Simon McBurney studied at Cambridge and trained in Paris. Co-founder and Artistic Director of Complicite with whom he has devised, directed and acted in over 30 Complicite productions and has collaborated on diverse projects including The Vertical Line for Artangel with John Berger in the Aldwych Tube, French and Saunders Live in 2000, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in New York with Al Pacino in the title role, and Lenny Henry\'s West End debut, So Much Things To Say. For Complicite he most recently directed A Disappearing Number at the Barbican, Measure for Measure and A Minute Too Late at the National Theatre, Strange Poetry (created for the Los Angeles Philarmonic Orchestra in LA), and The Elephant Vanishes (co-produced with Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo). As an actor Simon has performed extensively for theatre, radio, film and TV. Feature films include Sleepy Hollow, Kafka, Tom and Viv, Being Human, Cousin Bette, Onegin, Morality Play, Bright Young Things, The Human Touch, The Reckoning, and most recently The Manchurian Candidate, Friends with Money and The Last King of Scotland.