Jack Paterson

Jack is an award-winning director, divisor, dramaturge, translator, actor and producer whose work and study has taken across Canada, The United Kingdom and around the world. His work has ranged from contemporary devising, cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary projects to main stage and classical theatre. He has trained at leading international theatrical institutions including Circle in the Square (NYC, USA), GITIS The University of Performing Arts (Moscow, RU), SENI Indonesian Institute of the Arts (Bali, INA) and received his Masters in Fine Arts from the renown East 15 Acting School (London, UK). He is currently the Co- Artistic Producer of BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective. Shows under his direction have garnered over thirty theatre award nominations with many wins including “Outstanding Production”. He is a recipient of The Ray Michal Outstanding Body of Work Award, The Cole Foundation Award for Emerging Translators, and The John Moffat & Larry Lillo Award for Outstanding West Coast Artist.

www.JackPatersonTheatre.com

Personal Pronoun: He / Him/ His

Credits

DIRECTOR/ DRAMATURG: New Translation Workshop Series: Western Gold, Barbed Wire (Quebec), British Equity WSW London Office & BTC, 1 week, 2020

COLLABORATIVE DIRECTOR & CO PRODUCER: Medusa Project UK (remount), The Cockpit Theatre), Fussion Theatre and Global Hive Labs., 2 weeks, 2020

CO-CREATOR & CO PRODUCER: Active Access Creation, Atlantide , Teatro Trieste 34 and Global Hive Labs. (Piacenza, Italy), 2020

DIRECTOR, Community Devised Creation Lab.: Enemy of the People - After Ibsen, United Players (Vancouver, CAN), 6 weeks, 2019

DIRECOR/ CREATOR, Balinese Traditional Practice/ Western Creation: East meets West , SENI (Denpasar, IND), 4 weeks, 2019

TRANSLAOR, New Translation Development Workshop: Naughty Children’s Bedtime Stories, British Equity London Office & BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (London, UK), 1 week, 2019

DRAMATURG, New Translation Development Workshop: From Alaska, British Equity London Office & BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (London, UK), 1 week, 2019

CREATIVE DRAMATURG, Medusa Project USA (Steppenwolf Theatre), Global Hive Laboratories (Chicago, USA), 3 weeks, 2019

DIRECOR/ TRANSLATOR, Staged Reading: The Naughty Children’s Bedtime Stories, PHT Digital Strategy for TYA Conference (Vancouver, CAN), 1 week, 2019

SPEAKER, Translation/ Cross Cultural Panel, Jamais Lu Festival (Montreal, CAN), 1 week, 2019

DIRECTOR, New Works: Sex Between Men in the 21st Century, Theare503 (London, UK), 1 week, 2019

SPEAKER, Canadian Theatre Practices, Flausen Kongress (Cologne, EU), 1 week, 2019

DRAMATURG, Disability Arts/ Creation Workshop 2: The Cowboy Tempest, Niall McNeill (Vancouver, CAN), 2 weeks, 2019

SELECTION COMMITTEE READER, Theatre503 Playwrights Award, Theatre503 (London, UK), 2019

DRAMATURG, Disability Arts/ Creation Workshop: The Cowboy Tempest, Niall McNeill (Vancouver, CAN), 2 weeks, 2018

DIRECTOR/ TRANSLATOR, Staged Reading/ Translation: Nous voir nous, Theatre Stages Co. & BoucheWHACKED! (London, UK), 1 week, 2018

TRANSLATOR, Translation Workshop: KIWI, Playwrights Workshop Montreal (Montreal, CAN), 1 week, 2018

WORKSHOP LEADER, The Role of the Actor in New Works and Creation, British Equity London Office (London, UK), 1 week, 2018

DIRECTOR, Youth Creation/ New Musical: Blast Off!, (Ages 9-12), The Richmond Gateway Theatre Academy (Richmond, CAN), 1 Week, 2018

DIRECTOR, New Works/ 503 Playwright Development: For Love, Old Diorama Arts Centre & The Cockpit Theatre (London, UK), 2 Weeks, 201

DRAMATURG, New Works Development Workshop: Blazed, Theatre503 Lit. Department & British Equity (London, UK), 1 week, 2017

