Timothy Jones: What I’ve learned after 16 years at the Seymour Centre

Tim Jones reflects on the highlights and challenges of his 16 years at Seymour, and shares his firmly held beliefs in the multi-venue performing arts centre’s future.
Timothy Jones outside the Seymour Centre.

At the end of this week, Timothy ‘Tim’ Jones leaves the Seymour Centre at the University of Sydney, where he has served as Artistic Director and General Manager since January 2009.

His 16-year tenure at the multi-venue Seymour Centre has ensured the institution is an essential part of Sydney’s cultural landscape. One example of his transformative work was the creation of an annual arts education program, which engages over 35,000 school students annually, and has forged key partnerships with the University of Sydney’s faculties and schools through productions such as Made to Measure by Alana Valentine (Charles Perkins Centre) and Transparency by Suzie Miller (Sydney Law School).

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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