WESLEY ENOCH FOR QTC
WONDERFUL NEWS for theatre and Indigenous Australia in Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh announcing (June 25) that Wesley Enoch, a Noonuccal Nuugi man from Minjeribah (Stradbroke Island) is the new Artistic Director for the Queensland Theatre Company.
Enoch is familiar to theatres and theatre-goers in Sydney and across the country for his work at Company B Belvoir, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Black Swan, Griffin Theatre Company, Hothouse, Ilbijerri, Yirra Yaakin, Windmill, Malthouse and at festivals here and internationally.
As well as his own work – most recently The Sapphires and Parramatta Girls, both for Company B, Enoch is a well known writer and cultural leader and a member of a number of industry boards and committees including the Creative Australia Advisory Group, Ethics Council (National Congress of Australia’s First People) and a Trustee of the Sydney Opera House.
Anna B’s media release says, “Wesley has a long history of working in theatre, both as a director and a writer, starting his career in his home state of Queensland and then moving interstate to work across Australia. Over the past decade he has worked with the majority of Australia’s state theatre companies, major arts centres and festivals and in 2006 directed the Indigenous section of the Opening Ceremony for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.”
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Enoch first came to national prominence in 1995 following his collaboration with Deborah Mailman, The Seven Stages of Grieving, and he’s gone from strength to strength since. QTC Chair Kate Foy says the decision to appoint Enoch was unanimous and that he was “the standout candidate from a strong pool of national and international candidates.” He joins the company part-time from July this year as 11-year director Michael Gow prepares to exit and takes over full time early in 2011. Everyone in Sydney theatre will be wishing him well.
