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The Board of Directors controls the business of the company and acts to promote its objects and interests.
Specifically, the Board of Directors is responsible for:
- the financial accountability of the company
- fundraising from the private sector
- government liaison
- appointing the General Manager and the Director
- policy making
- fundraising for, and awarding student scholarships
- discipline reviews
- approving academic awards under the seal of the National Institute of Dramatic Art
- the maintenance and enhancement of the capital assets of the Institute
- overseeing compliance with health and safety legislation and regulations.
The Board of Directors comprises:
Mr Malcolm Long (Chairman)
Ms Virginia Braden OAM
Mr Bruce Cutler
Mr Kim Dalton OAM
Professor Anthony Dooley (University of New South Wales nominee)
Ms Judith Isherwood
Mr Tom Jeffrey AM (Chairman, Board of Studies)
Mr Garry McQuinn
Professor Elizabeth More AM
Mr Jim Moser
Ms Pamela Rabe
Mr Leslie Walford AM (Seaborn, Broughton and Walford Foundation nominee)
Ms Lynne Williams (Director/CEO, ex officio)
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Company Secretary: Julia Selby
Board Member Biographies
Malcolm Long
Malcolm Long, Chairman of the NIDA Board of Directors is a Director of the communications infrastructure provider Broadcast Australia Pty Ltd and is Chairman of the Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation. He has been a Member of the Australian Communications and Media Authority and is a former Director of Pan TV Limited, the operator of the ‘World Movies’ Subscription TV Channel. Mr Long was the Director/CEO of the Australian Film Television and Radio School from 2003 - 2007. From 1993-98 Mr Long was Managing Director of SBS Corporation, Australia's national multicultural broadcaster. Prior to this he was Deputy Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and before that Director of ABC Radio. He has also been a consultant working in the area of media and communications business strategy and policy development. His clients have included major communications companies and media enterprises and Commonwealth and State government departments. Mr Long is a former Chairman of the London-based International Institute of Communications and a former President of the Australian Museum in Sydney. He has spoken and written widely on the importance of cultural industries and the significance of new communications technologies on social and cultural development.
Virginia Braden OAM
Virginia Braden has worked for over 30 years in the Arts, 29 years of which were running her firm, Arts Management Pty Ltd 1979-2008. Arts Management combined projects in all fields of the arts with the personal management of classical music performers and creative artists. With over 150 clients and projects such as administering the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Portia Geach Portrait Prize for Women as well as dance, theatre and visual arts projects, her experience in the Arts nationally and internationally has had a broad span. Throughout this period she has pursued her interest in developing the profession of arts management by giving professional development lectures and seminars to students at the Australian National Academy and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and mentoring a number of young arts managers.
She was Chairman of the UK based International Artist Managers’ Association (IAMA) from 2000-2003, having previously served as a Board member and Deputy Chairman for a number of years. She has represented IAMA at a number of meetings around the world most recently AAPPAC in Seoul 2008 and in Shanghai in 2009. She has served on a number of boards including the Australian Music Centre, the Seymour Group, Craft Australia, and The Song Company. She is currently a member of the board of Opera Australia. She is an honorary life member of IAMA and the Australian Music Centre.
Bruce Cutler
Bruce Cutler is a former Managing Partner at the law firm, Freehills and is a Director of the Board of the Law Council of Australia, a Director of OzHarvest Limited and a Member of the Australian and International Councils of the international business school and research institution, INSEAD. Bruce has a deep interest and understanding of the arts and arts organisations.
Kim Dalton OAM
Kim is the Director of ABC Television. He has worked in the Australian and international film and television industry since 1973. He has a BA with a major in Drama from the Flinders University of South Australia and a Diploma in Arts Administration from the City University of London.
Kim has been a practitioner and program maker producing a number of award wining television dramas and documentaries including two major television miniseries, In Between for SBS TV and The Magistrate for ABC TV. As an investment manager at the Australian Film Finance Corporation in the early ‘90s he was involved in the financing of numerous projects across documentaries, television drama and feature films including the hugely successful Muriel’s Wedding and Priscilla.
