Andrew Steggal, born in Wiltshire, England, trained as an actor at London's Central School Of Speech and Drama. Amongst other stage and screen appearances, he starred in Stephen Daldry's An Inspector Calls in the West End. He later turned his work to theatre directing with a production of Over Gardens Out at the Southwark Playhouse. Steggall directed L'Histoire du Soldat by Stravinsky at the Old Vic Theatre with Jeremy Irons and the Philharmonia Orchestra and in a second production with Julian Glover and actors and musicians from Baghdad. This production was workshopped by Andrew in Baghdad during the occupation in 2005 and later in Kurdistan. He staged La Tragedie de Carmen in Ireland and London and The Lighthouse by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in Montepulciano, Italy.
Steggall has written and directed four short films. His first one, To the Marriage of True Minds, about two young Iraqi men in London, premiered at the Milan Film Festival and won entry into over 40 film festivals worldwide. It was nominated for the Iris prize in Cardiff and won the Goethe Institute prize at the Zebra poetry film festival in Berlin. His second short, Sparrow, captured the fragility of an old man and his death. His third film The Red Bike, a tender gay coming of age story, was awarded funding through Film London's Borough Scheme and premiered at the London Film Festival. It won the Iris UK Best Short film prize at Cardiff in 2011. Steggall's most recent short, The Door, an adaptation of an HG Wells short story starring Charles Dance, premiered in Official Selection at the Warsaw Film Festival in October 2012.
Göteborg Film Festival
