John Harrigan

John Harrigan is a British film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and occultist. He is the founder and Artistic Director of FoolishPeople, a theatre and production collective and co-founder of the Weaponized Imprint.

Harrigan's feature debut Strange Factories, shot in Czech Republic, is due to be released in 2013.

Career
Harrigan's work centres around the creation of film, ritual theatre and immersive events which aim to raise a numinous experience within the witness. He founded FoolishPeople in 1989, taking its name from The Fool major arcana of the tarot. FoolishPeople specialises in original site-specific and immersive theatre, as well as independent film and books.

Over a number of years, Harrigan developed a unique form of theatre practice, Theatre of Manifestation. Combining ritual, mythology, shamanism, drama therapy, strategic forecasting and open source collaboration in the creation of FoolishPeople's work. Each work takes form by merging text, performance, sound, art, light and the building itself to create a unique, dreamlike world that living characters inhabit.

In January 2006, John Harrigan was the first person to be presented with the "Magi of Trygonia" Award for FoolishPeople's Dark Nights of the Soul, Anthology of plays which were performed during a thirteen month residency at The Horse Hospital, Londons centre of the avant garde. It was awarded by the Dionysian Underground, a anti hierarchical, initiatory association of Bacchic Adepts, Ariadnan Shamans and Orphic Illuminati, dedicated to the transformation of self and society.

His scripts have been commissioned and presented at such venues as the Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Horse Hospital, the Arcola Theatre.

Film
2013 Writer and Director - Strange Factories - Victor

Theatre Productions
2012 Writer and Director - Virulent Experience – in partnership with Conway Hall Ethical Society

2010 Co-Writer and Director - The Basement - Ward 12 – in partnership with Secret Cinema

2010 Writer and Director - A Red Threatening Sky

2009 Writer and Director - The Abattoir Pages – presented with Guerilla Zoo

2009 Writer and Director - Cirxus

2008 Writer and Director - Terra:Extremitas

2007 Writer and Director - Dead Language

2007 Writer and Director - Desecration

2007 Writer and Director - Weaponised Art 3.0 - Lazy Gramaphone

2007 Writer and Director - Terra-Incognita - 491 Gallery

2006 Writer and Director - Dark Nights of the Soul: Cycle VI - Carousel The Horse Hospital

2006 Writer and Directer - Dark Nights of the Soul: Cycle V - Home - The Horse Hospital

2006 Writer and Director - Weaponised Art 2.0 - Guerrilla Zoo - Corisca Studios

2006 Writer and Director - Weaponised Art 1.0 - Guerrilla Zoo - Corsica Studios

2006 Writer and Director - Dark Nights of the Soul: Cycle IV - Congealed - The Horse Hospital

2006 Writer and Director - Dark Nights of the Soul: Cycle III - Emergence - The Horse Hospital

2006 Writer and Director - Dark Nights of the Soul: Cycle II - The Fluid Flesh - The Horse Hospital

2005 Writer and Director - Dark Nights of the Soul: Cycle I - The Wyrm Shroud - The Horse Hospital

2005 Writer and Director - Dr. Bleach - Centre for Fortean Zoology - Weird Weekend

2004 Writer and Director - Ruined Steel - Camden People's Theatre

2003 Writer - Past the Line, Between the Land - Camden People's Theatre

2002 Writer and Director - The Singularity - Camden People's Theatre

1994 Writer and Director - Revelations; Fear The Mind - North Herts College - Letchworth

1991 Writer and Director - Enochian; Language of Angels - North Herts College - Hitchin

Published Scripts
2011 CITIZEN Y - with James Curcio - Weaponized

2010 Dead Language - Weaponized

2010 Cirxus - Weaponized

Interviews
2011 Wired UK: Interview with John Harrigan "Strange Factories offers up 'subscription of experiences' to fan-funders" by Alice Vincent

2011 Blogtalkradio: Interview John Harrigan, Founder of FoolishPeople by Nancy Wait

2008 Technoccult: Interview with John Harrigan of Foolish People by Klint Finley

2007 Culture Compass: Exclusive : John Harrigan Interview by Loma-Ann Marks

2006 Oracle Occult Magazine: Dark Nights of The Soul: Interview with John Harrigan