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Exit interview: Jenny Ryssenbeek, ex-Executive Director, VAPAC

After 15 years as Executive Director of the Victorian Association of Performing Arts Centres, Ryssenbeek has stepped across into a part time role with the organisation.

24 Nov 2021 9:28

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Jenny Ryssenbeek has enormous admiration for her colleagues, and enormous respect for the work of Victoria’s network of performing arts centres. Image supplied.

A combination of personal reasons and the demands of a changing industry environment have led to Jenny Ryssenbeek stepping down as Executive Director of the Victorian Association of Performing Arts Centres (VAPAC) after 15 years in the role.

Ryssenbeek’s tenure as Executive Director of VAPAC – the peak body for performing arts centres in Victoria and with over 65 member venues, some based in Tasmania – began in 2006.

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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