Visiting Fellow (Performance)

Patrick Nolan
Autumn Session 2006

Patrick Nolan works extensively in theatre, film and opera.

In 2004 Patrick directed The Flood a large scale, outdoor production for NORPA, a new double bill for Opera Australia entitled ‘Baroque Masterworks’ – Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda – an adaptation of Tales from the Arabian Nights for Theatre of Image, Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte for the Sydney Conservatorium and Kura Tungar – Songs from the River with Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter and the Australian Art Orchestra for the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts.

Engagements in 2003 included directing Love in the Age of Therapy an opera by Paul Grabowsky and Joanna Murray-Smith, for OzOpera at the Sydney Festival in January; bash, by Neil Labute for Glen Street Theatre, Eugene Onegin for Opera Australia, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro for the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and The Great Levante, a play about one of Australia’s most extraordinary vaudeville acts for The National Museum of Australia.

Other productions directed include the world premiere of Love In The Age of Therapy,for the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts; 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 Sydney Conservatorium of Music; The world premiere of Below for the Griffin Theatre Company; Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisandefor 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 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 directors 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.

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