Joint Artistic Director

Laura McDermott has been Joint Artistic Director of Fierce with Harun Morrison since Autumn 2009.  Previously Laura worked as a creative producer at BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) and Greenwich + Docklands International Festivals.  Laura has extensive experience of producing work in found, unusual, or outdoor spaces. Laura was the lead producer for the Punchdrunk and BAC Production, The Masque of the Red Death, a site-responsive work staged across all 71 rooms of BAC’s premises (a former Victorian town hall), listed by Lyn Gardner as one of nine ‘productions that transformed theatre’ in The Guardian in April 2009.

Laura has also worked as a creative programmer and project manager at music festivals, including Glastonbury and the vinspired Lake of Stars festival in Malawi.

Laura enjoys cycling fast, traveling slowly by train, collecting unique or extreme experiences, wide circumference dancing, noisy music, eccentricity, laughter and ideas.