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Co-Artistic Directors stepping back sooner than planned

An early transition for incoming Artistic Director Ruth Mackenzie CBE has been made possible by pandemic era circumstances.

25 Mar 2022 18:01

Richard Watts

All Arts

Adelaide Festival Co-Artistic Directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield AO. Photo: Andrew Beveridge.

An earlier than planned transition of the Artistic Directorship of Adelaide Festival has been facilitated by the unique challenges of COVID-era programming.

‘COVID has thrown up a whole raft of challenges, that’s not new information. But part of the process for us is having some really extraordinary works in the larder that were always going to be part of our festivals but we thought would be in either 2021 or 22,’ explained Co-Artistic Director Rachel Healy.

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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