I bring two decades of experience across the arts and culture sector as a performer, director, producer and CEO. Most recently, I led Western Edge - one of Australia's leading youth arts organisations-  through the largest transformation in its history: tripling income, securing national funding for the first time, growing the team, and diversifying leadership, governance and the artists we worked with so that the organisation reflected the multicultural communities it serves.

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Before that, I directed, produced and performed with companies including Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Griffin Theatre, Bell Shakespeare, LaBoite Theatre, Platoon Kunsthalle Berlin, Mullae Arts Space Seoul, The Basement Theatre Auckland, Darwin Festival, The Blue Room, Tandanya and The Substation alongside extensive work in regional and remote Australia and internationally. I also co-founded She Said Theatre with playwright Seanna van Helten, producing and touring eight new Australian works across Australia and beyond, including the acclaimed HART - created with Noongar artist Ian Michael and three Stolen Generations survivors, a one-man verbatim play that toured for four years around Australia and New Zealand.

 

My work has been recognised through Green Room and Fringe Festival nominations and wins. Across all of it, my practice has been rooted in social justice, new writing and experimental form, working with underrepresented artists and communities to make work that wouldn't otherwise exist.

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I hold a BA from the University of Queensland, a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts and Cultural Management from the University of Melbourne, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Directing for Performance from the Victorian College of the Arts, where I received the Barbara Manning Scholarship for Excellence and the Global Atelier Scholarship for Overseas Travel. I've been selected for the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Melbourne Festival's Director's Lab, Melbourne Theatre Company's Women in Theatre Program, the Betty Amsden Foundation Leadership Development Award, BDO Australia's Business Growth Program and Melbourne Business School's Executive Leadership Program.

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Leading organisations, making art and building programs from the ground up has shaped everything I believe good strategy looks like: imaginative, relational, community-centred, and genuinely oriented toward equity. It's also shown me, repeatedly, and occasionally the hard way, that doing this work well requires tending to yourself. That's what brought me to yoga and meditation, and why I don't keep it separate from the rest of what I do.