Craig is shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Futures Award 2026 for Theatre Directing and is a recipient of NEMO from Nordic Culture Fund to begin a shared research project in 2026 with Copenhagen-based company, fix+foxy.
Craig is currently working with Factory International towards a work of scale and in 2024 was awarded the inaugural Artist Takeover at Aviva Studios. In 2021, Craig was awarded the Jerwood Live Work Fund, and in 2023, he was a recipient of the Jerwood New Work Fund.
Craig graduated in 2020 with a First Class BA (Honours) in Contemporary Performance Practice from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Craig regularly collaborates with Mammalian Diving Reflex, and is Lead Artist and Director for Walk With Me While I Remember You. He has also worked regularly with Glasgow-based performance company 21Common and Manchester-based Quarantine, including as a performer in 12 Last Songs.
Craig McCorquodale Craig McCorquodale is an artist based in Glasgow, pushing theatre into public space and public space back into the theatre. Often working with local people rather than actors, his projects ask us to look more closely at the people we share our streets with.
Craig makes performance events in all kinds of spaces, and craves fragile, visceral, ineffable, accidental, unforeseen or seemingly impossible live moments that upend the tyranny of theatre and model new and vital ways of existing together. He stages situations that wrestle with what it means to live alongside each other at this moment in history, inviting all kinds of people into the process — from an embalmer to construction workers to the Town Crier of Greater Manchester.
Craig seeks to mobilise a new movement of civic theatre in the UK, rooted in the traditions of socially-engaged practice but with a renewed sense of scale – exploding the possibilities of what theatre can look like. As a director, he works with theatre’s familiar languages of temporality, storytelling and audience experience but embraces expanded ideas of encounter, spontaneity, site, conversation and risk. fragile, visceral, ineffable, accidental, unforeseen or seemingly impossible live moments can upend the tyranny of theatre and model new and vital ways of existing together. At the heart of his work lies a deep fascination with the lives of others and a desire to find common ground in times of conflict. When public space is being eroded, and polarisation is rampant, Craig’s work asks what it means to assemble.
Alongside his own work, Craig is committed to opening up new curatorial thinking and supporting the sector in taking braver, more adventurous roles in the public sphere.
Craig has recently been Artist in Residence at Kaserne Basel and has been shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Futures Award for Theatre Directing 2026. He has worked with the National Theatre of Scotland, Transform Festival, Wunder der Prarie Festival, Zeitraumexit, Tramway, Viernulvier, Theater Neumarkt, FABRIC, British Council, MCA Chicago and Cifas (Brussels).
