Ingrid Mackinnon

For the National:

Ingrid Mackinnon is a London based movement director, choreographer, and intimacy director.

Training

Ingrid Mackinnon holds an MA in Movement: Directing and Teaching from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre

Intimacy work includes: The Importance of Being Earnest, The House of Bernarda Alba, The Effect and Phaedra at the National Theatre; The Real Thing at the Old Vic; Romeo & Juliet at Duke of York’s; Princess Essex and The Duchess of Malfi at the Globe; Skeleton Crew at the Donmar; Choir Boy at Bristol Old Vic; Shooting Heddar Gabler at the Rose, Kingston; Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy; That Face at the Orange Tree; Tina – The Tina Turner Musical at Aldwych;

As Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Season Associate (intimacy support 2022 and 2023): Es & Flo at Wales Millennium Centre and Kiln; Super High Resolution at Soho Theatre; Enough of Him at the National Theatre of Scotland; and Girl on An Altar at Kiln

As Movement Director and Choreographer: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë at the National Theatre; The School for Scandal, The Merry Wives of Windsor, First Encounters: The Merchant Of Venice, Kingdom Come and #WeAreArrested at RSC; Princess Essex and The Duchess of Malfi at the Globe; Skeleton Crew and Trouble in Butetown at the Donmar; The Big Life and Red Riding Hood at Stratford East; Dreaming and Drowning at the Bush; Choir Boy at Bristol Old Vic; Portia Coughlan at the Almeida; Shooting Hedda Gabler at the Rose, Kingston; That Face at Orange Tree; The Meaning of Zong at the Barbican, Bristol Old Vic and on UK tour; Blue at ENO; Further than the Furthest Thing at the Young Vic; Enough of Him at the National Theatre of Scotland; A Dead Body In Taos for Fuel; The Darkest Part of The Night and Girl on an Altar at Kiln; Playboy of the West Indies at Birmingham Rep; Moreno at Theatre503; Antigone at Colchester Mercury; Romeo and Juliet at Regent’s Park; Liminal – Le Gateau Chocolat at King’s Head; Josephine at Theatre Royal Bath; Typical at Soho; and The Border at Theatre Centre

Awards

Romeo and Juliet – 2021 Best Choreographer at the Black British Theatre Awards

(Updated November 2024)