Jack Paterson

Who is Jack Paterson?

Jack Paterson is a Canadian director, dramaturg, actor and theatre creator who works across the country. Favourite credits include directing the instillation of The List, the site specific The Women of Troy and F. Garcia Lorca’s The Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa; production dramaturgy on the English language premiere of H. Muller’s Mabeth: nach Shakespeare; and playing Hitler and Walt Disney in The Blue Light and Scheffler in The Ugly One.

He is the founder of multi-award winning Mad Duck Theatre Collective for whom he adapted and directed Coriolanus, the Vancouver premieres of Shakespeare’s R&J and Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar and Vancouver’s first female Prospero in The Tempest. Other directing credits include The Hobbit and The Odyssey and Banana Boys. A graduate of Circle in the Square, he has performed with The Arts Club, Chemainus Theatre and as a regular performer in Savage God’s The Shakespeare Projects.

Jack was recently completed a series of Artistic Director Residencies with the mandate of Three Provinces, Three Companies and Three Mandates with Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, Theatre Conspiracy and The Magnetic North Theatre Festival. He is currently the Co- Artistic Producer of BoucheWHACKED!, the West Coast Ambassador for Playwrights Workshop Montreal and an Associate Artist with Theatre Conspiracy. His work has been nominated for over twenty Jessie Richardson Awards including four for Outstanding Direction and two for Outstanding Production. He is the recipient of the The Ray Michal Outstanding Body of Work by an Emerging Director Award.