Wesley Enoch

Wesley Enoch (born 1969) is an Australian playwright and artistic director of Murri descent from Stradbroke Island (Minjeribah), and he is a proud Noonuccal Nuugi man.

The eldest son of Doug and Lyn Enoch from Stradbroke Island, Wesley Enoch grew up in Brisbane. He is the brother of Queensland government minister Leeanne Enoch.

Enoch was trained in drama in the Bachelor of Arts (drama) course at Queensland University of Technology, where he directed and acted in many productions. He was also a founding member of the QUT Bonzani Commedia Troupe.

Enoch has been artistic director of Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts, an associate artist with the Queensland Theatre Company, resident director with the Sydney Theatre Company, artistic director of Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Co-Operative and associate artistic director Company B Belvoir St. He is now artistic director of the Queensland Theatre Company.

The plays that he writes and those he directs deal with issues of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and the complexities of Australian race relations. Enoch attained prominence with his production of "7 Stages of Grieving" (co-written with Deborah Mailman) and then with Jane Harrison's Stolen, which premiered at the Playbox Theatre and went on to tour both nationally and internationally.

His play Black Medea is based on Euripides' Medea and updates and re-contextualises the Greek tragedy, giving it an Aboriginal perspective and transporting it to an Australian setting. A young Indigenous woman leaves her desert home, denies her culture and forsakes her family to follow her wealthy, city-born lover. But her seeming good fortune soon turns bad, as her loveless marriage to the drunken and violent Jason falls apart. When Medea attempts to leave with their young son, Jason makes her promise that she will never take their child from the house.

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