On the move: latest arts sector appointments

This week's Australian arts sector appointments include Rachel Perkins, who joins Screen Australia as Director of First Nations Strategy, and Clare McKenzie, the new CEO of Melbourne Art Foundation.
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Arena Theatre Company, Australia’s longest-running professional theatre company for young audiences, has appointed Harriet Devlin as Creative Producer, commencing 2 March.

Devlin brings exceptional credentials to the role, having spent the past three years as Artist Development Manager and Producer at Midsumma Festival, where she curated the landmark 2025 Signature Program Queer Imaginings – which returned all-ages programming for children and families to the festival – and also commissioned multiple new works including Ben MacEllen’s The Placeholder, which premiered at fortyfivedownstairs in 2026.

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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 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