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Patricia Doyle
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.
Productions
northern ballet theatre company | |
| 2018 Work includes | continuing professional development work for the company on text work, and existing productions such as THE THREE MUSKETEERS as they return to the rep |
| THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS | as Dramatic Coach |
| CINDERELLA | Associate Director/Original Scenario Creator |
| THE GREAT GATSBY | Co-director with David Nixon & Co-Creator of the Scenario |
| CLEOPATRA | Co-director and co-creator of the scenario (with David Nixon and Claude-Michel Schönberg) |
| WUTHERING HEIGHTS | Theatre Associate and Dramaturge (Choreographer David Nixon) |
| HAMLET | Co-director and Co-Creator of the Scenario |
| A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM | Cocreator of scenario and Co-director. Nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. |
| SLEEPING BEAUTY | Created scenario with David Nixon |
| PETER PAN | Co-director & Co Creator of the Scenario |
| A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE | Director |
| CARMEN | Director, also at Royal New Zealand Ballet, Sadler’s Wells and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens |
| SWAN LAKE | Dramatic Associate, director David Nixon |
| DANGEROUS LIAISONS | Performing as The Older Marquise |
| She also worked as Drama consultant and Acting coach with Christopher Gable on his productions of Dracula, Giselle and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. | |
film and television | |
| BIG BALLET | Coaching dancers for Channel 4 Arts series with Wayne Sleep and Monica Laughman |
| NO MAN'S LAND | Short film |
| BEWARE OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR | Short film directorial debut |
| ANNA AND THE KING (Feature film starring Jodie Foster) | Children’s Rehearsal Director |
| HEARTBEAT | ITV Drama Coach for Charlotte Church and Gary Barlow’s debut television performances |
theatre and ballet | |
| MY FIRST BALLET: CINDERELLA (Dramatic Associate) | Choreographer: Ruth Brill English National Ballet |
| CHAPLIN, THE TRAMP (Dramatic Associate Director) | Choreographer: Daniel de Andrade Slovak National Ballet |
| RED RIDING HOOD | Ballet Black, Barbican |
| NIJINSKY (co-director) | Choreographer: Daniel de Andrade |
| MARTINE | Salisbury Playhouse |
| TIME AND THE CONWAYS | Ohio USA |
| NOISES OFF | Ohio USA |
| NO FOND RETURN OF LOVE | London premiere, Theatre Maketa |
| A CLERGYMAN’S DAUGHTER | For her own Theatre Company, Terra Firma, at The Theatre Chipping Norton/ Bristol Old Vic/tour |
| BLOODY POETRY | Terra Firma on regional tour |
| BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS | Man In The Moon Theatre/London/European and UK tour |
| SERIOUS MONEY | Man In The Moon Theatre, London |
| 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD | A private performance in aid of The Globe Theatre |
| LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD | Theatre Chipping Norton |
| PUSS IN BOOTS | Theatre Chipping Norton |
| ALADDIN | Southwark Playhouse |
workshops and work with students | |
| Patricia has worked with Audiences Yorkshire and Arts & Business Yorkshire, in conjunction with NBT’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 Actor’s Centre. She has also directed at the East 15 Acting School, Mountview School and the Guildford School of Acting. | |