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 International Arts Festival and the Perth International Arts Festival.