Artistic Director- Patrick McCarthy
Associate Director- James Tresise
The Company
Mutation: The act or process of being altered or changed.
Mutation Theatre is a critically acclaimed, multi-award
winning, independent theatre company based in Melbourne , Australia
Mutation Theatre creates work through rigorous and open collaboration; with each projects process, aesthetic and creative team being specifically and uniquely designed to best facilitate the needs of the piece. The company is interested in a diversity of theatrical possibilities, and its output is a constantly mutating body of work.
The company has a focus on new and experimental theatrical forms and processes, through which it aims to find a contemporary voice in all of its creations.
Mutation Theatre creates work through rigorous and open collaboration; with each projects process, aesthetic and creative team being specifically and uniquely designed to best facilitate the needs of the piece. The company is interested in a diversity of theatrical possibilities, and its output is a constantly mutating body of work.
The company has a focus on new and experimental theatrical forms and processes, through which it aims to find a contemporary voice in all of its creations.
Patrick McCarthy
Artistic Director
Mutation Theatre
Awards
Nomination: 2011 Victorian Green Room Awards: Best Lighting Design (Independent)- For Katie Sfetkidis on These are the isolate
Winner: People's Choice Award- 2010 Melbourne Fringe Festival for The Arrival
Winner: Victorian Writer's Centre Award for Best Emerging Playwright- 2010 Melbourne Fringe Festival for Katy Warner's These are the Isolate
Winner: Theatre Works Award- 2010 Melbourne Fringe Festival for The Arrival and These are the Isolate
High Commendation: Melbourne Dramatist's New Writing Award for Patrick McCarthy's Fluorescent Facade: Howard Arkley and Suburbia
