Director

“Paterson is one of Vancouver’s premiere young directors…”
- CE Gatchalian, Xtra West

Complete Directing Resume (pdf)

Selected Directing Credits: Classical
The Women of Troy, Canadian Stage: Festival of Ideas
The Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa in his Garden, Shaw Festival: Neil Munro Director’s Project
Coriolanus*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective
Shakespeare’s R & J*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective
Titus Andronicus*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective
Julius Caesar *, Mad Duck Theatre Collective
Henry 6 Parts 2 & 3, Savage God: Shakespeare Project
The Tempest*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mad Duck Theatre Collective
Macbeth, Square Pegs Theatre

Selected Directing Credits: TYA
The Hobbit*, Carousel Theatre
The Odyssey*, Carousel Theatre

Selected Directing Credits: Modern Classics
Hosanna, Saving Metropolis Collective
Moon for the Misbegotten, United Players
The Real Inspector Hound, Esdecy Arts & Presentation House

Selected Directing Credits: New Works and Translations
The List, BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective
Wet, Workhorse Theatre
The Centre of Everything Civilized, Winterbird Arts
Rock Me Sweet, Passe Muraille: Buzz Festival
Out Like Flynn, Fugue Free Theatre
Banana Boys, Firehall Arts Center
Suddenly, Useless Shoe’s Co-op
The Unbreakable Popsicle Stick Gang, One Crazy French Man Pro.
The LoveI Made to the Man with No Legs, Walking Fish Festival

Non Theatre or Cross Disciplinary:
Molino Rouge, Stage Director Created and Choreographed by Karen Flamenco
Wreckage, Contributing Director Created and Choreographed by Nita Bowerman

Staged Readings:
Howl Red, BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective
Encore, BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective
Unstuck, Foundry Theatre
Suicide Corporation, Firehall Arts Centre: BC Buds
Queen of the Amazons, Firehall Arts Centre: BC Buds
Selling Radio, Construction Inc.
Not About Nightingales, Mad Duck Theatre Collective
The Tempest, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC)
Merchant of Venice, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC)
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC)
The Winter’s Tale, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC)
Loves Labor’s Lost, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC)
As You Like It, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC)
Measure for Measure, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC)

Youth and Outreach Programs:
Daily Mischief, Richmond Gateway Theatre Academy
High School Musical,Richmond Gateway Theatre Academy
Straga Nona, Arts Umbrella, Strathcona Outreach
As You like It, Carousel Theatre Teen Shakespeare Program
Romeo and Juliet, Carousel Theatre Teen Shakespeare Program
Much Ado About Nothing, Carousel Theatre Teen Shakespeare Program
Comedy of Errors, Carousel Theatre Teen Shakespeare Program

Selected Residencies:
Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, Artistic Director Mentorship in New Play and Translation Development
Canadian Opera Company, Auditing Artist, The Magic Flute and Nixon in China
Opera Hamilton, Auditing Artist, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci
Canadian Stage, BASH Emerging Director Residency
The Centaur Theatre, Artist in Residence
The Shaw Festival, The Neil Munro Director’s Project

Selected Associations:
Associate Artist, Free Standing Space Collective (Montreal)
Associate Artist, The Neanderthal Festival (Vancouver)
Associate Artist,Theatre Conspiracy (Vancouver)
Associate Member: Director’s Lab North (Toronto)

Selected Assistant Directing Credits:
Champ de Mars, Imago Theatre/ Micheline Chevrier
Don Quixote, Arts Club, The Centaur Theatre / Roy Surette
Schwartz’s The Musical (workshop), The Centaur Theatre / Roy Surette
The Canterville Ghost (workshop), Theatre Beyond Words, Shaw Festival/ Jackie Maxwell
The Devil’s Disciple, The Shaw Festival/ Tadeusz Bradecki
In Good  King Charles’s Golden Days. The Shaw Festival/ Eda Holmes
The Amorous Adventures of Anatol, The Playhouse/ Morris Panych
Loves Labor’s Lost, Savage God/ John Juliani
A Midsommer Night’s Dream, Savage God/ John Juliani

* Please see Awards