Harry McCarthy

Harry is a performer and activist from Essex who holds an MSci in Physics from Imperial College London.

As a teenager, they performed with the British Theatre Academy in Annie Jr. and in The Secret Garden: Spring Version at the Ambassadors Theatre. Since then, he has been involved in various revues and musicals with Imperial College’s Musical Theatre Society. Credits include Danny Zuko in Grease, Claude in Hair and The Collector in The Final Heist – an original musical at the Camden Fringe. In 2024, he directed their production Big Fish.

They are particularly interested in theatre which encourages meaningful conversation and sparks positive change. He envisions a world in which queerness and gender identity is explored with greater truth and integrity on our stages.

Harry is the recipient of The Thelma Jean Swaine-Holmes Award at the Royal Academy of Music.

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