Krystalla Pearce, the new artistic director and CEO of St Kilda institution Theatre Works, had her stage awakening at around five years old.
She wound up at the UN in New York, working for the Australian government. ‘Which I hated,’ Pearce says. ‘I was really disillusioned. I think that peacekeeping is more feasible, actually, through art than that body. But I fell in love with the city, and it was the driver to return to theatre as a career.’
