Making a big splash with Singin’ in the Rain

A collaboration between Prospero Arts and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre embodies a future direction for the performing arts in Brisbane.

Hayley Johnson is brim full of enthusiasm as she talks animatedly about her latest venture, the newly formed theatre production company, Prospero Arts. 

She told ArtsHub: ‘Being part of a close family network, I always wanted to come back to Brisbane and be able to share what I had learnt with my family and more broadly in the community. I had toyed with the idea of producing and thought that would also allow me to have more control over my working life.’

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Suzannah Conway is an experienced arts administrator, having been CEO of Opera Queensland, the Brisbane Riverfestival and the Centenary of Federation celebrations for Queensland. She is a freelance arts writer and has been writing reviews and articles for over 20 years, regularly reviewing classical music, opera and musical theatre in particular for The Australian and Limelight magazine as well as other journals. Most recently she was Arts Hub's Brisbane-based Arts Feature Writer.