Ingrid Mackinnon is a London based movement director, choreographer, intimacy director, teacher and dancer.
Movement direction: Toto Kerblammo (Unicorn Theatre) Princess Essex (Shakespeare's Globe) Skeleton Crew (Donmar) The School for Scandal (RSC) The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC) Underdog:The Other Other Bronte (National Theatre/Northern Stage) The Duchess of Malfi (Globe - Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) Dreaming and Drowning (Bush Theatre) Portia Coughlan (Almeida) Choir Boy (Bristol Old Vic) - won Best Production Play at 2024 Black British Theatre Awards Shooting Hedda Gabler (Rose Theatre) That Face (Orange Tree) Every Leaf a Hallelujah (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre) Blue (English National Opera) - nominated for Best New Opera 2024 Olivier Awards Further Than the Furthest Thing (Young Vic) Trouble in Butetown (Donmar Warehouse) Enough of Him (National Theatre of Scotland) - won Best New Play and Best Production at 2023 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland A Dead Body in Taos (Fuel Theatre) The Darkest Part of the Night (The Kiln) Girl on an Altar (The Kiln/ The Abbey) The Meaning of Zong (Bristol Old Vic/UK Tour/Barbican) Moreno (Theatre 503) Josephine (The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath) Red Riding Hood (Stratford East) Antigone (Mercury Theatre) Romeo & Juliet (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre) - won Best Choreography at 2021 Black British Theatre Awards Bonnie & Clyde (UWL: London College of Music) Hamlet (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) First Encounters: The Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company) Typical (Nouveau Riche) The Border (Theatre Centre) Breathing Space (Royal Court) Liar.Heretic.Thief (Lyric), ReImagining: Cacophony (Almeida) #WeAreArrested (Royal Shakespeare Company/ Arcola) Kingdom Come (Royal Shakespeare Company) #DR@CULA! (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) Fantastic Mr. Fox (associate movement director- Nuffield and Lyric Hammersmith)
Choreography: The Big Life (Stratford East) - nominated for Best Choreography at 2024 Offies Playboy of the West Indies (Birmingham Rep) Hansel and Gretel (Uchenna Dance) - assistant choreographer The Headwrap Diaries (Uchenna Dance) - assistant choreographer
Intimacy: Wolves on Road (Bush Theatre) Coriolanus (National Theatre) The Real Thing (Old Vic) Skeleton Crew (Donmar) Romeo and Juliet (The Duke of York’s Theatre/Jamie Lloyd Company) The Duchess of Malfi (Globe- Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre) Sunset Blvd (Savoy Theatre/Jamie Lloyd Company) - won Best Musical Revival at 2024 Olivier Awards Shooting Hedda Gabler (Rose Theatre) Choir Boy (Bristol Old Vic) The Effect (National Theatre/TheShed NY/Jamie Lloyd Company) - nominated for Best Revival 2024 at Olivier Awards Tina Turner Musical (Alydwch) Es & Flo (Wales Millenium Centre/The Kiln) Phaedra (National Theatre) Super High Resolution (Soho Theatre) Intimacy Support - Carousel (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre) Intimacy Support, Season Associate 2022 and 2023 (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre) Girl on An Altar (The Kiln) Enough of Him (National Theatre of Scotland)
Romeo and Juliet at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre 2021 photo by Jane Hobson
Ingrid was a guest on the podcast Creative Practice. Listen to her episode where she discusses her journey to becoming a full person and storytelling through the body - Creative Practice Podcast
In 2021, Ingrid won Best Choreographer at The Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs) for her work on Romeo & Juliet at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. The BBTAs was established to highlight and celebrate the influence of Black performers and creatives in the UK’s artistic legacy, and the impact of their contributions on an International level.
Latest article for Broadway World about her movement direction work on The School for Scandal at the RSC. - Read Here