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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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