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Performing Lines has a small team of permanent staff, headed by founding General Manager, Wendy Blacklock AM. Wendy and the team are supported by specialist technical production staff engaged on a project basis.

Wendy Blacklock

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 Stumm

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 Baylis

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.

Hannah Sanders

Hannah joined Performing Lines in July 2008 as the Administrator and in April 2010 moved into her current role. 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.

Larina Hansen

Larina joined Performing Lines in March 2010. Most recently she worked in Marketing & Administration for the Australian Dance Council and has also worked with the Royal Academy of Dance. After completing an Advanced Diploma in Tourism she worked on the 2000 Olympic Games and Torch Relay performance program throughout regional Australia. Subsequently she worked in events management for the next 10 years and held various positions which included managing specialised performance events in Australia and internationally. Larina has been closely involved with the performing arts from a young age and has an extensive dance background.

Mark Haslam

Mark has worked with Performing Lines since 2008 as production manager for Nigel Jamieson's Ngurru-milmarramiriw, Marregeku’s tour of Burning Daylight and erth’s The Nargun and the Stars. In his current role, Mark is responsible for the production and tours of a wide range of leading local and international dance and theatre companies. Also a director, lighting designer and educator, Mark has worked for The Sydney Theatre Company, Performance Space, Company B, the De Quincey Co and the Old Vic in London, amongst others. He has lit many of the world’s top DJs and electronic music producers including Sasha, Fatboy Slim, Carl Cox and the Happy Mondays as well as the late Alexander MacQueen for London Fashion Week. From 2006 - 2009 he lectured in production and design at the University of Wollongong.

Linda Luke
Over the past thirteen years, Linda has worked as a finance/accounts consultant for numerous arts organisations. Linda currently works with Performing Lines Ltd and Artful Management. Previous clients include Sydney Festival, PACT youth theatre, ReelDance Inc., Polyglot Puppet Theatre, Performance Space, CarriageWorks, Museums Australia, and marketing management firms DKM and DK Blue. Linda is also a dancer and performance maker and performs for De Quincey Company in Sydney.
Hannah Sanders

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.

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