About

Jack MacGregor is a director, writer and filmmaker based in the Scottish Highlands. Concluding his formal training at the University of the Highlands & Islands with a First Class BA Honours in Drama & Performance and an MRes in Creative Practice (Playwriting), Jack is now an early-career artist trying to make it work.

Jack has been a shortlisted finalist for the St. Andrews Playwright Award, a longlisted director the JMK Award, produced new work for the COP26 climate summit, and has been a residency artist with Dogstar Theatre Company and National Theatre of Scotland. Jack is motivated to write about events that are currently unfolding, or yet to fully emerge, giving his work a future-facing quality that walks between science-fiction and contemporary historical drama.

Seeking to advance popular and engaging work in theatre and film, Jack is determined to make stuff against the odds and create artistic resilience through exciting productions. His style is built on pragmatic collaboration, producing grassroots work using actors and artists local to the Highlands & Islands, portraying the many aspects of northern Scotland's contested place in the 21st century. Jack is thrilled to be contributing to a new wave of Scottish theatre and film.

Above all else, Jack values film and theatre as a means of sharing life’s experiences, for radical experiments that make us look at the world in new ways, an art that encourages understanding, exchange, and respect.

And because it’s really fun to make art.

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