Christopher Akrill

For the National:

Training

Christopher Akrill trained at Northern Ballet School.

Theatre

Christopher Akrill is Co-Artistic Director of award-winning company HeadSpaceDance.

For the National: Hex (performer), Home, I’m Darling (assistant choreographer)

Other theatre and dance: To Kill a Mockingbird (Boo Radley) at Regent’s Park and the Barbican; Dr Dee at ENO; Waiting for Godot (Lucky) at BeMe theatre; The Hairy Ape at the Old Vic; The Expected for Rough Fiction; The Odyssey at Wilton’s Music Hall; The White Bike at The Space; The Most Incredible Thing at Sadler’s Wells; Stepmother/Stepfather and While You Are Here at The Place; Pinocchio (title role), Ghosts (Captain Alving), Three and Four Quarters, If Play Is Play and The Canticles at the Royal Opera House; Mats Ek’s Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried) at Cullberg Ballet; A Christmas Carol (Ebenezer Scrooge) and Romeo and Juliet at Northern Ballet Theatre; and Cabaret and The Wind in the Willows (Badger) in the West End. He has danced with Cullberg Ballet, Northern Ballet Theatre and Scottish Ballet, Düsseldorf and Hannover Balle; and, as choreographer, Mametz at National Theatre Wales and Imogen at Shakespeare’s Globe.

TV

Lucky Man (season 3), Taboo, Mr Selfridge, Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol

Film

Romeo and Juliet, Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick, The Corridor, Little Grey Fergie, Abandon, London Road, Muppets Most Wanted.

Awards

Christer Holgersons Award

Riksteatern Award for Artistic Contributions and Excellence in Dance.

(Published December 2021)