The Queensland Theatre Company is set to “wave a loving farewell” to their Artistic Director Wesley Enoch, who has recently taken up a new appointment as the Festival Director of the Sydney Festival. In the meantime, the company is now beginning to undertake a global search for their new Artistic Director, with an announcement to follow later this year.
As you can see from their television commercial above, the Queensland Theatre Company have a range of productions taking place in 2015. These are in addition to a number of tours and educational opportunities also on offer to those in Brisbane and across Queensland. For more specifics, I encourage you to check out their official website.
Annastacia Palaszczuk | Queensland Premier and Minister for the Arts
Wesley Enoch started his theatre career in his home state of Queensland and is a passionate leader and arts advocate whose vision has inspired a generation of theatre artists and practitioners. His many highlights for Queensland Theatre Company include Black Diggers, which toured throughout Australia in 2014-15, and was, in fact, a successful co-production with the Sydney Festival. I thank Wesley for his outstanding achievements and look forward to new artistic partnerships between Queensland companies and Sydney Festival as Wesley takes on his new role
Sue Donnelly | Executive Director of Queensland Theatre Company
Wesley will remain one of the great Artistic Directors to lead QTC. His vision, his sense of social justice, his bravery, his ability to empower and enthuse is admired throughout our ranks. From the stage to behind the scenes, he is a man of the arts through and through, and we all wish him the absolute best. That he will take Sydney Festival to new heights, we have no doubt.
In 2010 Wesley Enoch became the Queensland Theatre Company’s sixth artistic director and the first Indigenous head of an Australian state theatre company. He is a renowned playwright and director, and is comfortable breaking new artistic ground wherever he steps. He leaves QTC with flagship new programs, an artistic calendar that is full and a vision that will remain for years to come.
