Steven Berkoff

Steven Berkoff after studying drama and mime in London and Paris, entered a series of repertory companies and in 1968 formed the London Theatre Group. His plays and adaptations have been performed in many countries and in many languages. 

Among the many adaptations Berkoff has created for the stage, directed and toured, are Kafka's Metamorphosis and The Trial, Agamemnon after Aeschylus, and Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.

As an actor, you are eventually a collector. You’ve got all these personalities – they’re like little demons, writhing around inside you.

A lifelong student of photography, Berkoff’s gift for storytelling extends behind the camera.

When I started, I got to know about printing. Somebody gave me an enlarger, my brother-in-law, and then I started to learn, and that was quite amazing to me, that I could learn and then eventually become a photographer. When I became an actor, during periods of slowness, I would take pics of fellow actors for a few pounds, five or ten pounds, give them six 10x8s, so I’ve got loads and loads of pictures of actors. I enjoyed doing that. 

He has directed and toured productions of Shakespeare's Coriolanus also playing the title role, Richard II, Hamlet and Macbeth, as well as Oscar Wilde's Salome.

It is a possibility that there are certain ingredients that go into people who feel the need to do creative acts. I think they are: the father must give you very little love; you must feel isolated; you must be uprooted; and eventually the world becomes the father and you say I'm going to impress you, no matter what. And no one will ever be able to stop me. No one.

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