In 1992 Kim joined Beyond International, one of Australia’s leading international film and television companies, and worked on the international financing, production and distribution of a large slate of television and feature films.
From 1999, as Chief Executive of the Australian Film Commission, Kim was responsible for overhauling its development programs, expanding its screen culture programs and ensuring the agency’s and industry’s engagement with digital and online technology, production and distribution. As CEO Kim led the policy debate around Australian content on television and was a spokesperson for the industry and a key advisor to government on the audio visual industries during negotiations on the Aust/US Free Trade Agreement.
Since joining the ABC as Director of TV in 2006 Kim has made a major contribution to the policy debate around Australian content and the role of the public broadcaster in the digital era. Under Kim’s leadership ABC TV has gone from being a single linear channel to delivering its content across multiple digital channels – ABC1, ABC2, ABCforKids on 2, ABC3 and an imminent 24 hours news channel – and multiple platforms including www, VOD, iView and mobile.
In 2009 the ABC received a significant increase in its budget in order to establish its dedicated digital children’s channel and to increase its output of Australian drama.
In 2007 Kim was awarded an OAM for service to the film and television industry in policy, in assistance to Indigenous producers and in the promotion of emerging visual technology.
Kim is the Chair of Freeview, the organisation established by Australian free-to-air broadcasters to promote and brand the digital free-to-air platform. In 2009 Kim was re-appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs as a Board member of the Australia Korea Foundation.
Professor Anthony Dooley
Anthony Dooley represents UNSW on the NIDA Board of Directors. He is Professor of Mathematics at UNSW, currently Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, and was the President of the UNSW Academic Board from 2004 to 2008. Professor Dooley completed his PhD in Mathematics at the Institute of Advanced Studies, ANU and was appointed to UNSW in 1980. He was awarded a Japan-Australia Foundation Fellowship in 2000, and has held visiting appointments at many overseas universities. He has received funding from the Australian Research Council grants schemes totalling some $2M for the decade 2000-2009, and is a Principal Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence in Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems. Professor Dooley has been a member of the ARC Expert Advisory Committee on Mathematics, Information and Communication Sciences, and a member of the New Zealand PBRF External Review Committee. He is also a member of the British EPSRC Review College. Professor Dooley has a strong interest in the performing arts.
Judith Isherwood
Judith Isherwood is currently the Chief Executive of The Arts Centre, Melbourne, a post she took up in late 2009 following nearly 7 years working the UK. Judith was the inaugural Chief Executive of the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, overseeing both the construction and first five years of operation of this major new UK arts centre. Her interest in the role of performing arts centres developed during her time as Director of Performing Arts at the Sydney Opera House. Her time there included the period when Sydney hosted the 2000 Olympic Games, during which the Sydney Opera House not only played host to the Olympic Cultural Festival, but was also the site of a number of sporting events. Judith’s career in the performing arts developed following her graduation from NIDA in Technical Production. She has worked for a wide range of companies and organisations throughout Australia. She has a particular interest in developing the next generation of arts professionals and was a Board member of the UK’s Creative & Cultural Skills Council for a number of years. In 2009 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the University of Wales Institute for outstanding and distinguished service to the university and the community at large.
Tom Jeffrey AM
Tom Jeffrey AM, is Director, Vanguard Productions Pty Ltd, a film production company. He has extensive experience in the Australian film and television industry covering production, training, management, policy, advocacy, consultancy and international relations. His credits include award-winning movies, television drama and current affairs, documentary and children's programs. Mr Jeffrey has served on a wide range of industry organisations and government bodies, including Chairman, Film, Radio and Television Board of the Australia Council; Chairman of the Australian Film and Television School; Board member of the Australian Children’s Television Foundation and President of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA). He was also a founding director of the Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council (IBSA). In April 2004, he was appointed Adjunct Professional Associate of the University of Canberra’s School of Creative Communication, a post he held for two years. In 2006, he received the Australian Screen Directors Association’s Accreditation Award for Excellence in Direction. Mr Jeffrey edited Film Business – A Handbook for Producers, Allen and Unwin, 2006, currently in its third edition.
