ABOUT
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); The Hairy Ape (development) funded by Create NSW & Creative Australia; and In a Grove (workshop) by Chris Cerrone (Opera Queensland).
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.
eugene.lynch@outlook.com
In a Grove (Workshop)
Composed by Chris Cerrone, libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann after the short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Opera Queensland
2025
The Hairy Ape (Development)
Composed by William Gardiner, after the play by Eugene O’Neill
Proudly supported by Creative Australia and Create NSW
2025
Pierrot Lunaire
Composed by Arnold Schoenberg
Sydney Chamber Opera x Ensemble Offspring
2025
Maid Made Boss (La serva padrona)
Composed by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, libretto by Gennaro Federico
Pinchgut Opera
2025
IRL
By Lewis Treston
The Other Theatre, in association with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company
2025
The Pigeons
By David Gieselmann, translated by Maja Zade
The Other Theatre, in association with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company
2024
Not I
By Samuel Beckett
Hayes St Studio
2023
From Morning to Midnight
By Georg Kaiser, translation by Dennis Kelly
The Other Theatre
2023
Love Burns
Composed by Graeme Koehne, libretto by Louis Nowra
The Other Theatre
2020
ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
La Cenerentola
Composed by Gioachino Rossini, libretto by Jacopo Ferretti
Opera Queensland
Associate Director to Laura Hansford
2025
Julius Caesar in Egypt
Composed by G.F. Händel, libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym
Pinchgut Opera
Assistant Director to Neil Armfield
2024
Hamlet
Composed by Brett Dean, libretto by Matthew Jocelyn
Opera Australia
Assistant Director to Neil Armfield
2024
Lucia di Lammermoor
Composed by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvadore Cammarano
Opera Queensland
Associate Director to Patrick Nolan
2024
Voss
Composed by Richard Meale, libretto by David Malouf
State Opera of South Australia
Assistant Director to Stuart Maunder
2022
Turn of the Screw
Composed by Benjamin Britten, libretto by Myfwany Piper
State Opera of South Australia
Assistant Director to Stuart Maunder
2022
The Golden Cockerel
Composed by Nickolai Rimsky-Kosakov, libretto by Vladimir Belsky
Adelaide Festival
Assistant Director to Barrie Kosky
2022
Platée
Composed by Jean-Phillipe Rameau, libretto by Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville
Pinchgut Opera
Assistant Director to Neil Armfield
2021
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Composed by Benjamin Britten, libretto by Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears after William Shakespeare
Adelaide Festival
Assistant Director to Neil Armfield
2021
Young Artist
Opera Queensland
2024 – 2025
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts/Laws
University of Sydney
2020
Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
College of Law
2021
GRANTS/AWARDS
Multiple Grants from Create NSW, Creative Australia, Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation.