM’ 2005, ‘Who abducted Micky Rourke?’ 2004.

Craig first came to Australia after winning the Holden Street Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2010 for ‘Heroin(e) For Breakfast.’ Craig has self produced, funded and directed 'Loaded Heart' in 2011 which was a sell out season in The Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2011. He has also acted in ‘Bababook’ 2014, ‘Deadline Gallipoli’ 2015, ‘Anzac Girls’ 2014, ‘Moby Dick’ with South Australian State Opera 2011, and Directed and performed in the 2015 Adelaide Fringe show ‘Elvis Hates Me’. In 2016 he performed again with the South Australian State Opera in ‘The Magic Flute’. Criag McArdle is currently creating a new work written by local writer Liam Ormsby, ‘The Furies,’ that premiered in October 2016 was performed in the Adelaide Fringe 2017. He directed a show in Mount Barker, ’24.1’ where industry professionals created theatre in 24 hours, he will direct again in this creative project in 2018. In 2018 Craig performed in the Adelaide Festival in the production of ‘Hamlet’ by Glyndebourne Festival Opera, directed by Neil Armfield. Also in 2018, McArdle will be working with Waxing Lyrical productions performing ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in Adelaide High Schools.