Jeremy Weller has devoted his life to social action and investigation through performance. He is perhaps best known as the Artistic Director of the innovative and influential GrassMarket Project (GMP) theatre company. Weller’s vision integrates issues of social exclusion and social justice into the artistic process and seeks to improve peoples lives through engaging them in their own potential for creativity.
For more than 20 years Jeremy the GMP have used Radical Drama as a social intervention process. Jeremy is at the heart of GMP’s drama-based art and social-healing methods, and recognizes that so-called ordinary lives can have the power of Greek tragedy.
Honors & Awards
The Robert Prize
(Danish Film Academy – March 2010)
Best full-length drama: Limboland
Scotsman Fringe First
(The Scotsman newspaper, Edinburgh – August 1998)
Outstanding new writing award for theatre production: Soldiers
Scotsman Fringe First
(The Scotsman newspaper, Edinburgh – August 1995)
Outstanding new writing award for theatre production:20-52
Scotsman Fringe First
(The Scotsman newspaper, Edinburgh – August 1993)
Outstanding new writing award for theatre production: One Moment
Golden Rose
(Munich Critics Prize – May 1993)
Best theatre production: Mad
Scotsman Fringe First
(The Scotsman newspaper, Edinburgh – August 1991)
Outstanding new writing award for theatre production: Bad
Scotsman Fringe First
(The Scotsman newspaper, Edinburgh – August 1990)
Outstanding new writing award for theatre production: Glad
