MTC Associate and former Griffin head will take over as AD from November.

Melbourne-based Sam Strong has been announced as the new Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company. The current Associate Director at MTC will take up the reins from Wesley Enoch in November this year.

“I’m delighted to be taking on the challenge of Artistic Director of the Queensland Theatre Company,” said Strong on his appointment. “Wesley Enoch is an artist and a cultural leader I admire and it’s a rare gift to inherit a company in as great a shape – artistically and operationally – as QTC.”

Strong has an enviable track record with new and revived work both at Melbourne where he has been Associate AD since 2013, but especially at his former pitch running Sydney’s new writing powerhouse Griffin Theatre, where he tripled subscribers, expanded the programme to include the revival of Australian classics and directed Gordon Graham’s The Boys – the highest grossing show in the theatre’s history. His most recent directing credits include Masquerade at the Sydney Festival and MTC’s Endgame. He also directed a well-received Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Hugo Weaving for Sydney Theatre Company. The Floating World for Griffin won him a...