Clive Paget is a Sydney based director and dramaturg.  From 2003 to 2007 he was Music Theatre Consultant to the National Theatre where he was responsible for the development of new musical theatre work and assisted on Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s Caroline, or Change. 

From 2003 to 2006 he was the Artistic Advisor to the English Theatre Frankfurt where he directed acclaimed productions of Jesus Christ Superstar and Closer in their new theatre.  In 2004 Clive was a judge on Channel 4’s Musicality and in 2005 he directed The Next Big Thing, nominated for Best New Musical by What’s On Stage.  His most recent productions include Grant Olding’s Three Sides which played the New York Music Theater Festival, Associate Director on Rent at the Duke of Yorks, a Celebration of W H Auden and an event around Ted Hughes Letters for Fabers and Southbank Centre.  In 2007 Clive received an award from the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain for the encouragement of new writing.

Artistic Director of London’s Bridewell Theatre from 2000 to 2003, Clive was an original co-founder of one of the UK’s most imaginative and highly regarded small theatres.  He also directed many of its most successful productions including the UK premieres of Adam Guettel’s Floyd Collins (Observer Top Ten Theatre Productions for 1999), Michael John LaChiusa’s Hello Again and Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World.  He co-directed the World premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night and directed the world premiere of Stephen Clark and Andrew Peggie’s Eyam.

He devised and directed The Cutting Edge which brought together the talents of Jason Robert Brown, Adam Guettel and Michael John LaChiusa and played at the Donmar Warehouse and the Cardiff International Festival.  He also devised and directed There’s Always a Woman and The Road You Didn’t Take, two shows exploring Sondheim’s writing for women and men respectively.

Other directing credits include the premiere of Higher Than Babel (Andrew Caldecott), Marry Me A Little (Sondheim), Correspondent (Greg Lyons) at the Edinburgh Festival (Assembly Rooms), All in the Timing (Ives), An Englishman Abroad (Bennett), The Blue Hour (Mamet), Trouble In Tahiti (Bernstein), Green Forms (Bennett), Noon (McNally), A Grand Wee Game (Lyons), No Stone Unturned and Terry Pratchett’s Mort for Youth Music Theatre: UK, Possessed (Teresa Howard/Steven Edis) for Greenwich Musical Futures, The Night Before Christmas (Anthony Neilson), the European premiere of A Childhood Miracle (Rorem) and the London premiere of Closer Than Ever (Maltby & Shire).