Tyler Fitzpatrick

Tyler (she/her) is a stage and production manager, producer, lighting designer and theatre maker currently based on unceded Land of the Gadigal. She graduated with distinction from the University of Wollongong, earning the Merrigong Theatre Company Production Prize. Tyler has been the Production and Operations Manager at Shopfront Arts Co-Op since 2020 and services arts organisations as a Production Associate with The Paperjam Partners. With Paperjam, she has production managed Blaque Showgirls, Jailbaby and Pony (Griffin Theatre Company, 2023), A Practical Guide to Self-Defense (National Theatre of Parramatta/Merrigong Theatre Company, 2022), Nothing (NTofP, 2022), and Dust (Milk Crate Theatre Company, 2022). 

Other production manager credits include The Other Side (2023) and Mirage (2022) for Campbelltown Arts Centre, Fledgling (KXT 2022, MerrigongX, 2021), Chop Chef (Blush Opera, 2021), The Complication of Lyrebirds (Sydney Festival/Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2021). 

Most recently, Tyler was the Stage Manager for the Malthouse season of seven methods of killing kylie jenner co-presented by Greendoor Theatre Company and Darlinghurst Theatre Company. 

She was awarded the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Lighting Design for an Independent Production for Moon Rabbit Rising, presented at Belvoir 25A by The Little Eggs Collective. Other lighting design credits are Embellishment (Voices of Women, 2023), Porpoise Pool (25A/Bite Productions, 2023), Voices of Joan (Whale Chorus Inc/BrandX, 2023), Plenty of Fish (Clockfire Theatre Company/BrandX, 2023) and Where Shall We Meet, Teen Angst, In Event of Moon Disaster, HIT Reset, Never Ever, To My Younger Self, and Return of Kings for Shopfront. 

Tyler is also one half of the all-female team behind Purple Tape Productions, delivering Tape Over, a month-long festival of new works by female and gender diverse creatives at KXT on Broadway and Expiration Date at Meraki Arts Bar in 2023.