"...Jack Paterson’s crisp, imaginative direction...makes the point with wonderful theatricality." - Jerry Wasserman, The Province
Jack is a Canadian director, dramaturg, actor and theatre creator who works across the nation. Credits include directing The Women of Troy (Canadian Stage), F. Garcia Lorca's The Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa in his Garden (Shaw Festival: Neil Munro Director's Project) and Artist in Residence at The Centaur Theatre.
He is the co-founder of the the award winning MD Theatre Collective for whom he directed Coriolanus, Vancouver premieres of Shakespeare's R&J and Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar and Vancouver first female Prospero in The Tempest. Other directing credits include The Hobbit, The Odyssey (Carousel Theatre), Banana Boys (Firehall Arts Centre). He has performed in Vancouver with The Arts Club, Chemainus Theatre, The Firehall and was a regular in Savage God's The Shakespeare Project.
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Jack was most recently the Stage Director for Karen Flemenco's Dance Project Molino Rouge, director of Henry 5 (MD Research Lab), Dramaturg for Muller's Macbeth: nach Shakespeare (Theatre Conspiracy) and Auditing artists at the COC. Jack is currently doing a Dramaturgy and New Play Development Mentorship at Playwrights' Workshop Montreal.
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