Ian Magilton
Member of the Board of Directors
Actor, director, light and scenery designer, and voice teacher, Ian Magilton is a resident member of the Roy Hart Centre community at Malérargues. A founder member of the Roy Hart Theatre, he was one of the “First 49” to travel from London to Malérargues in 1974.
Ian graduated with a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Chelsea School of Art, before meeting Roy Hart and those with whom they founded the Roy Hart Theatre in 1969.
Ian is the recipient of an O.B.I.E. award for Pagliacci at La Mama, New York (1985); the Prix Jean Vilar for Moby Dick at the Printemps des comédiens festival, Montpellier (1988), and a Best Supporting Actor award for And Mary Wept, Duke University Institute Of The Arts, Durham, North Carolina (2003).
He has, over the past fifty years, worked onsite in Malérargues as a builder, painter, plasterer, gardener, teacher, performer, director, newsletter editor, and member of the board of directors. He is Co-Director of SCI Fondation de Malérargues, and a co-founder of the Malérargues Endowment Fund.
In recent years Ian has led the annual Springterns programme gathering volunteer teams to build, paint, plant, and sing their way to ensuring Malérargues is a more beautiful and welcoming place to be.
In 2016 his book “Roy Hart Theatre at Malérargues” was published.
In 2024 Ian helped orchestrate the Jubilee festival in Malérargues in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Roy Hart Theatre in Malérargues. He is currently Directing Agamemnon for ADAS Teater, Gothenburg, Sweden and Handal’s opera Acis & Galatea for Compagnie imagi_nation at Malérargues..
Ian has been a Roy Hart Voice Teacher since 1973 and has served as both President and Treasurer of the Board of Directors over the years. After an absence of several years Ian was re-elected to the Board of Directors in November 2024.
Contact: ian.magilton@centreroyhart.org