Over two decades in the arts and culture sector, I have worked as a performer, director, producer and CEO. Most recently I led Western Edge, a youth arts company in Melbourne's culturally diverse and under-serviced Western suburbs, through the most significant transformation in its history: tripling its income, securing national funding for the first time, and broadening its team, leadership, governance and artists so the organisation came to reflect 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, Brisbane Powerhouse, Platoon Kunsthalle, Mullae Arts Space, The Basement Theatre, Darwin and Brisbane Festivals, The Blue Room, Footscray Community Arts and The Substation alongside extensive work in regional and remote Australia. Alongside my friend and collaborator Seanna van Helten, I co-founded She Said Theatre, an independent theatre company prioritising roles for women and other underrepresented artists on and off the stage. We produced and toured eight new Australian works across Australia and NZ, including the acclaimed HART - created with Noongar artist Ian Michael and three Stolen Generations survivors - a one-man verbatim play that won numerous awards and toured for four years.

 

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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Making art, leading organisations and building programs from the ground up shapes what I believe good strategy looks like: imaginative, relational, community-centred, and always oriented toward equity. It's also shown me, the hard way, that doing this work well requires tending to yourself. That's what brought me to yoga and meditation, and why it's foundational to everything I do.