Wesley Enoch AM

Professor Wesley Enoch AM is a proud Quandamooka man from Minjerribah, an internationally acclaimed playwright, and artistic director.

Most recently, Wesley was the Sydney Festival Director for five years and a Director at Sydney Theatre Company for his production, Appropriate. His previous positions include five years (2010-2015) as artistic director of the Queensland Theatre Company, and artistic director at Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts and the ILBIJERRI Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Theatre Co-operative.

Wesley has also held the 2002 Australia Council Cite Internationale des Arts Residency in Paris and was the Australia Council’s Artistic Director for the Australian Delegation to the 2008 Festival of Pacific Arts. He was creative consultant, segment director, and Indigenous consultant for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Wesley has written and directed many iconic Indigenous productions including, The 7 Stages of Grieving and Black Medea. The Story of The Miracles at Cookie’s Table won him the 2005 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award. He has directed productions of The Sapphires, Black Diggers, I am Eora, The Man From Mukinupin, Yibiyung, Parramatta Girls and Black Cockatoo. He directed Riverland in 2004 for Windmill Performing Arts which premiered as part of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts and won the 2005 Helpmann Award for Best Presentation for Children.

Wesley has a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and is the Indigenous Chair in the Creative Industries for QUT.