Wesley Enoch

Wesley James Enoch AM (born 1969) is an Australian playwright and artistic director.

Personal life

Enoch grew up in Brisbane.[1][2] He has four siblings and is the younger brother of Queensland government minister Leeanne Enoch.[3]

Enoch received a Bachelor of Arts (drama) degree at Queensland University of Technology.

Enoch is the domestic partner of Artistic Director of Australian Ballet David McAllister.[4]

Career

From 1994 to 1997, Enoch was artistic director at Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts and then served a term from 2000-2001 as resident director at Sydney Theatre Company. From 2003 to 2006, he was artistic director at Ilbijerri Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Theatre Co-operative. In 2002, Enoch was the recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts Cité International des Arts residency in Paris. His The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table won the 2005 Patrick White Playwrights' Award.[5]

From 2006 to 2008, Enoch was associate artistic director at Belvoir Street Theatre. On 24 June 2010, Enoch was announced to be the new artistic director of the Queensland Theatre Company.[6]

Enoch has been artistic director of Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts, an associate artist with the Queensland Theatre Company, resident director with the Sydney Theatre Company, artistic director of Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Co-Operative and associate artistic director Company B Belvoir St.[7] He was appointed artistic director of the Queensland Theatre Company in 2011, and Director of the Sydney Festival in 2017.

Plays

• Black Medea
• The 7 Stages of Grieving, (co-written with Deborah Mailman)
• The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table, Griffin Theatre Company and HotHouse Theatre

Productions

• Bitin’ Back, Kooemba Jdarra
• Black Medea Malthouse Theatre, Company B
• The 7 Stages of Grieving
• The Sapphires
• The Cherry Pickers, Kevin Gilbert
• Stolen
• Parramatta Girls Alana Valentine
• Fountains Beyond
• Purple Dreams
• EORA Crossing
• RiverlanD, Scott Rankin
• Fountains Beyond
• Romeo and Juliet, Bell Shakespeare Company, Sydney
• The Sunshine Club
• Black-ed Up
• The Dreamers
• Wonderlands
• Conversations with the Dead
• Rainbow’s End, Koeemba Jdarra
• I Am Eora, Performing Lines/Sydney Festival
• One Night the Moon, Malthouse Theatre
• Mother Courage and Her Children, Queensland Theatre Company
• Bombshells, Queensland Theatre Company
• Head Full of Love, Queensland Theatre Company
• Black Diggers, Queensland Theatre Company/Sydney Festival

References

1. Wesley Enoch, The Australian.
2. Biography Wesley Enoch, Charles Darwin University.
3. "Two of us: Leeanne and Wesley Enoch". The Age. 7 March 2015.
4. Limelight, December 2018, My Music: Wesley Enoch, p. 114
5. Hallett, B. 2007. The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table. Arts - Review. Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Sydney. 20 August.
6. Lyall-Watson, K. 2010. Wesley Enoch gets the top job. Our Brisbane.Com. Brisbane. 24 June. http://www.ourbrisbane.com/blogs/performing-arts/2010-06-24-wesley-enoch-gets-top-job
7. Eckersley. M.(ed.) 2009. Drama from the Rim: Asian Pacific Drama Book. Drama Victoria. Melbourne. 2009. (p7-9)

Further reading

• Barbara Bollig: Transcultural Appropriations of the Medea Myth: Jackie Crossland's "Collateral Damage", Wesley Enoch’s "Black Medea", Cherrie Moraga’s "The Hungry Woman" and Dea Loher’s "Manhattan Medea". Thesis for Master's degree, Zentrum für Kanada-Studien Universität Trier 2017, Chair Ralf Hertel

External links

• Terms of engagement: Directions for new Indigenous leadership Video of discussion at The Monthly
• Interview