Harry Ross is multidisciplinary artist, writer, and producer working across opera, public realm projects, and socially engaged performance. He collaborates with Dai Fujikura as librettist and lyricist (A Dream of Armageddon, The Great Wave) and has directed or produced work for ROH2, Spoleto Festival (Italy), Shakespeare’s Globe, The British Council, The National Archives, and National Trust. He was the founding producer of Secret Cinema’s immersive theatrical experiences, and produced RPS award winning London Contemporary Orchestra’s site-responsive concerts.
From 2021-24 he led the British Army’s Art and Engagement programme in Scotland, earning a Fringe First and the Scottish Arts Club Award for best Scottish Production. He currently serves in the British Army Reserve as a Specialist Advisor in creative production. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Veterans and Families Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, Visiting Lecturer at Moray School of Art, University of the Highlands and Islands and Expert in Residence at the Practitioners Hub of The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.
Harry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Society of Scottish Antiquaries, Royal Society for Public Health and Member of the British Computer Society. He volunteers as a member of the City of Edinburgh’s Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Implementation Group and sings in his local parish church choir. He runs the creative studio O’NeillRoss & Associates from Glasgow with his wife Helen; and he has three grown-up children: Charlie who is an artist, Eugenia who is studying environmental geoscience and Theo who is studying music and filmmaking. He is proud to have followed in the footsteps of his parents Rowan, a retired headteacher and Ian, a retired Army officer, by contributing to both education and defence while maintaining his career as a creative artist.