So you want my arts job: Peak Body Executive Director

Katherine Connor from PAC Australia talks us through her role and the demands of an average week.
A white woman with dark, shoulder-length hair and wearing a dark dress and diamond-shaped earrings smiles at the camera.

Katherine Connor is the Executive Director of PAC Australia, delivering the organisation’s sector development, capacity building and advocacy priorities.

She has worked as a performing arts presenter, a producer and an arts planning consultant in Australia for 25 years and was previously a director at a venue management and consulting firm, where she was also a venue manager and a project director, delivering business plans, feasibility studies and project briefs, as well as establishing operations at several local government and privately managed venues across Australia.

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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