Garry McQuinn
Garry McQuinn is Managing Director of Back Row Productions, which has offices in Sydney and London. The company’s acclaimed production of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, has been performed in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland and London, and will open on Broadway early in 2011. Back Row has presented a a range of international touring productions including Tap Dogs, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, Slava’s Snowshow, Mum’s the Word, Gumboots, Shaolin Monks of China, Circus Oz, Fosse, and Jerry Seinfeld’s one-man show in Reykjavik and Stockholm. Prior to joining Back Row Productions Mr McQuinn ran his own company, Stage Business, a production company specialising in mounting large-scale musicals such as Beauty and the Beast, Showboat, and The Boy from Oz. For nine years prior to this he was Head of the Technical Production course at NIDA, from which he had previously graduated. Following graduation he spent four years with the Melbourne Theatre Company’s stage management team. Mr McQuinn then worked on the West End and throughout the United Kingdom before returning to Australia and the next stage of his career, as director, tour manager, production manager and company manager on a number of national commercial tours.
Professor Elizabeth More AM
Elizabeth More is Foundation Dean, Faculty of Business, Australian Catholic University. Prior to this appointment, she was Professor in Management, Director of Higher Degree Research and Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Leadership at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM). Prior to this Professor More was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Canberra and thereafter at Macquarie University, following her role as Director of the Graduate School of Management, Chair of Academic Senate at Macquarie University and Managing Director of MGSM Pty Ltd. Professor More is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, and of the Australian Communication Association. She also has extensive experience in consulting to both private and public sector organizations and, over the past decade, has been called upon regularly for expert media comment on issues related to management practice and education. Before becoming a University academic, she worked as a classical ballet dancer in theatre and television, and in the advertising industry. Professor More is also a member of the Boards of the Sydney Dance Company and of the Sydney Film School. She specialised in Drama in her undergraduate degree, completed a PhD in nineteenth century English drama and also has postgraduate qualifications in management and law.
Jim Moser
Jim Moser CEO of Clemenger Group New Zealand. Prior to his arrival in New Zealand in October 2008, Mr Moser spent nine years as Managing Director/CEO of Clemenger BBDO Sydney. During his leadership of Clemenger BBDO Sydney, he transformed the agency into a dominant market leader. Over the past decade, Clemenger BBDO Sydney won more AFA Advertising Effectiveness Awards (now Effies) than any other agency in Australia. Clemenger BBDO Sydney was awarded both the B&T National Agency of the Year and AdNews National Agency of the Year in 2004 as well as AdNews NSW Agency of the Year in 2006. Clemenger BBDO Sydney won the coveted AdNews Best Campaign of the Year for 2007 – the RTA Pinkie campaign for anti-speeding. Prior to his arrival in Australia, Mr Moser spent seven years with BBDO Europe. His last assignment in Europe was CEO of BBDO Italy based in Milan. Before Italy, Jim was CEO of BBDO Warsaw Group in Poland, where he is highly regarded for his performance in building the Agency to the number two position in the market from a relatively unknown 13th ranked outsider. An MBA graduate of the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Mr Moser has also worked in New York and Chicago for DMB&B. He has experience on major global brands in Europe, North America and Asia.
Pamela Rabe
Pamela Rabe is an actor who has performed extensively as a professional artist in film, television, radio and in over 75 stage productions across Australia and North America. She has received numerous accolades for her work including Australian Film Institute, “Mo”, Variety Club, Sydney Theatre Critics, and Melbourne Green Room Awards. Ms Rabe was a founding member of the Sydney Theatre Company’s Actors Company ensemble from 2006 to 2009. For the Sydney Theatre Company, she directed Elling in 2009 and The Serpent’s Teeth : Citizens in 2008. Ms Rabe served on the board of the Australian Film Institute from 1999-2002.
