Patrick Nolan
Director - Kura Tungar Melbourne 2004
Patrick Nolan works extensively in theatre, film and opera.
Engagements in 2004 a new double bill for Opera Australia entitled ‘Baroque Masterworks’ – Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; The Flood for Northern Rivers Performing Arts Festival (NORPA) and Tales from the Arabian Nights for Theatre of Image.
Recent productions directed in Australia include the world premiere of Love In The Age of Therapy, an opera by Paul Grabowsky and Joanna Murray-Smith, for OzOpera the Sydney Festival and the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts; Eugene Onegin for Opera Australia; The Marriage of Figaro for the Conservatorium of Music; bash, by Neil Labute for Glen Street Theatre; The Great Levante, a play about one of Australia’s most extraordinary vaudeville acts for The National Museum of Australia; An Evening with Michael Leunig for the 2002 Sydney Festival; Room 207: Nikola Tesla for X-Ray Theatre; Poulenc’s opera Dialogues of the Carmelites, which opened the new Music Workshop of the NSW Conservatorium of Music; Below for the Griffin Theatre Company; Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in Sydney and Melbourne for Opera Australia; a multimedia production of Macbeth for Theatre of Relativity; Moliere's Imaginary Invalid for NIDA; The Malevolence at Belvoir St. Theatre; Harold Pinter’s Victoria Station and Cock and Bull Story at The Stables and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night for ATYP
Alongside his work in theatre and opera, Patrick has been developing his film career; beginning in 1996 with Sagrada Tomata a short film he produced and co-wrote with Andrew Upton for Bent Double Productions. In 1998 Patrick wrote and directed the short film 389, which was a finalist in Tropfest and screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival. Since then Patrick has written and directed the short films Home Movie, Lady's Man and Luke all screened at Tropfest and various other film festivals in Australia.
Patrick is a graduate of NIDA's director's course. In 2000 he was awarded a Mike Walsh Travelling Fellowship which allowed him to work with a number of theatre and opera companies in Europe and the USA. He has travelled extensively in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA. As a director he has been invited to work as a tutor for the NSW Conservatorium of Music Opera course, University of Sydney Performance Studies Unit, UNSW School of Theatre and Film Studies, and the Australian Theatre for Young People. He has also directed for the NIDA Playwright's Studio and the Australian National Playwrights' Conference.
Director Love in the Age of Therapy Melbourne Festival
“Love in the Age of Therapy is a heady, cheeky winner. Director Patrick Nolan has delivered a seamless, tightly focused production that will surely enjoy a longer life than its two scheduled festival appearances.”
Peter Burch The Australian 21 October 2002
Below Griffin Theatre Co 2000
“Inviting comparisons with Pinter and Beckett, this outback noir piece displays strong existentialist and nihilist overtones, brimming with tension and menace… Kudos to director Patrick Nolan and the trio of actors who give almost possessed performances in a starkly lit dusty set, keeping the suspense and tension factor high.”
Mark Woods Variety
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