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Monday
22
Feb
Day 1:
The opening day of APAM 2016 featuring the welcome lunch, keynote event, opening ceremony and showcases not to be missed.
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Tuesday
23
Feb
Day 2:
Come and be part of The Exchange, hosted at our hotel partner, Sofitel Brisbane Central. APAM's program of over 20 on-display booths, speed dating, pecha kucha style sessions and panel discussions will begin at 9am before our shuttle bus service will transfer everyone to our first day of exciting showcases at QPAC.
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Wednesday
24
Feb
Day 3:
Begin your day at the Sofitel Brisbane Central with a quick-fire guide to international touring and collaborating at the APAM 2016 Round Tables. The afternoon at Brisbane Powerhouse will bring you works-in-development pitches and a night of music on the Turbine Platform.
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Thursday
25
Feb
Day 4:
Our last morning of The Exchange is your final chance to visit the on-display booths and explore some of the artists, companies, collectives and funding agencies promoting their work. Then join us from 1pm at QPAC for showcases from leading Australian artists and companies.
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Friday
26
Feb
Day 5:
APAM isn't over yet! Day 5 of APAM at the Judith Wright Centre will be your only chance to witness showcases of large-scale works as well as transformative performances of theatre, music and dance. Use this final opportunity for conversations and networking throughout the morning and afternoon before Brisbane Powerhouse will send you off with a very special goodbye.
Speed Dating Dates
Tuesday 23 February
Abdi Karya (INDONESIA) - Operational Director, Rumata Arts Space in Makassar
Alex Wu (CHINA) - President, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, Shanghai Contemporary Theatre Festival
Beck Pearce (AUSTRALIA) - Program Director, Brisbane Festival
Debs McSmith (NEW ZEALAND) - Business Development Manager, Q Theatre
Janice Kernoghan (UNITED KINGDOM) - Associate Artist Young at Art / Associate Director Replay Theatre Company
Haru Tanji (JAPAN) - Shizuoka Performing Arts Centre
Jerry Remkes (AUSTRALIA) - Programmer, Arts Centre Melbourne
Joanne Kee (AUSTRALIA) - Executive Producer, National Theatre of Parramatta
Joe Sidek (MALAYSIA) - Artistic Director, Joe Sidek Productions
Orla O'Loughlin (SCOTLAND) - Artistic Director, Traverse Theatre
Rachel Healy (AUSTRALIA) - 2017 Joint Artistic Director, Adelaide Festival
Sarah Neal (AUSTRALIA) - Executive Producer and Co-CEO, Malthouse Theatre
Shoshana Polanco (MEXICO) - Productora Internacional, La Teatreria
Wednesday 24 February
Guy Boyce (AUSTRALIA) - General Manager, Mandurah Performing Arts Centre
Heidi Holbrook (NEW ZEALAND) - Festival Director, Kokomai Creative Festival
Joanna Rieussec (FRANCE) - Associate Producer, Quaternaire
Jong-Ho Lee (SOUTH KOREA) - Artistic Director, Seoul International Dance Festival (SIDance)
Judith Blankenberg (HOLLAND) - Programming, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival
Louisa Gordon (AUSTRALIA) - Head of Programming & Production, Ten Days on the Island
Marnie Karmelita (AUSTRALIA) - Programming Director, Brisbane Powerhouse
Norman Armour (UK) - Artistic & Executive Director, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
Pom Pom Wang (CHINA) - Director, Tianqiao Performing Arts Centre
Simon Hinton (AUSTRALIA) - Artistic Director/CEO, Merrigong Theatre Company
Wesley Enoch (AUSTRALIA) - Executive Director, Sydney Festival
Tuesday 23 February
After graduating from the school of humanities of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Alex became the promotion manager of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre. In 2005, he was promoted in the associated director of marketing department. He received a master degree from University of Science and Technology in Lille, France, in 2008. From 2009, he is the director of marketing department of SDAC.
Meanwhile, as an experienced producer, he is in charge of interactivity with different programs from more than 20 countries. He is also the programing director of Shanghai Contemporary International Theatre Festival. Besides, He is the general manager of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Culture & Communication Co., Ltd, which is invested by SDAC.
Rebecca Pearce is the Program Director with Brisbane Festival, one of Australian largest major annual arts Festival. Held each year in September in Brisbane, the Brisbane Festival features a diverse program of theatre, dance, music, visual arts and live events. The 2016 Festival will be held from 3-24 September across three weeks in various locations in Brisbane.
Rebecca has been involved in a variety of international arts and cultural programs and events encompassing music, dance, theatre, visual arts and community events. She has strong experience as producer and programmer in Festivals working both in Australia and overseas, and has extensive experience programming in an Arts Centre environment. Rebecca has conducted Arts Management residencies overseas in Singapore and Paris.
Q Theatre is an independent, mid-range performing arts venue located in the heart of the city centre’s cultural precinct in Auckland, New Zealand.
