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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)
Mr John Clark AM
Professor Anthony Dooley (University of New South Wales nominee)
Mr Tom Jeffrey AM (Chairman, Board of Studies)
Mr Garry McQuinn
Professor Elizabeth More AM
Mr Jim Moser
Ms Jeni O'Dowd
Mr Christopher Puplick AM
Ms Pamela Rabe
Mr Leslie Walford AM (Seaborn, Broughton and Walford Foundation nominee)
Ms Lynne Williams (Director/CEO, ex officio)
Dr Bill Winspear
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Company Secretary: Julia Selby
Board Member Biographies
Malcolm Long
Malcolm Long, Chairman of the NIDA Board of Directors is a Member of the Australian Communications and Media Authority and a 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.
John Clark AM
John Clark was the Director of NIDA from 1969-2004. He became a non-executive Director of NIDA in 2006. Mr Clark has directed over 100 play productions for NIDA, the Old Tote, Jane Street and the Sydney Theatre Company, which he established in 1969 together with Elizabeth Butcher. He has taught and directed plays for the National School of Drama in New Delhi, The University of California at San Diego, Nanyang and Practice Theatre Schools in Singapore, the Shanghai Theatre Academy, the ITI in Korea and in 2009, a highly successful production of Hamlet for the Old Nick Theatre Company in Hobart. John has written an informal history of NIDA, as well as Playing with Shakespeare, a theatrical and imaginative approach to the plays intended for teachers. In 1981, John Clark became a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to the theatre. He was awarded a Doctor of Letters by the University of Tasmania, an Honorary MA by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, a Helpmann Lifetime Achievement Award by the Australian Entertainment Industry and he was recognized in 2004 by Independent Film Australia as a Living Legend.
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.
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 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.
Jeni O’Dowd
Jeni O’Dowd has been a journalist for more than 20 years. She is presently Group Editorial Innovations Manager for News Ltd. Before that, Ms O’Dowd was editor of Australia’s biggest selling newspaper, The Sunday Telegraph, for seven years, during which time she created the popular body+soul lift out which now runs nationally. She also held prominent positions on The Australian newspaper before moving to The Sunday Telegraph in 1998. As a journalist with News Ltd, Ms O’Dowd covered NSW and Federal politics before moving into management. Jeni is married with three children.
Christopher Puplick AM
Christopher Puplick is the Chairman of the National Film and Sound Archive. He is also a current member of the Theatre Board of the Australia Council. Mr Puplick is a consultant and non-executive Chairman of Convenience Advertising Group of Companies and Principal of Issus Solutions Pty Ltd. He has had a long involvement in the performing arts, dance and film industries and was a Senator for NSW (1978-81 and 1984-90) and Shadow Minister for the Arts from 1987 to 1990. Chris has served as Deputy Chair and Chair of the Griffin Theatre Company, Chair of the Freeland Dance Company and Patron of Young At ‘Arts Theatre Company. He has also served as a Trustee of the Australian Museum and on the NSW Zoological Parks Board. Mr Puplick has previously served on many boards including as President of the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board, NSW Privacy Commissioner, the Chair of the Australian National Council on AIDS, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases; Chair of the Central Sydney Area Health Service and as an Australian Government delegate to both the International Whaling Commission; United Nations General Assembly Special Meeting on AIDS and the Programme Control Board for UNAIDS/WHO. He has held a Professorial Fellowship in the Department of Health and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Wollongong. He has published extensively, writing five books and with extensive journal publication and book review broadcasts for the ABC. His most recent publication, Getting Heard – An Effective Arts Advocacy was published by Currency Press in October 2008.
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
Lynne Williams was appointed Director/CEO of NIDA in May 2008. Prior to her appointment to NIDA, she managed Culture, Ceremonies and Education for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG), as well as contributing to London’s 2012’s successful Olympic Bid as a Cultural Advisor/Creative Producer. Based in the UK from 1985 to 2006, Ms Williams other appointments included as CEO of Cardiff 2008, CEO/Artistic Director of the Eastern Touring Agency and interim CEO of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Ms Williams is classically trained in music, and was responsible for the development of a Music Theatre Company for the Conservatorium of Music in Wollongong and a new Creative Arts faculty for the University of Wollongong.
Dr William Winspear
Bill Winspear has had a long association with NIDA, serving on its Board of Directors between 1984 and 1995, as a Director of the NIDA Foundation Trust between 1995 and 2008, and as Chairman of Friends of NIDA for more than eleven years. After graduating in dentistry from the University of Sydney, Dr Winspear combined post graduate studies in clinical research and health administration with private general practice. He then accepted senior posts within the New South Wales Department of Health, including that of Chief Dental Officer, the Health Insurance Commission and Medibank Private as well as holding both teaching and administrative appointments with the University of Sydney. Currently he is a consultant in health services to state and federal governments, and the health and insurance industries. Dr Winspear has served on a number of committees for the Australian Dental Association at state and national levels. He is Deputy Chairman of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons Foundation and was the first International President of the Pierre Fauchard Academy. Since 2002 Dr Winspear has been a Director of the Seaborn, Broughton and Walford Foundation
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