So you want my arts job: Touring Manager

If you have an affinity for logistics and a love of live music, working as an artist touring manager may be the career for you.

Dom Miller is an artist manager, event programmer and touring manager at Sunroom alongside his business partner, Ruby-Jean McCabe. Miller and McCabe currently co-manage Asha Jefferies, Bugs, Flamingo Blonde, Hope D, Melaleuca, VOIID and Zheani. They also program the BIGSOUND showcase festival, QAGOMA Up Late, the 1400-capacity venue Kingscliff Beach Hotel on the northern NSW coast, and previously Valley Fiesta and Big Summer Block Party.

Two artists managed by Dom Miller, Safety Club and Jesswar, are playing as part of Set Roulette on Saturday 5 August at Open Season 2023.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former 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 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts