Wesley Enoch


Wesley James Enoch is an Australian playwright and artistic director.

Personal life

Enoch grew up in Brisbane. He has four siblings and is the younger brother of Queensland government minister Leeanne Enoch.
Enoch received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Queensland University of Technology.
Enoch is the domestic partner of Artistic Director of Australian Ballet David McAllister.

Career

From 1994 to 1997, Enoch was artistic director at Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts and then served a term from 2000-2001 as resident director at Sydney Theatre Company. From 2003 to 2006, he was artistic director at Ilbijerri Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Theatre Co-operative. In 2002, Enoch was the recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts Cité International des Arts residency in Paris. His The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table won the 2005 Patrick White Playwrights' Award.
From 2006 to 2008, Enoch was associate artistic director at Belvoir Street Theatre. On 24 June 2010, Enoch was announced to be the new artistic director of the Queensland Theatre Company.
Enoch has been artistic director of Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts, an associate artist with the Queensland Theatre Company, resident director with the Sydney Theatre Company, artistic director of Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Co-Operative and associate artistic director Company B Belvoir St. He was appointed artistic director of the Queensland Theatre Company in 2011, and Director of the Sydney Festival in 2017.

Plays