Minnie Crook (she/her) is a performance artist and maker based in Glasgow. Her work is highly visual, immersive and experimental, engaging audiences through theatre, live art, facilitation and social practices. Often collaborating with both artists and non-artists alike, her work is rooted in autobiography and personal history, drawing from lived experiences to create compelling and thought-provoking pieces that challenge perceptions of the world around her.
Her work And When I Remember That I Have Forgotten is a celebratory dive into the collective infatuation we have with memory and the past. Set against the projected backdrop of her parents wedding reception at the Irish Club in Leamington Spa, Minnie (in role as The Host) invites audiences to experience this nostalgic familial gathering and take part in the beloved sing-song. This show was originally showcased at Glasgow's Into The New Festival 2020 and 2021, and has since been programmed at Coventry's biennial SHOOT Festival 2022.
She is a regular collaborator with 21Common; performing in Common is as Common Does: A Memoir at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2024, Project Managing their Disruptive Pedagogy projects; and has also been commissioned as lead artist on their school programmes.
Minnie frequently works with young people as a facilitator for companies both locally and nationally, including Imagine That Performing Arts, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Reconnect Regal, Imaginate and Playbox Theatre.