DRAMATURG, New Works Development Workshop: The Flood, Theatre503 Lit. Department & British Equity (London, UK), 1 week, 2017

CURATOR, Rapid Write Response: New Play Development, Theatre503 (London, UK), 1 week, 2017

DRAMATURG/ DIRECTOR, New Works Workshop: The Glory Road, Theare503 Lit. Department Playwright Development & ALRA (London, UK), 1 Week, 2017

DIRECTOR, New Works: Keep Him Here, Theare503 Lit. Department Playwright Development (London, UK), 1 week, 2017

WORKSHOP LEADER, Global Hive Laboratories: Towards a Global Theatre, BoucheWHACKED! (UK, CAN, USA, EU), 2 weeks, 2017

DIRECTOR, Youth New Musical: Mission: Possible (Ages 9-12), The Richmond Gateway Theatre Academy (Richmond, CAN), 2 weeks, 2017

DIRECTOR, Main Stage: Walt Whitman’s Secret*, a frank theatre company (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2016

DIRECTOR, Main Stage: Romeo and Juliet, Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festival (Cardiff, UK), 3 weeks, 2016

DIRECTOR, Main Stage: The Lion in Winter, United Players (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2016

DIRECTOR, New Work: Playground, Goldsmiths’ University of London: Playwright PHD Project (London, UK), 2 weeks, 2016

DIRECTOR, Main Stage: The List (remount), Ruby Slippers Theatre & The Richmond Gateway Theatre (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2016

DIRECTOR/ DRAMATURG, Mandarin/ English New Musical: 再见 GOODBYE, Goldsmiths’ University & The Confucius Institute (London, UK), 2 weeks, 2015

DIRECTOR, New Work: Servants, Goldsmiths’ University of London: Playwright PHD Project (London, UK), 2 weeks, 2015

DIRECTOR, Stage Reading: Age of Minority: 3 Solo Plays by Jordan Tannahill, The National Arts Centre (Ottawa, CAN), 1 week, 2015

DIRECTOR, Main Stage: The List, Ruby Slippers Theatre (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2015

TRANSLATOR, Translation Workshop: Nous voir nous, BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN), 2015

DIRECTOR/ CREATOR, International Devised Creation: Odyssey, The Corbett Theatre (London, UK), 2 weeks, 2014

DIRECTOR, New Musical: Dream, Goldsmiths’ University of London: Playwrights MA Projects (London, UK), 2 weeks, 2014

DIRECTOR, New Works: The Ruth Ellis Show, Goldsmiths’ University of London: Playwright PHD Project (London, UK), 2 weeks, 2014

DIRECOR/ CREATOR, Cross Cultural: Wasting Time, The Indonesian Institute for the Performing Arts, Denpasar (Bali, Indonesia), 1 week, 2014

DIRECTOR, Main Stage: The Pitmen Painters, United Players (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2014

DIRECTOR/ DRAMATURG, Devised Creation Workshop: The Loom, YouandI Theatre (London, UK/ Vancouver, CAN), 2 weeks, 2013

DIRECTOR, The List (Instillation), BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2012

DIRECTOR, Howl Red, (Staged Reading), BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN), 1 week, 2012

DIRECTOR, Encore (Staged Reading), BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN), 1 week, 2012

DIRECTOR, DRAMATURG, Unstuck (Staged Reading), Foundry Theatre (Toronto, CAN), 1 week, 2011

PRODUCTION DRAMAURG, Macbeth nach Shakespeare, Theatre Conspiracy (Vancouver, CAN), 2011

DIRECTOR, New works: Wet, Workhorse Theatre (Toronto, CAN), 3 weeks, 2010

DIRECTOR, The Centre of Everything Civilized, Winterbird Arts (Toronto, CAN), 3 weeks, 2010

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, The Women of Troy, Canadian Stage: Festival of Ideas (Toronto, CAN), 2010

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Champ de Mars, Imago Theatre/ Micheline Chevrier (Montreal, CAN), 3 weeks, 2010

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Don Quixote, Arts Club Theatre & The Centaur Theatre / Roy Surette (Montreal & Vancouver, CAN), 2010

