Actor
Jonathan Moore has had a prominent career as an actor working at the highest levels of theatre, film and television in the U.K. for over twenty years.
Leading roles in the theatre have included those with the Royal Shakespeare Co, at the Royal Court, the Chichester Festival, the Royal Exchange, the Donmar, London, as well as in London's West End performing roles in plays ranging from edgy contemporary work (several of which were written by him) to Shaw and Shakespeare. On screen he has co-starred opposite Michael Caine, Gabriel Byrne, Dame Diana Rigg, and David Suchet (amongst many others) .
Since June of 2006 he has enjoyed a continuous flow of roles. Starring in "2Graves" at the Edinburgh Festival, the play was transferred to the London West End. The performance was both critically and publically acclaimed: "a theatrical firecracker - Jonathan Moore is astonishing" (Paul Taylor, The Independent)".
This in turn was immediately followed by a guest starring role in "Midsomer Murders", one of last summer's highest rated TV thrillers. He then played the guest starring role of 'Jack Harris' in "City of Vice" on Channel 4. He went on to play Feargus O'Connor, the leader of the Chartist movement in Jack Shepard's "Holding Fire" at the Shakespeare Globe Theatre on London's South Bank. After this he played another Feargus in an independent short film "Perfect", followed by acting, writing and directing his own comedy pilot "On The Verge" with Michael Kingsbury.
He has recently completed filming "Criminal Justice" with Ben Whishaw, Pete Postlethwaite and Bill Patterson for BBC Drama, and is now currently filming a leading role in the new British movie S.N.U.B., directed by Jonathan Glendening, on location in England.
Director
An award-winning director of Stage plays, opera, film and television. He has directed several of his own plays including "Treatment" at the Donmar and Edinburgh Festival, "Street Captives" at the Gate and Edinburgh Festival, as well as "This Other Eden" at the Soho Theatre, London.
He burst onto the international opera scene with his universally acclaimed production of "Greek" (music by Mark Anthony Turnage) widely described as one of the landmarks of the Twentieth Century, for which he also co-adapted the text. The press enthusiastically described his work as "a resounding, unanimous triumph... riveting total theatre." (The Sunday Times)". Performed at the Munich Biennale, English National Opera, and Moore directed the BBC Film version, winning a Midem Award at Cannes and the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Best Film. The opera is still regularly performed around the world.
Since then Moore has gone on on to astonish, delight, astound and amuse opera audiences in Britain and throughout Europe with his "typically intense, high-octane" (The Times) world premiere productions by the world's leading contemporary composers including Schnittke, MacMillan, Nyman, Henze, Muller-Wieland, Ludovico Einaudi among many others. These were performed at a variety of the world's most prestigious opera houses with productions at the English National Opera, the Scottish Opera, Venice's famed La Fenice Opera House, Opera North, Bonn Opera, Darmstadt, Almeida Opera etc.
Recently Moore directed a "timeless and mesmerising" (The Daily Mail) production of Mozart's "Magic Flute" for Scottish Opera. A radical but loving version, it was both loved and hated by the critics, too! "This is a cracking good night of entertainment. It is big, it is bold, it is packed full of great ideas and visual gags, and it tells what is quite a complex little story very clearly." (Thom Diblin, The Evening News).
Prior to (and alongside) his opera work, Moore has also collaborated on new work with the acclaimed young Violinist Daniel Hope and The great jazz pianist Uri Caine, as well as Rock musicians Killing Joke, the late Joe Strummer, Jah Wobble, Stewart Copeland and the industrial percussionists Test Dept.
His next directorial project in the theatre will be the astonishing "The Revengers Tragedy" at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, a verse play written in 1606 by either Thomas Middleton or Cyril Tourneur. Even the play's authorship is controversial. It's a blackly comic tale of murder and revenge, rich in savage poetry, sensuality and humour.
Writer
An award winning playwright, Jonathan Moore has written nine stage plays since his play "Treatment" exploded into public consciousness at The Edinburgh Festival.
Subsequent performances have taken place at the Gate theatre, the Donmar, London, and a BBC Film version starring Moore and Gabriel Byrne. This powerful and angrily poetic play was acclaimed as "one of the most disturbing and exhilarating plays in London" (The Independent) and the arrival of a major new talent.
He has written as well for TV, film and the BBC, and several texts for contemporary opera for major British and International Opera Houses.
Moore's plays have been performed at the Donmar Gate Theatre, the Almeida (opera text), Royal Exchange, and the Edinburgh Festival.
He is the recipient of numerous commissions, including a National Theatre commission. He wrote several episodes of "Crown Court" for Granada TV, "Treatment", a BBC Film, and "Horse Opera" a Western filmed opera shot in Tucson, Arizona for Channel 4 with music by Stewart Copeland. A collection of Moore's plays has been published by Aurora Metro Press.
He has most recently finished co-writing "On The Verge", the TV comedy pilot.
