Melbourne Festival announces new Artistic Director

Josephine Ridge's replacement will commence work in April, to begin programming the 2016 Melbourne Festival.
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Jonathan Holloway has been announced as the new Artistic Director of the Melbourne Festival. He will present his first Festival program in 2016.

A theatre director, playwright, dramaturg, programmer and festival director, Holloway has been Artistic Director of the Perth International Arts Festival since 2012. Between 500,000 and one million people have engaged with the Festival each year during his time in Perth, which has seen Holloway commission and present such artists as Ennio Morricone, the English National Opera, Lucinda Childs Dance Company, Philip Glass and The Berliner Ensemble.

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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