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Cal McCrystal

Director

Career Highlights

Previously for ENO: Iolanthe

Opera credits include: Il mondo della luna (ETO; nominated Best Opera Production Manchester Theatre Award).

Theatre credits include: My Beautiful Circus (Giffords Circus); Carry On, Tony (tour/West End), One Man, Two Guvnors (RNT/West End/Broadway); Don Quixote (RSC); Office Party (Barbican); The Mighty Boosh (Perrier Award) and Auto Boosh (Edinburgh Fringe); Peggy Lee: The Cocktail Hour (King’s Head); ¡Cállate! (Insituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico). Repertory: Derby Playhouse; Liverpool Royal Court; Royal Theatre Northampton; Mercury Colchester; Theatre Royal, Plymouth. National/international tours: Spymonkey; Peepolykus; Noel Fielding; Kate Dimbleby; Cambridge Footlights; Mel & Sue.

Circus credits include : Varekai and Zumanity (Cirque du Soleil); Ohlala (Circus Knie); Pasión sin Puñales (Teatro Circo Price, Madrid); The Saturday Book, Lucky 13, The Thunders, Moon Songs, The Painted Wagon (Giffords Circus).

Film credits include: The Bubonic Play; comedy consultant on: The Dictator; The World’s End; Man Up; The Nice Guys; The Amazing Spider-Man 2; Paddington; Paddington 2 (in which he also appears as Sir Geoffrey Wilcott).

Television credits include: MTV Music Video Awards; Solstrom (Cirque du Soleil); Comedy Cuts (3 series for ITV).

Last updated: 26th July 2023