Queensland Theatre launches 2025 season with AD’s role still vacant

A triumvirate of Associate Artistic Directors have programmed the company’s 2025 season, which includes two world premieres of very local stories.
A promotional image for Queensland Theatre's 2025 production 'Malacañang Made Us'. A young Filipino person in ragged shorts, thongs and a mesh t-shirt reclines in an ornate gold and velvet throne.

Without an Artistic Director since the unexpected departure of Lee Lewis in March this year (recruitment for the position is now underway with the assistance of REA Consulting), Queensland Theatre‘s 2025 season has instead been programmed by a creative triumvirate.

Associate Artistic Director (Programming) Daniel Evans, Associate Artistic Director (Education and Youth) Fiona MacDonald and Associate Artistic Director (First Nations) Isaac Drandic – whose position title was recently changed to Head of First Nations Theatre – have collectively programmed the mainstage season, Evans tells ArtsHub.

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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