Wesley Enoch
Australian playwright and artistic director (born 1969)
Wesley James Enoch (born 1969) is an Australian playwright and artistic director. He is especially known for The 7 Stages of Grieving, co-written with Deborah Mailman. He was artistic director of the Queensland Theatre Company from mid-2010 until October 2015, and completed a five-year stint as director of the Sydney Festival in February 2021.
Early and personal life
Wesley James Enoch was born on North Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah in 1969, the eldest son of Doug and Lyn Enoch. and grew up in Brisbane. He has four siblings and is the younger brother of Queensland government minister Leeanne Enoch. His heritage is Nunukul and Ngugi (two of three Quandamooka peoples from Stradbroke Island), but also has a mixture of Irish, English and Scottish blood, and Danish and Spanish blood on his (non-Indigenous) mother's side, and Filipino, Pacific Islander and Kandju heritage on his father's.
Enoch earned a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
As of 2021, Enoch is the domestic partner of past artistic director of Australian Ballet, David McAllister , since around 2008, although they have lived in different cities for much of the time.
Career
From 1993 to 1997, Enoch was founding artistic director at Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts (in existence 1993–2007), where he directed a number of his own works.
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