Grid Iron are an Edinburgh-based theatre company who, following their incorporation in 1995 and their first show Clearance at the Traverse, Edinburgh, swiftly gained a reputation for creating high-quality, high profile shows. The Company went on to specialise in presenting shows in unusual locations. They work in challenging sites, which lend themselves especially well to Grid Iron's high-tensile production style. They have also used theatre buildings in a site-specific, promenade manner.

In 1997 Grid Iron produced their first full-scale site-specific production, The Bloody Chamber , their adaptation of Angela Carter's Bluebeard fairytale, which they presented in famously haunted underground vaults beneath Edinburgh 's historic Royal Mile. It was the company's first appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and, by the opening night, the show had sold out for it's entire three-week run. Awards: Herald Angel for Outstanding Contribution and Achievement in Theatre and Total Theatre Nominations for Best Newcomers and Best Design.

The Bloody Chamber sold out again during the two weeks surrounding Edinburgh 's Hogmanay Festival and transferred for three weeks to The London Dungeon in March 1998, signalling the company's first production outside Scotland . Once again the show sold out completely. The Bloody Chamber again received widespread public and critical acclaim in Northern Ireland during a three week run in November 98 as part of the Belfast Festival Fringe.

The company's next show, Gargantua , was devised for Edinburgh 's Fringe 98 was again an award-winning sell-out success. The press and media billed it as the hit of the Festivals and the one thing to make sure to see. Awards: Scotsman Fringe First for New Writing and a Stage Nomination for Acting Excellence - Best Ensemble.

In March 1999, Grid Iron presented Monumental by Anita Sullivan in The Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow . For this promenade performance the company used the foyers, back alleys and car parks of the theatre complex to recreate the Moscow of Revolutionary Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. It also marked the company's first return to a theatre building in 3 years. Following Monumental Grid Iron took a sabbatical period during which time the creative team consolidated artistic plans for the future.

They returned to the fray with outdoor show Decky does a Bronco by Douglas Maxwell, again a massive hit during the Fringe Festival 2000 and subsequent three-week tour of Scotland . Decky does a Bronco toured again nationally during Summer 2001, presented by the prestigious Almeida Theatre, London . With the Almeida the show visited Manchester 's Contact Theatre. Newcastle's Northern Stage, Coram's Field's in London, Oxford Playhouse, Bath Theatre Royal and Brighton's Gardner Arts Centre. The show returned to the Edinburgh Fringe as part of The British Council Showcase and toured widely in Scotland for a further three weeks. It then toured to Cork for a week with The Granary Theatre and to the Belfast Festival. Awards: Fringe First for Outstanding New Production and The Stage Award for Acting Excellence - Best Ensemble, Nominee - TMA/Barclays Stage Awards Best Touring Production.

A new interior show, Fermentation, was presented in Glasgow and Edinburgh in Jan/Feb 2002. Adapted from an erotic novella by Angelica Jacob, Fermentation is set in France during a heat wave and rubbish strike and charts the progress through pregnancy of Odissa, a writer whose craving for cheese has quite extraordinary effects on her dreams and reveries. Yet again, this was a critically acclaimed sell-out.

Grid Iron commissioned a new play, Variety, by Douglas Maxwell, which was performed in August 2002 at The King's Theatre, Edinburgh in co-production with the Edinburgh International Festival.

Grid Iron produced two new site-specific shows in 2003, The Houghmagandie Pack , a special commission for the Burns an' a' That Festival which was performed in May 2003 in Alloway, Ayrshire in co-production with Unique Events and Those Eyes, That Mouth, which was the smash hit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before touring in Scotland. Those Eyes, That Mouth won an unprecedented five awards during August: Scotsman Fringe First, Herald Angel, Herald Devil, Stage Award for Acting Excellence - Best Actress, Daily Mail Spirit of the Fringe.