Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

Richard Watts's Latest Articles

Opinions & Analysis

20x20: Disturbing, not pleasing, should be art’s role

This week the theatre world farewelled a giant – Belgian festival director and curator Frie Leysen. We revisit her 2015…

Features

Recovery roadmap webinars: Mental health advisory

Co-presented with Creative Victoria, the last of our four-part webinar series looks at the importance of maintaining good mental health…

Features

Defunding fight gets personal as PACT fights back

A personal invitation to the NSW Minister for the Arts, Don Harwin, has been extended as PACT works to regain…

News

Bullying claims rejected as Rob Guest Endowment cancelled until 2022

The leadership committee has called out the ‘bullying and intimidation’ which they claim has taken place, while the semi-finalists say…

Career Advice

Top 3 tips for emerging arts managers (from the archives)

With many in the sector working in administrative roles, we’ve asked arts leaders from Darwin to Hobart and Perth to…

Features

Communication in COVID and beyond

Co-presented by ArtsHub and Creative Victoria, the third in our Recovery Roadmap Webinars discussed the importance of personalised communication, how…

News

Vale Aidan Fennessy

The playwright, director, dramaturg and much-loved member of the Australian theatre community died on Sunday, aged 53.

Features

Why we need the joy that art provides

The 2020 Brisbane Festival aims to 'surprise and delight' its audience, says Artistic Director Louise Bezzina.

Career Advice

Essential skills of a great arts administrator (from the archives)

Facilitation and strategy, nurturing artists' ideas, and examining challenges at a macro and micro level simultaneously: arts administrators are the…

News

Cabaret, theatre and a new Fringe: Brisbane’s arts sector fights back after COVID

Queensland Theatre is rehearsing its first production since March, while plans for the latest Queensland Cabaret Festival and a new…

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