Exit interview: Tim Munro, Theatre Royal, Hobart

After 17 years as CEO of Australia’s oldest continually operating theatre, Tim Munro is moving on. He reflects on his time with the theatre and looks to its future.

After 26 years at Hobart’s ‘grand yet intimate’ Theatre Royal, including 17 years as CEO, Tim Munro has decided it’s time to move on.

‘We’ve come from being a broke, small arts organisation that thought it was all about an old building, to having a diverse audience and a building project that’s almost complete … The organisation is stable, the program is diverse and it’s now focusing more on Tasmanian work and artists,’ he said.

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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