Wendy spent a large part of her life as a performer working in radio, stage and television. For the last 25 years she has devoted her energy to developing, producing and touring Australian artists and small companies. To do this she created an Australian Content Department at the AETT, and this then became Performing Lines. Wendy has won many awards for her services to the arts and these include an Order of Australia, a James Cassius Award and a Drovers’ Touring Legend from the APACA presenters. More satisfying is the number of performances she has organised for Australian artists both nationally and internationally.

Harley joined Performing Lines in 2005. Previously, he worked with the Sidney Myer Award-winning company Urban Theatre Projects from 1995 to 2003, as Company Manager and then Executive Producer, producing more than 20 shows including an Adelaide Festival commission, The Longest Night, and numerous large scale site-specific events on sites such as carparks, public plazas, residential streets and the Sydney rail system. In 2004 Harley was Acting General Manager of Legs on the Wall, and in 2003-4 he freelanced for various arts companies and designed and taught a Theatre Arts Administration subject at University of Western Sydney. From 1984 to 1993, he worked as a radio producer and journalist for Triple J, ABC Radio National and 4ZZZ-FM. He has been a member of the Arts NSW Theatre Committee, and the Chair of PACT Youth Theatre.

John has worked in theatre as performer, dramaturg, manager and director since the late 1970s. He was manager of the One Extra Dance Company (1982-86) as well as a founding coordinator of Performance Space (1983-84) and later its chair (1992-93).
In 1986 he co-founded the Sydney Front, a contemporary performance company that created a seminal body of work which asked anew some of the basic questions about performance: why does an audience like to watch; what does the performer want from the spectator; where precisely is the pleasure in this transaction. Works included The Pornography of Performance (1989), Don Juan (1990), First and Last Warning (1991) and Passion (1993). The company also toured extensively in Europe.
John was artistic director of Urban Theatre Projects from 1997 to 2000. Building on the company’s strengths (its community base, its location in western Sydney), he oversaw the emergence of a new hybrid between community cultural development practice and contemporary performance, resulting in works such as TrackWork (1997), a performance event taking place over Sydney’s rail network, and Subtopia (1999), a feast of self-chosen cultural identities that inhabited found spaces in Bankstown.
From 2001 to 2009, John was first manager then director of theatre at the Australia Council for the Arts.

Originally from WA, Kar joined Performing Lines in April 2007. Previously Kar was the company manager, producer and publicist for the Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre Company (TRS) at The Old Fitzroy Theatre in Sydney from 2002 – 2007. In this time she produced Vertigo and the Virginia (Sven Swenson), Hilt (Jane Bodie), This Blasted Earth (Toby Schmitz/Travis Cotton/Tim Minchin), Cu*t Pi (Toby Schmitz), Thrall (Sue Smith) and Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset (Stephen Carleton) for TRS. Kar also worked as publicist on these shows and many more including Unspoken (Rebecca Clarke), Dealer Choice (Albedo Productions) and Cross Sections (TRS). Kar spent 18 months on the board of the Australian National Playwrights Centre until its cessation in 2006. She also was on the selection committee for Critical Stages from its inception.

Hannah joined Performing Lines in July 2008. A graduate of Theatre/Media, Charles Sturt University, she has a broad background in the arts, working across Australia in a variety of roles which includes Administration Officer for Regional Arts NSW and more recently as touring Assistant Stage Manager for Bangarra Dance Theatre. In 2006 Hannah worked with The Famous Spiegletent for the Sydney Festival, returning to the festival in 2007 as the Programming Assistant. Her love for physical theatre and dance has also led her overseas, working at Assembly Aurora Nova, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007.

Viv joined Performing Lines in October 2009. She has most recently been the Artistic Associate and Program Manager of Darwin Festival, and enjoyed three festivals (2007 – 2009) in the tropics. For Darwin Festival Viv produced and programmed a wide range of Australian and international work, with a focus on Indigenous artists and work from the Asian region. Prior to Darwin Festival, she was an Assistant Producer at Sydney Opera House, presenting the work of many major international and Australian companies, and working on acclaimed new productions such as Nigel Jamison’s Honour Bound and Meryl Tankard’s Kaidan. She has also held various positions in the programming department of Sydney Festival, including managing the programming and producing many elements of the inaugural Festival First Night in 2008. Prior to moving into producing, Viv was a stage manager for many of Australia’s leading arts companies. She is a graduate of NIDA’s Production course and is currently working towards her Masters in Arts Management through the University of South Australia.