Patricia Doyle

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.
As a director: Work includes: 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.
As a director: Martine, Blue Remembered Hills, A Clergyman's Daughter, Wuthering Heights,Three Sisters, Time and the Conways, and all 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….