Housing four purpose-built performance spaces, including two fully-flexible black box spaces, Q hosts a curated programme of over 530 performances of theatre, dance, music, comedy and film per year, and attracts an annual ticketed audience of over 89,000.
Q is represented at the speed dating sessions by our Business Development Manager, Debs McSmith. Debs joined Q in July 2015, following a contract with New Zealand’s arts funding & development agency Creative New Zealand. She has a background in event & festival management, having previously produced regional tours for Perth’s FRINGE WORLD festival and the NZ International Comedy Festival.
Jerry Remkes (AUSTRALIA) - Programmer, Arts Centre Melbourne
Jerry Remkes is Programmer Performing Arts at Arts Centre Melbourne, one of Australia's leading arts centres, hosting in 2015 almost 1,500 performance events for almost 1.2 million visitors. Arts Centre Melbourne covers the full scale of the performing arts on its five stages, both Australian and international, and also has an expansive Participation and Learning program.
The Australian Ballet, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Theatre Company and Opera Australia are its resident companies. Jerry Remkes' role focuses on programming theatre, dance and circus, mainly for Arts Centre Melbourne's three theatre venues: the Fairfax Studio (376 seats), the Playhouse (884 seats) and the State Theatre (2,079 seats).
The National Theatre of Parramatta was launched in November, 2015. Resident at Riverside Theatres, National Theatre of Parramatta will present work that engages the imagination with creative ideas that resonate with and raises the profile of performance in Western Sydney, across the nation and ultimately internationally.
Diversity, inspiration and transformation, NTofP celebrates diversity in all its forms from social, cultural, economic and physical perspectives. We will tell stories that reflect today’s world from an Australian viewpoint through presenting contemporary and bold performance.
Also integral to the company is engagement and capacity building in Western Sydney such as our Creative(s) Investment Program which offers skills development opportunities for the sector and also our From Play to Stage play writing program which will be launched mid 2016. National Theatre of Parramatta is putting the nation on stage.
Joanne was co-Artistic Director and founder of the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival, Artistic Director at Sydney Improvised Music Association, General Manager of The Song Company, Business Manager of Programming Sydney Opera House, ran a national contemporary music touring project, Sound Travellers, set up creative development and performances residencies for artists and has also worked at the Arts Council of England and Carnivale, multicultural arts festival. As a producer she tours internationally award winning work. She is on the board of Music Australia, Sydney Fringe Festival and the Glebe Chamber of Commerce. She was Chair of Ausdance NSW and chair of the working Group that set up Critical Path.
Prior to taking up post at the Traverse, she was Artistic Director of the award-winning Pentabus Theatre and International Associate at the Royal Court Theatre.
Directing work for the Traverse includes Tracks of the Winter Bear, The Scotsman Fringe First and Scottish Arts Club Theatre award-winning Swallow, The Scotsman Fringe First award-winning Spoiling, The Scotsman Fringe First, Herald Angel and CATS award-winning Ciara, The Devil Masters, Clean, A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity, Fifty Plays for Edinburgh, The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society, The Artist Man and the Mother Woman, and the Herald Angel award-winning Dream Plays (Scenes From A Play I’ll Never Write).
Other directing work includes: For Once (Hampstead Theatre Studio, National Tour); Kebab (Dublin International Festival/ Royal Court Theatre); How Much is your Iron? (Young Vic); The Hound of the Baskervilles (West Yorkshire Playhouse/ National Tour/ West End); Tales of the Country, Origins (Pleasance/ Theatre Severn); Relatively Speaking, Blithe Spirit, Black Comedy (Watermill Theatre); Small Talk: Big Picture (BBC World Service/ ICA/ Royal Court Theatre); A Dulditch Angel (National Tour) and The Fire Raisers, sob stories, Refrain (BAC).
Orla is a former recipient of the James Menzies Kitchin Award and the Carlton Bursary at the Donmar Warehouse. She was recently listed in the Observer as one of the top 50 cultural leaders in the UK.
Rachel Healy has been working in executive positions in the arts and cultural sector for twenty-five years including as Director of Performing Arts for Sydney Opera House, General Manager of Belvoir Street Theatre and roles at the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Handspan Theatre and the Australian Ballet. Most recently she worked as Executive Manager Culture for the City of Sydney, where she was responsible for developing both the City’s first cultural policy and live music and performance action plan. She has also worked as a cultural industries consultant and producer and has held governance roles on the boards of many cultural organisations and government agencies including the Sydney Opera House Trust, Live Performance Australia, Arts on Tour, Arts NSW, Sydney Writers’ Festival and the Theatre Board of the Australia Council.
She is currently a member of the Major Performing Arts Panel of the Australia Council, a board member of Hothouse Theatre, Chair of the Performing Arts Touring Alliance and a member of the Industry Advisory Board at the University of Technology Sydney’s Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.
With Neil Armfield, she is currently co-Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival for 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Sarah is a curator, programmer and producer; she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and a Master of Arts in Creative Writing and her career has spanned performing arts, film and television, and publishing.
