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Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
About Jack Paterson
- John Paterson (born May 25, 1974) is a Canadian director, dramaturg, actor and theatre creator who works across the country.
- His favourite credits include directing the installation of The List (BoucheWHACKED!), the site specific The Women of Troy (Canadian Stage) and F.
- Garcia Lorca’s The Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa (Shaw Festival); production dramaturgy on the English language premiere of H.
- Muller’s Mabeth: nach Shakespeare; and playing Adolf Hitler and Walt Disney in The Blue Light (Firehall Arts Centre) and Scheffler in The Ugly One (Plan B Collective). 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 (Carousel Theatre) and Banana Boys (Firehall Arts Centre).
- A graduate of Circle in the Square (NYC), 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 (Quebec), Theatre Conspiracy (B.C.) and The Magnetic North Theatre Festival (Ontario/ Alberta).
- 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 Ray Michal Outstanding Body of Work by an Emerging Director Award.
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