The Madras College Archive

Former Pupil Biographies

Brian Logan (- current)

Brian Logan is comedy critic for the Guardian Newspaper and is also artistic director for Camden People's Theatre since 2011. He was assistant theatre editor for Time Out London previously. He was a pupil at Madras College in the late 1980s and acted in a number of school drama productions including Oh What a Lovely War, As You Like It and The Royal Pardon. He was also involved in public speaking and debating competitions. He left school from sixth year in 1991 and studied in London University. On graduating he had a work experience placement with the Guardian and never left.

Life events include:

Sixteen years as co-director (with Alex Murdoch and Neil Haigh) of the acclaimed touring theatre company Cartoon de Salvo with whom he devised and performed in 11 major shows including:

· Meat & Two Veg (BAC and international tour)

· The Sunflower Plot

· Hard Hearted Hannah and Other Stories (Lyric Hammersmith, Edinburgh Fringe and Kennedy Center, Washington DC)

· Made Up (Soho Theatre, 2012)

· Pub Rock

Brian’s play David Hume’s Kilt was developed at the National Theatre of Scotland and semi-staged at the Traverse, Edinburgh in 2009; its follow-up The Keys to the Universe was also the runner-up for the Robert McLellan Award.

In 2016, he toured with Will Adamsdale and Lloyd Hutchinson in Fuel Theatre’s The Joke

Brian co-created and directed This Is Private Property (2016), Fog Everywhere (2017) and Human Jam (2019) with Camden People's Theatre.

He co-hosts a comedy-focussed podcast called But is it Funny?

In 2024 he was appointed as Artistic Director of ‘A Play, a Pie and a Pint’ in Glasgow.