Felix Barrett


Felix Barrett MBE is the founder and Artistic Director of Punchdrunk and Punchdrunk International.
In 2000, Barrett founded Punchdrunk, a British theatre company internationally recognised as pioneering ways for audiences to experience culture. In 2015, a new company was formed, Punchdrunk International, which produces a selection of Punchdrunk’s commercial productions for national and international audiences.
Barrett is a graduate and Honorary Doctorate in Drama of the University of Exeter and was one of the first recipients of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Fund Award. He was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to theatre.
Barrett is the creator and executive producer of The Third Day, a co-production between Sky Studios and HBO, in partnership with Plan B Entertainment, writer Dennis Kelly and Punchdrunk International. It will be the company's first TV production and will air in the UK and the US in 2020.