Building Rural Arts: Inside Medway’s Paint the Town Festival
Last season (2018), I joined Vancouver’s Theatre Conspiracy on the UK Tour of their award-winning Foreign Radical. Following the successful
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Jack Paterson (he/him) is a multi-award-winning theatre maker and creative producer with over two decades of experience with a profound commitment to inclusive, innovative, and globally conscious theatre. His projects span Canada, Asia, Europe, South America, the USA, and the UK, ranging from Rural Creativity to International Collaboration, specialising in transcultural and multi-disciplinary devised works, fostering creative access, developing new works and translations, and creating contemporary interpretations of English and world classics.
His productions have garnered over 30 professional theatre award nominations, with numerous wins for “Outstanding Direction” and “Outstanding Production,” and he is a recipient of the “Ray Michal” and “John Moffat & Larry Lillo” Outstanding Body of Work Awards. His training includes Circle in the Square (USA), Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (Moscow, RU), Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ID), and an MFA in Direction from East15 Acting School & University of Essex (UK), and residencies and professional development with such organisations as Robert Lepage & Ex Machina (Multidisciplinary/ Technology Creation, QC), flausen+ bundesnetzwerk (Transdisciplinary Creation, DE), Theater HORA (Disability Arts, CH), Theatre503 (New Writing, UK), & Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal (New Translation, QC).
Jack is the Lead Creative Producer for Theatre Curation and New Works Development for Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival (Interior BC), and the co founder of Vancouver’s Bouche Theatre Collective (connecting across distance), New Translation Canada (bridging linguistic divides), and Theatre Nomad Collective (international collaborations).
His productions have garnered over 30 professional theatre award nominations, with numerous wins for “Outstanding Direction” and “Outstanding Production,” and he is a recipient of the “Ray Michal” and “John Moffat & Larry Lillo” Outstanding Body of Work Awards. His training includes Circle in the Square (USA), Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (Moscow, RU), Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ID), and an MFA in Direction from East15 Acting School & University of Essex (UK), and residencies and professional development with such organisations as Robert Lepage & Ex Machina (Multidisciplinary/ Technology Creation, QC), flausen+ bundesnetzwerk (Transdisciplinary Creation, DE), Theater HORA (Disability Arts, CH), Theatre503 (New Writing, UK), & Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal (New Translation, QC).
Jack is the Lead Creative Producer for Theatre Curation and New Works Development for Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival (Interior BC), and the co founder of Vancouver’s Bouche Theatre Collective (connecting across distance), New Translation Canada (bridging linguistic divides), and Theatre Nomad Collective (international collaborations).