Paige Rattray

Stage and Screen Director

Paige was the Director, New Work and Artistic Development for the Sydney Theatre Company from 2022 to 2024, an Associate Director from 2018 to 2022 and was chosen as the STC’s Richard Wherrett Fellow for a consecutive two years (2015, 2016). Paige was previously the Associate Artistic Director at Queensland Theatre. She was the co-founder of award-winning, independent theatre company ARTHUR, and a graduate of NIDA. Paige is a much-lorded dramaturg and director of new work having premiered landmark new Australian plays.

In 2024 Paige directed the UK premiere of her hit musical Fangirls at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre co-produced by Sonia Friedman Productions as well as the world premiere of Into the Shimmering World by Angus Cerini for the STC. 2023 saw Paige direct two major works for the STC, a revival of Do Not Go Gentle by Patricia Cornelius and Ella Hickson’s OIL. Previous to that, Paige directed The Lifespan of a Fact starring Sigrid Thornton for the STC and the premiere production of Glace Chase’s Triple X for STC and Queensland Theatre, Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit starring Courtney Act and Death of a Salesman. Paige also directed a remount of Fangirls at the Sydney Opera House. 

Earlier in 2021 Paige directed the premiere production of James Elazzi’s Queen Fatima for Sydney Festival and the National Theatre of Parramatta. In 2020 she directed The Deep Blue Sea for STC and was the Production Dramaturg on their critically acclaimed production The Picture of Dorian Gray which has since premiered on the West End in the UK and will open on Broadway in March 2025. In 2019 Paige directed The Beauty Queen of Leenane for STC and won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Direction of a Mainstage Production. Earlier that year Paige directed the commercial and critical hit musical Fangirls for Queensland Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre and ATYP. The production has since toured nationally in 2021 and it won the 2019 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Mainstage Musical and the Matilda Award for Best Musical or Cabaret, as well as Paige being nominated for Best Director.

Paige directed How To Rule The World, the premiere production of Black is the New White including the 2019 and 2018 Black is the New White Tour, Australian Graffiti and Power Plays for STC, Bright World for ARTHUR/Theatre Works and Hedda, Scenes from a Marriage and Switzerland for Queensland Theatre. Other credits include the premiere of Melissa Bubnic’s Boys Will Be Boys for STC, This House Is Mine with Milkcrate Theatre and her widely toured work Cut Snake.   

Paige's company ARTHUR is a known for creating contemporary Australian works, both text-based and devised. From 2011-2016 they presented 15 seasons nationally, developed and presented 7 world premieres of new Australian work and toured and presented work in Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Queensland.

For screen, Paige has been involved with developing a feature film for Fremantle Media Australia/Netflix which she will direct and is also developing her own original tv series with Dreamchaser Productions and Happy or Dead as the Creator and Director. She worked as the Dramaturg and Shadow Director on Fremantle Media Australia/Netflix’s hit show Heartbreak High S3 and was the Dramaturg on S2. She worked as Creator and Senior Producer on the 3-part current affairs program The Whole Table in collaboration with SBS and STC.

For enquiries regarding Paige please contact us via email or on (02) 9319 7199.