Eugene Lynch is a director of theatre and opera.

Upcoming engagements include Maid Made Boss (La Serva Padrona) with Pinchgut Opera in 2025. He will also be directing IRL by Lewis Treston at KXT on Broadway in Sydney (presented by The Other Theatre in association with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company). Eugene is currently developing a new opera work, The Hairy Ape, composed by William Gardiner with a libretto by Julian Larnach (supported by Create NSW & Creative Australia). He will be the Associate Director on La Cenerentola for Opera Queensland in March 2025.

Eugene is currently a 2024-2025 Young Artist with Opera Queensland. Eugene’s directorial credits include: The Pigeons by David Gieselman; Georg Kaiser’s From Morning to Midnight (The Other Theatre), Beckett’s Not I; Graeme Koehne and Louis Nowra’s Love Burns, Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, Shakespeare’s Richard II, Mike Bartlett’s Cock (co-production with Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and Brand X) and the Australian premiere of Marius von Mayenburg’s The Dog, The Night and The Knife. He has also directed Suor Angelica with Pacific Opera.

Eugene’s Assistant and Associate Director credits include: Platée (Pinchgut Opera, dir. Neil Armfield); The Golden Cockerel (Adelaide Festival, dir. Barrie Kosky); TheTurn of the Screw and Richard Meale’s Voss (State Opera South Australia, dir. Stuart Maunder); Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera Queensland, dir. Patrick Nolan); Hamlet (Opera Australia, dir. Neil Armfield); and Julius Caesar (Pinchgut Opera, dir. Neil Armfield).