DIRECTING
Maeve’s directing work has been seen nationally and internationally with new work POLES: The Science of Magnetic Attraction. Maeve directed and dramaturgically supported POLES in a development season at The Butterfly Club Melbourne (2021), followed by a critically acclaimed season at Adelaide Fringe, a sold out and award nominated Edinburgh Fringe season, and subsequent tour of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane Fringe Festivals (2022). Other credits include The Maltese Walter (Short & Sweet, Brisbane), her original play Ladies Write Letters of Lemony Love (Digital Melbourne Fringe) and most recently - devised physical theatre work Back Pocket (TART).
She was Assistant Director for Cygnets (The Liminal Space, Dir. Harry Haynes) and provided Movement Direction for experiemental poetry work Body Uncertain (Dir. Kate Cameron).
BACK POCKET
TART Theatre Collective, The Motley Bauhaus, Melbourne Fringe 2023
“heart, and intention, and authenticity - Hook draws this out from all her clown/sprites. ... This is real high art.”
WHAT DID SHE THINK?
POLES: THE SCIENCE OF MAGNETIC ATTRACTION
The Butterfly Club, Melbourne (Premiere season)
Edinburgh Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne Fringe, Sydney Fringe, Brisbane Fringe (Tour)
Long-listed for the BBC Writers Room Popcorn New Writing Awards at Edinburgh Fringe.
“...mesmerising from start to finish.”
THE ADVERTISER
"So true to the sex worker experience. Such an important show.”
AVALON HOPE
“if Phoebe Waller-Bridge was an Australian stripper...POLES is a one-woman show about a stripper that you can take your mum to.”
FLORA GOSLING, EDINBURGH FRINGE
GIRLS WITH A CURFEW
FRINGE BISCUIT
“Urgent and authentic”
“A tour-de-force!”
THEATRE TRAVELS
WEEKEND NOTES
LADIES WRITE LETTERS OF LEMONY LOVE
Melbourne Fringe 2020 (Digital)
Top Five Picks of the Fringe - Broadsheet Magazine
“Ladies Write Letters of Lemony Love is a rather surprising and thoughtful achievement... Maeve Hook has pulled off something quietly impressive. I hope we will hear more from her - and soon!”
STAGE WHISPERS