DIRECTOR, The Love of Don Perlimplin for Bellisa in his Garden, The Shaw Festival (Niagara on the Lake, CAN), 2 weeks, 2009

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Canterville Ghost workshop, The Shaw Festival/ Jackie Maxwell (Niagara on the Lake, CAN), 1 week, 2009

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Devil’s Disciple, The Shaw Festival/ Tadeusz Bradecki (Niagara on the Lake, CAN), 3 months, 2009

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, In Good King Charles’s Golden Days, The Shaw Festival/ Eda Holmes (Niagara on the Lake, CAN), 3 months, 2009

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, Coriolanus*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2008

DIRECTOR, The Hobbit, Carousel Theatre (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2008

DIRECTOR, Hosanna, The Waterfront Theatre (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2008

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Amorous Adventures of Anatol, The Vancouver Playhouse/Morris Panych (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2008

DIRECTOR, A Moon for the Misbegotten, United Players (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2007

DIRECTOR, Out Like Flynn, Fugue Free Theatre (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2007

DIRECTOR, The Odyssey*, Carousel Theatre (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2007

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, Shakespeare’s R&J*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2006

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, Titus Andronicus*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2006

DIRECTOR, Banana Boys, Firehall Arts Center (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2006

DIRECTOR, Suicide Corporation (Staged Reading), Firehall Arts Centre: BC Buds (Vancouver, CAN), 1 week, 2006

DIRECTOR, Queen of the Amazons (Staged Reading), Firehall Arts Centre: BC Buds (Vancouver, CAN), 1 week, 2006

DIRECTOR, Selling Radio (Staged Reading), Construction Inc. (Vancouver, CAN), 1 week, 2006

DIRECTOR, The Unbreakable Popsicle Stick Gang, One Crazy French Man Pro. (Vancouver, CAN), 1 week, 2006

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, Julius Caesar*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2005

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, The Tempest*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2004

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, Henry IV Parts 2 & 3, Savage God: The Bardathon (Vancouver, CAN), 1 week, 2004

DIRECTOR, The Real Inspector Hound, The Presentation House Theatre (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2003

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN), 3 weeks, 2003

DIRECTOR, Not About Nightingales (Staged Reading), Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN), 1 week, 2002

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, Macbeth, Square Pegs Theatre (NYC, USA), 2 weeks, 2000

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, The Tempest (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA), 1 week, 2000

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, Merchant of Venice (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA) , 1 week, 2000

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA), 1 week, 2000

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, The Winter’s Tale (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA) , 1 week, 2000

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, Loves Labor’s Lost (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA) , 1 week, 2000

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, As You Like It (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA) , 1 week, 2000

DIRECTOR/ ADAPTOR, Measure for Measure (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA) , 1 week, 2000

Training

MFA in Theatre Direction, 2012 - 2015
East 15 Acting School and The University of Essex, London, UK

International Exchange Residencies included:
Stanislavsky System and Biomechanics
The Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS), Moscow, RU

Balinese Traditional Performing Arts
The Indonesian Arts Institute Denpasar, (SENI) Bali, IND

Diploma (BA Equivalence), 1996 - 1999

Circle in the Square Theatre School, NYC, NY, U.S.A.

Professional Development Residencies and Workshops
have included:
Theatre Wrede+: Flausen Innovation Practice (Oldenburg, Germany), 2019
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: Directors’ Studio (London, UK), 2017
The Young Vic Theatre: Directors’ Network (London, UK), 2016 -
Theatre503 (London, UK), 2016
Canada’s Magnetic North Festival (Calgary and Ottawa, CAN), 2012
Theatre Conspiracy (Vancouver, CAN), 2012
Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal (Montreal, CAN), 2011
Imago Theatre (Montreal, CAN), 2010
The Canadian Opera Company (Toronto, CAN), 2010
Directors’ Lab North (Toronto, CAN), 2010
Canadian Stage: BASH (Toronto, CAN), 2010
The Centaur Theatre (Montreal, CAN), 2009
The Shaw Festival: Directors’ Project (Niagara on the Lake, CAN), 2009