Artistic Director

Patrick has been working as a director for over twenty years. In that time he has created numerous new Australian works, that have been performed in festivals, opera houses, theatres, showgrounds, city streets and car parks.  He’s had the privilege to work with highly skilled performers, horses, opera singers from across the globe, pipers, Lord Mayors, and a hundred school children dressed as the animals on Noah’s ark. As a theatre maker he is driven by a process in which a performer explores the extreme of their capacity to find a way of expressing an idea, a feeling, a sound, that takes the audience to a place of enquiry and perhaps, understanding.

In this time some of the productions he has directed include: A Flowering Tree by John Adams, Electric Lenin by Barry Conygham, Love in the Age of Therapy by Paul Grabowsky, Pelleas et Melisande by Debussy, Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, La Boheme by Puccini, Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, Cosi fan tutte and The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, an adaptation of Tales from the Arabian Nights, bash by Neil Labute, Malade Imaginaire by Moliere, Twelfth Night and Macbeth by Shakespeare. Companies he has directed for include: Opera Australia, New Zealand Opera, Sydney Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Music Festival, Sydney Festival, Melbourne...

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General Manager

Grant O’Neill is a widely experienced arts manager who has worked in management, marketing and operations with a range of arts organisations in Australia and New Zealand.

He has worked for the Perth Festival as Marketing Manager, for the Darwin, Taranaki, Christchurch and New Zealand Festivals in a range of capacities (including marketing the Edinburgh Military Tattoo), and for Sydney Dance Company as Operations Manager. He has also worked for English National Ballet (Angelina Ballerina 2009/10 Australian tour), NZ Actors Company (General Manager) Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings Wrap Party director), NZ String Quartet (Acting Manager) and Te Papa Tongarewa/Museum of NZ (Versace exhibition launch director).

Artistic Associate

Simone O’Brien is a performer, writer, director and teacher of circus and physical theatre and currently is the Artistic Associate for Legs On The Wall, one of Australia’s leading physical theatre companies. She is currently a committee member of the Australian Circus and Physical Theatre Association.

Previously, Simone has enjoyed working with Circus Oz, ABC Kids TV, Club Swing, Stalker Stilt Theatre, The Women’s Circus in Melbourne, Bibi Bulak in East Timor and The National Institute of Circus Arts, Swinburne University.

In this time, Simone has enjoyed the role of aerialist, clown, singing child monkey, rock ‘n roll wrestler, lizard, stunt woman, human candelabra, beat poet with a chronic jazz dysfunction and a “Vehicular Theatre Consultant”, known as Sera Tonin.

Operations Manager

Bringing together ten years of rigging experience, Industrial Rope Access, fifteen years experience in the Building Industry and ten years experience in the Entertainment Industry, a wide range of contacts from suppliers of access machinery to rigging equipment and a detailed knowledge of the latest equipment and Industry Regulations, Jon Blake has worked for such companies as Pollard Productions, Tripoint Rigging, Circus Oz, Cirque Du Soliel, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney Dance Company, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Opera Company and Sydney Festival to name a few.

Jon is currently running SpiderMonkey Constructions, a business supplying rigging and construction services to a range of industries and companies in the Sydney region and has also been engaged by Legs on the Wall as Senior Head Rigger. 

Administration and Venue Coordinator

Lex joined the Legs on the Wall team in January 2008. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Communication (Media Arts and Production) from the University of Technology Sydney in 2004.

Lex brings passion, energy and an assortment of useful office skills to Legs on the Wall. She has always been a keen theatre goer and is now proud to be a keen theatre contributor.

Financial Coordinator

James is a Chartered Accountant and Registered Tax Agent with more than 10 years local accounting and taxation experience.  He joined Legs on the Wall in September 2008.  Since 1995, he has worked for many small to large organisations as a professional accountant, including Auckland Healthcare Services Ltd, Pitcher Partners Pty Ltd, Regional Arts NSW, and Community Cultural Development NSW.  He also gained a Master of Commerce (Honours) from the University of Sydney, majoring in accounting and taxation.