Exit interview: Robert Love, Riverside Theatres

After 20 years at Riverside Theatres Parramatta, Love reflects on his career and considers his future.

After two decades in charge of Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres, Robert Love believes it’s time to shift his focus and look for new challenges.

A year later, he founded Toe Truck Theatre, which he managed and performed with for five years. This was followed by General Manager positions at the Seymour Centre, State Theatre Company of South Australia, and Sydney Theatre Company. After briefly dabbling in the world of TV and film with a role at the newly established Fox Studios in 1997, he returned to the theatre sector in late 2000 as Director of Riverside Theatres.

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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