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Transitions: making the move from director to Artistic Director

Running a major company is the goal of many a freelance director, but how do you get there from here?

1 Dec 2014

Richard Watts

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Image: Eamon Flack directing Belvoir’s The Glass Menagerie: photo by Brett Broadman

Eamon Flack’s recent appointment as Belvoir’s next Artistic Director surprised few in the industry, given his long involvement with the company.

‘I feel like I’ve been serving a sort of apprenticeship for this job, I suppose, ever since I started working under Neil [Armfield] in 2006. The first half of my time here I was not directing on the main stage; I was, I guess, in a funny way shadowing Neil and very much a part of the day to day artistic evolving of the company’s work,’ he told ArtsHub.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts