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Back to Back receives 2024 Golden Lion Award for theatre

Venice Biennale has presented its Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre to the internationally acclaimed Australian company.

15 Feb 2024 0:00

Richard Watts

Two women sit in chairs on a bare stage facing one another. A man stands between them with a boom microphone.

Performing Arts

A scene from Back to Back’s 2021 season of ‘Food Court’. Photo: Jeff Busby.

Geelong-based company Back to Back Theatre has been honoured with the Venice Biennale’s 2024 Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre.

One of the world’s most significant cultural events, the Venice Biennale bestows its most prestigious honour, the Golden Lion, annually to recipients in the fields of cinema, theatre, dance and music.

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Richard Watts

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