Meet Dark Mofo’s new Artistic Director

Chris Twite, an an experienced creative director, curator and producer, will present his first Dark Mofo in 2024.

‘What Hobart and greater Tasmania have in spades is a very strong creative community in terms of practitioners, but also in terms of participants and viewers… There is just a wealth of talent that exists here and the people are so open to engaging with cutting edge experimental art,’ says Chris Twite, the newly appointed Artistic Director of winter festival Dark Mofo.

Twite, an experienced creative director, curator and producer, will present his first Dark Mofo program in 2024 and has been appointed for a three-year term.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts