Marco Calleja

Maltese-born, MARCO CALLEJA is a performer, director, producer, educator, and TV host. He graduated with an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London in 2017.

In Malta, he has worked with various companies on several plays, pantomimes, musicals and ballets. He also set up his theatre company, Hoi Polloi Theatre Company in 2004. He then branched out into performing arts education by setting up the Hoi Polloi Academy in 2013.

In 2016, he moved to London to read for an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and graduated in 2017. This fuelled Marco’s passion for theatre-devising, movement and interdisciplinary work. He is greatly interested in re-visiting existing work through a new contemporary lens and in creating new theatre-work which critiques and questions current issues whilst engaging and moving its audiences.

Having an undergraduate degree in the life sciences, Marco is also interested in exploring how the arts and the sciences can cross-over and inform each other – a pretty ‘explosive’ and exciting combination.

 

Directing credits include;

• CATS – the musical (Hoi Polloi Theatre Compan, VCT, 2019), 

• The Wizard of Oz–panto (MADC< MFCC, 2012), 

• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, MCC, 2011),

• This Thing Called Love (Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, Teatru Manoel, 2006).

Performing credits include: Astarita in Manwel Dimech (Teatru Malta, 2021), Nosferatu (Three Palaces Festival, 2020), The Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (MCC, 2018), Amadeus (Teatru Manoel, 2018), Mamma Mia (MCC, 2018), Little John in Robin Hood – the panto (Teatru Manoel, 2015).


Performing credits include: 

• Mr Meaney in Cikku and the Chocolate Panto (Masquerade, Teatru Manoel, 2022),  

• Hannah from Hamburg in La Cage aux Folles (FM Theatre Productions, Teatru Manoel, 2022), 

• Salvu Astarita in Il-Qfil u l-Ħelsien skond Manwel Dimech (Teatru Malta, Korradino Old Miltary Prison, 2021)

• The Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (JCDC, MCC, 2018), 

• Amadeus (Masquerade, Teatru Manoel, 2018), 

• Mamma Mia (FM Theatre Productions,MCC, 2018), 

• Little John in Robin Hood – the panto (FM Theatre Productions, Teatru Manoel, 2015), 

• Fiddler on the Roof (FM Theatre Productions, Teatru Manoel, 2014) 

• And Paris in Romeo & Juliet (Teatru Enkor, Saint James Cavalier, 2012). 

Television credits include: 

• Daniel in Santa Monika, 

• Bazzati in Deheb il-Karta and It-Tmien Nota. 

• Between 2020 and 2022, Marco was the executive producer and one of the hosts of the day-time TV programme #KikkraTe. 

• He also produced Il-Klikka – The Third Season and the magazine programme FUQ NET in 2017.

In London, Marco performed; 

• Lady Macbeth in Shaking Up Shakespeare,  

• the Wolf in BBC’s production of The Girl who Fell in Love with the Wolf, 

• Mal Tease in Maquillage 

• and is a founding member of The Brainstorm Ensemble.

When not on stage, or in the rehearsal studio, Marco is watching movies, reading novels, telling stories, swimming, and wandering around chasing sunsets.