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Patricia Doyle

Director

Patricia Doyle trained at RADA and before she moved into directing she worked extensively as an actress in Britain and America in theatre, television, film and radio. She was a founding director of Geva Theatre New York and in the UK has worked with many of the major repertory companies as well as the National Theatre, Royal Court and Royal Shakespeare Company. Directors Patricia has worked with include Alan Ayckbourn, Stephen Barry, Peter Brook in his world tour production for the RSC of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter Cheeseman, Robert Chetwyn, Peter Gill, Peter Hall, Christopher Morahan, Harold Pinter and Peter Wood.

Theatre & Dance

Credits

my first ballet: cinderella
2020
English National Ballet
Dramatic Associate
Choreographer: Ruth Brill
Chaplin, the tramp
2019
Slovak National Ballet
Dramatic Associate Director
Choreographer: Daniel de Andrade
red riding hood
2017
Barbican Theatre
Ballet Black
the boy in the striped pyjamas
2017
Northern Ballet Company
Dramatic Coach
Nijinsky - God of the dance
2015
Slovak National Ballet
Co-Director
Choreographer: Daniel de Andrade
cinderella
2013
Northern Ballet Company
Associate Director / Original Scenario Creator
the great gatsby
2013
Northern Ballet Company
Co-Director / Co-Creator of the Scenario
a streetcar named desire
2012
carmen
2012
Northern Ballet Company
David Nixon Production, later staged by Royal New Zealand Ballet, Sadler's Wells & Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
cleopatra
2011
Northern Ballet Company
Co-Director / Co-Creator of the Scenario
sleeping beauty
2009
Northern Ballet Company
Created Scenario with David Nixon
hamlet
2008
Northern Ballet Company
Co-Director / Co-Creator of the Scenario
Peter Pan
2004
Northern Ballet Company
Co-Director / Co-Creator of the Scenario
swan lake
2004
Northern Ballet Company
Dramatic Associate
dangerous liaisons
2004
Northern Ballet Company
Performing as The Older Marquise
a midsummer night's dream
2003
Northern Ballet Company
Co-Director / Co-Creator of the Scenario
wuthering heights
2002
Northern Ballet Company
Theatre Associate / Dramaturg
aladdin
1995
Southwark Playhouse
no fond return of love
1994
Man in the Moon Theatre
puss in boots
1991
Chipping Norton Theatre
time and the conways
1990
Oberlin College, Ohio, USA
noises off
1990
University of Akron, Ohio, USA
martine
Salisbury Playhouse
little red riding hood
1990
Chipping Norton Theatre
84 Charing Cross road
1989
Globe Theatre
Benefit
serious money
1988
Man in the Moon Theatre, London
a clergyman's daughter
1988
Terra Firma / Chipping Norton Theatre / Bristol Old Vic / Tour
bloody poetry
1987
Terra Firma / Regional Tour
blue remembered hills
1986
Man in the Moon Theatre / London / European & UK Tour

Patricia has worked with Audiences Yorkshire and Arts & Business Yorkshire, in conjunction with Northern Ballet Company’s Learning & Access programme and directed and devised ‘Deptford Tales’ for the National Youth Theatre. Patricia has a long and continuing working association with the company including workshops, mentoring and creating a new London International Theatre Course. She has also worked with students in conservatory drama training – both in Theatre and in Ballet. For the Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre she directed Three Sisters, Great Expectations, Travesties and Wuthering Heights (which she also adapted); for the NYT she directed a workshop production of Love on the Dole, Barnaby Rudge and Have You Seen This Girl for the 1997 Edinburgh Festival. She has taught at the London Contemporary Dance School and for fifteen years she directed the Drama courses at The Central School of Ballet. Past students joined the Northern Ballet Company and New Adventures. For the London Centre for Theatre Studies she directed The Voysey Inheritance and she regularly gives classes at the Actors Centre. She has also directed at the East 15 Acting School, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and the Guildford School of Acting.

Patricia Doyle

Director