Eugene Lynch, hailed as “a talent to watch” (Sydney Morning Herald), is a director of theatre and opera. 

 

Eugene has recently made debuts with Pinchgut Opera and Sydney Chamber Opera to critical acclaim. He is also currently a Young Artist with Opera Queensland. 

 

Recent projects include Maid Made Boss / La Serva Padrona (Pinchgut Opera), Pierrot Lunaire (Sydney Chamber Opera & Ensemble Offspring), IRL and The Pigeons (KXT).

 

Upcoming projects include: The Hairy Ape (development) funded by Create NSW & Creative Australia; and In a Grove by Chris Cerrone (Opera Queensland).

 

Most recently, Eugene directed IRL by Lewis Treston, The Pigeons (The Other Theatre in association with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Co); was Associate Director on La Cenerentola (Opera Queensland, Assistant Director on Julius Caesar at Pinchgut Opera, Hamlet at Opera Australia, Associate Director on Lucia di Lammermoor and the Brisbane Bel Canto Festival with Opera Queensland.

 

Eugene  was Assistant Director to Stuart Maunder on Turn of the Screw and Voss for State Opera of South Australia, Neil Armfield on Platée for Pinchgut Opera and on Barrie Kosky’s The Golden Cockerel for the Adelaide Festival. 

 

Eugene is the artistic director of The Other Theatre. For The Other Theatre, he has directed Graeme Koehne and Louis Nowra’s Love Burns, From Morning to Midnight, IRL, The Pigeons, Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, Shakespeare’s Richard II, Mike Barlett’s Cock (Sydney Mardi Gras Festival x Brand X) and the Australian premiere of Marius von Mayneburg’s The Dog, The Night and The Knife.

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