So you want my arts job: Producer, Perth Festival

If you're organised, a good listener, good humoured and comfortable sitting with fear, being a producer might be the job for you, according to Perth Festival's Anna Kosky.

Anna Kosky is an Arts Producer living and working on Noongar Boodjar. She is currently Producer at Perth Festival producing 2021 events including The Literature Weekend, A Day of Ideas and Hymns for End Times. Kosky has been instrumental in delivering some of Perth Festival’s most memorable and complex large-scale arts events, including The Giants (as Production Manager) and Boorna Waanginy: The Trees Speak in Kings Park 2017 and 2019 (Project Manager and Producer). She has also led teams to deliver Home (2016), Siren Song (2017) and Place des Anges (2012).

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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