I bring two decades of experience across the arts and culture sector as a performer, producer, director 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 communities it serves.

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Before that, I directed, produced and performed internationally with companies including Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Griffin Theatre, Bell Shakespeare, Platoon Kunsthalle Berlin, Mullae Arts Space Seoul, The Basement Theatre Auckland and The Substation alongside extensive work in regional and remote Australia. My work has been recognised through Green Room Award and Fringe Festival nominations.

I co-founded She Said Theatre with playwright Seanna van Helten, producing and touring eight new Australian works nationally and internationally - including the acclaimed HART, created with Noongar artist Ian Michael.

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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, 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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Systemic change drives my strategic work - rethinking leadership, building programs with communities at the centre, and supporting organisations to become more equitable, inclusive and responsive. Alongside this, I'm an accredited meditation and yoga teacher, sharing mindfulness practices as a vital tool for sustaining leadership, creativity and renewal in any workplace.