Monkey Baa: Eva Di Cesare to step down at the end of 2027

Monkey Baa Theatre co-founder and Artistic Director Eva Di Cesare reflects on her 29-year tenure to date.
Eva Di Cesare, an older woman with dark, greying, shoulder length hair, surrounded by performers and characters from Monkey Baa's many productions. Eva wears a green shirt and black pants, and sits with her legs crossed. The people around her wear black 'Monkey Baa' t-shirts and hold an array of puppets including an emu, a wombat and a blue sheep.

Eva Di Cesare, the Artistic Director and co-founder of pioneering theatre for young audiences company Monkey Baa, today (29 June) announced she will step down from her role at the end of 2027, the company’s 30th year.

Leaving at the end of 2027 will ‘give [me] enough time to finish off my projects,’ she continues. ‘I’ve got another one that’s kind of in the making with a collaborator, another artist, so that I can then hand over the directing of that work to him – and I just think slow is better than fast.’

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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