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So you want my arts job: Venue Technical Manager

If you possess a broad range of technical skills, are calm under pressure and can solve problems creatively, then being a venue and technical manage may be the role for you.

28 Oct 2024 9:00

Richard Watts

Shane Grant, La Mama Theatre’s acting Venue Technical Manager, discusses his role for the So you want my arts job? series. A dark-haired, middle-aged and fair-skinned man with a greying beard and glasses smiles for the camera against a green background.

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Shane Grant, La Mama Theatre’s acting Venue Technical Manager. Photo: Supplied.

Shane Grant is La Mama Theatre’s acting Venue Technical Manager and an experienced lighting designer. He has been acknowledged as an ‘absolute genius’ (Theatre People, 30 July 2016) for his lighting design of Sarah Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis, and earned a Bachelor of Arts (Performing Arts) from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne some time ago.

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Richard Watts

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