Iain Grandage appointed as Perth Festival’s next Artistic Director

The award-winning and much respected composer will oversee the festival from 2020-2023, after Wendy Martin presents her final festival in 2019.

Iain Grandage: photo by Pia Johnson

Iain Grandage, whose compositions for theatre, opera and silent film have won multiple Helpmann Awards, has been announced as the new Artistic Director of Perth Festival.

Grandage, who was raised and educated in Western Australia and recently returned to the state after a decade in Melbourne, will succeed Wendy Martin in the role after she presents her fourth and final Festival in 2019.

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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