Patricia Doyle Associate Artist

Patricia has worked extensively with Northern Ballet Theatre, beginning as drama consultant and acting coach on Christopher Gable's Dracula, also working closely with him and Michael Pink on Giselle and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She then directed Northern Ballet Theatre's Carmen and A Streetcar Named Desire, both choreographed by Didy Veldman. Her collaboration with David Nixon began on Wuthering Heights and Swan Lake and continued with Patricia's role as co-director on the company's new versions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Peter Pan. She has also performed with the company, playing a leading role in Dangerous Liaisons.

Born

Hertfordshire

Trained

RADA

Previous Companies As An Actress

Patricia has worked in many of the major repertory companies in Britain at the Royal Court, the National Theatre and with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Founding member of the GeVa Theatre, Rochester, NY.

Previous Companies As A Director

Martine, Salisbury Playhouse
Time and the Conways and Noises Off Ohio, USA
Three Sisters, Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights and Travesties, Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre
Puss in Boots and Little Red Riding Hood, Theatre, Chipping Norton
Blue Remembered Hills, A Clegryman’s Daughter, and Bloody Poetry with her own company Terra Firma

She has also worked with Central School of Ballet, the National Youth Theatre and has been involved in the training of students at major Drama Schools as well as working with young offenders. Patricia also directs courses at the Actors Centre in London and was Rehearsal Director for the children on the Hollywood film Anna and the King starring Josie Foster. She is currently working on a site-specific piece about Christopher Marlowe in Deptford.

Career Highlights As An Actress

The world tour of Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company
Amanda in Noel Coward's Private Lives
Emma in Harold Pinter's Betrayal
Hester in Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea
Sheila in Peter Nichol's A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Jo in Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey
Pinocchio

Career Highlights As A Director

Martine
Blue Remembered Hills
A Clergyman's Daughter
Wuthering Heights
Three Sisters
Time and the Conways
…and all her productions with Northern Ballet Theatre

Personal

Was married to the director Donald MacKechnie with whom she had a long and fulfilling artistic career. Has a son, Angus MacKechnie, who is at the National Theatre. Saw Northern Ballet Theatre in London and decided she would like to work with dancers, wrote a letter to Christopher Gable…

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