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Exit interview: Virginia Lovett, Executive Director, MTC

After 10 years at Melbourne Theatre Company, co-CEO Virginia Lovett looks back on her tenure and considers the future.

21 Dec 2022 9:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Departing Executive Director/Co-CEO of the Melbourne Theatre Company, Virginia Lovett. Photo: Charlie Kinross.

Looking around a half-packed office as she readies herself to leave Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) after a decade as Executive Director/Co-CEO, Virginia Lovett has a first piece of advice to her yet-to-be-appointed successor: ‘Don’t be as messy as I am!’

Her decision to move on from Victoria’s state theatre company was in part motivated by the recognition that 10 years is a long time in the arts, she explains.

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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