Leslie Walford AM
Leslie Walford is the nominee of the Seaborn, Walford, Broughton Foundation on the NIDA Board of Directors. A graduate of Oxford University, Mr Walford studied interior design in Paris. After returning to Australia, he had a distinguished career as an interior designer and antique dealer in Australia, as well as in Europe and South East Asia. He was several times National President of the Society of Interior Designers of Australia, and eventually appointed to the Hall of Fame of the Design Institute of Australia. For 33 years he served as a member of the Council of the Art Gallery Society of NSW. He was also a member of the Board of Opera Foundation Australia. Mr Walford is the President and Director of the Seaborn, Broughton and Walford Foundation.
Lynne Williams
In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Lynne Williams has developed a significant breadth of arts practice and cultural entrepreneurship across not-for profit, government and commercial sectors.
Lynne was appointed Director/CEO of NIDA in May 2008 and since her appointment has been instrumental in enriching course offerings as well as developing a range of new industry partnerships and initiatives. Lynne is currently developing a concept for enhanced post graduate study and practice-based research within a Centre for Contemporary Performance Practice.
Prior to NIDA, Lynne held many arts and cultural leadership positions in the UK where she was resident for 21 years. She managed Culture, Ceremonies and Education for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG), following her contribution to London 2012’s successful Olympic Bid as a Cultural Advisor/Creative Producer.
Lynne was also CEO of Cardiff 2008, the company bidding for Cardiff to be European Capital of Culture in 2008. She was responsible for developing an overarching cultural policy and strategy and leading a team in a bid on behalf of the whole of Wales. During the two years of the bidding process she led a high level stakeholders’ group and initiated over 300 projects across the country, 56 of them with international partners. She collaborated on impact studies of the bid and devised a long term business plan to prepare the city of Cardiff for cultural regeneration.
Her experience in performing arts began in Australia where she studied and worked as a professional singer specialising in contemporary music and music theatre and where she was instrumental in setting up a new Music Theatre Company for the Conservatorium of Music in Wollongong and a new Creative Arts faculty for the University of Wollongong. For five years at the university, she lectured in Education and then Performing Arts.
On moving to the UK in 1985, she extended her arts experience through her work as Director of Performing Arts for the East of England and as Artistic Director/CEO of the Eastern Touring Agency, an arts and audience development agency set up in association with the Arts Council of England, local authorities and international artists and promoters to pioneer new ways of commissioning, developing, producing, touring and supporting new work across all performing art forms.
As Interim CEO of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, she developed an organisational strategy and a more integrated approach to arts programming and management within the Institute, bringing together industry partners to explore synergies and plan collaboratively.
She expanded her own arts practice by writing opera libretti with a number of British composers. Her last piece was commissioned by English National Opera Studio and enjoyed London performances and a national tour. She also wrote music programs and presented for BBC Radio.
Lynne has a deep commitment to arts education and increased public access and has developed and promoted work across the full spectrum of the arts – from high art to popular culture. She served on the Arts Council England Touring Panel for many years and advised on a number of national audience development initiatives as well as being an Arts Council England advisor for contemporary music, opera, theatre and dance.
Lynne has been a chair and a board member of many arts companies including a foundation member of the board of Arts and Kids (a division of Arts and Business UK) and a member of the Fellowship Programme Committee for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). As an advocate for the performing arts, Lynne has made many international presentations to key opinion formers and decision-makers.
Lynne has a DSCM (Sydney Conservatorium of Music), an MA (Hons) (University of Wollongong) and in 1998, she was awarded an honorary degree of Master of Letters by De Montfort University for her contributions to the arts and arts education. She has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the United Kingdom.
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