Prior to joining Malthouse Theatre in 2013, Sarah was the Acting Artistic Director and Head of Programming of Brisbane Powerhouse, where she developed, curated and produced a range of multi arts programs and festivals including World Theatre Festival, Brisbane Comedy Festival, Brisbane Jazz Festival, Sound Polaroids Festival, and Brisbane Queer Film Festival.
For Malthouse Theatre, Sarah has negotiated an international co-production with the National Theatre of China and a subsequent tour to Beijing and Shanghai International Arts Festivals, a forthcoming season for Malthouse production The Shadow King at the Barbican Centre in London, and new commissions from the Belarus Free Theatre, Gob Squad, and Soho Rep (New York).
Sarah is the current Chair of the Helpmann Awards Cabaret Panel, she was a member of the Theatre Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and she has sat on panels for Creative Victoria, the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards, the Berlin International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, Frameline Film Festival San Francisco and Outfest, Los Angeles.
Shoshana Polanco is a creative producer with international exposure and work experience in Buenos Aires, New York, and Mexico City. She is currently the International Producer of La Teatreria -- a new theatre in Mexico City, which recently co-commissioned WHAT WILL HAVE BEEN by CIRCA.
Previous experience includes General Producer of FIBA (Buenos Aires’ International Performing Arts Festival), Director of Production for the main Zocalo event that was part of Mexico Bicentennial Celebration in September 2010, Production Coordinator at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico, Executive Assistant of Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Managing Director of The Builders Association, Media and Outreach Consultant at Lincoln Center Festival, Company Manager and Volunteer Coordinator at TeatroStageFest, Production Manager for International Contemporary Ensemble, Creative Producer for BAiT (Buenos Aires in Translation) at Performance Space 122, and Festivales de Buenos Aires where besides producing FIBA. She produced the Contemporary Dance Festival (2012) and the Shakespeare Festival (2013).
Ms Polanco is a 2014 ISPA fellow. She holds a Magna Cum Laude BA from the CUNY Baccalaureate Program in Women in Performance.
Wednesday 24 February
Guy Boyce trained as an actor at the NZ Drama School from 1982-3 and then spent the next ten years as a freelance actor/director throughout New Zealand. He moved into arts management, as Theatre Manager for BATS Theatre, 1993-94; Program Manager for Downstage Theatre, 1994-98; and Director for Playmarket, New Zealand’s script development and playwright’s agency,1999-2000; all in Wellington.
He became Director of the Christchurch Arts Festival in 2000 and presented 5 biennial multi art form festivals up to 2009, plus two cabaret festivals and two writer’s festivals in the alternate years. In 2010 he undertook a 6 month contract to open the refurbished Nelson Regent Theatre before shifting to Mandurah in June 2010 to manage the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre in Western Australia.
He is currently Chair of CircuitWest, the performing arts presenter association of WA. The Mandurah Performing Arts Centre was awarded the APACA Drover Award as Performing Arts Centre of the Year for 2013, and was one of three finalists in 2014.
The Kokomai Creative Festival is an explosion of world class entertainment held biennially, over 10 glorious days in October, right across the beautiful valley of the Wairarapa region in New Zealand. Established in 2013 the Kokomai Creative Festival is a programme of theatre, music, visual art, dance, film and literature. Our festival includes a schools and touring programme, taking work out to our rural communities, reaching and developing our audiences.
We programme shows in our traditional theatres, homesteads, shops, woodsheds, galleries, parks, community halls and private homes. We partner with other New Zealand festivals sharing international shows. Our next festival is 13-22 October, 2017.We welcome expressions of interest www.kokomai.co.nz.
Joanna Rieussec (FRANCE) - Associate Producer, Quaternaire
Established in 2006 and based in Paris, Quaternaire is a creative producing and international booking agency. Quaternaire is widely acclaimed for its contemporary, innovative cross-art form productions (operas, concerts, dance, theatre, performances, visual arts, etc). Joanna Rieussec has been working for Quaternaire since 2012, and is associate producer alongside Sarah Ford and Emmanuelle de Varax.
Current collaborations : Akram Khan, Ambra Senatore, Andy Warhol/Dean&Britte, Arthur Nauzyciel, Brokentalkers, Damien Jalet, Handpsring Puppet Company, Hotel Pro Forma, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Olivier Dubois, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, The Tiger Lillies, Tim Yip, William Kentridge, Wim Vandekeybus.
Founder and Artistic Director of SIDance Festival (Seoul International Dance Festival). President of Seoul Section of the International Dance Council, CID-UNESCO. Co-President of Association of Asia Pacific Arts Festivals (AAPAF)
Jong-Ho Lee is a journalist, dance critic and festival organizer. He started his career with "Courrier de la Corée", a French weekly published in Korea, and worked for one of the major mass media companies in Korea, Yonhap News Agency for about 30 years. During his career, he was assigned to Brussels as a correspondent, was a reporter for social affairs and international news, and presided at the desk of culture. Finally, he managed the entire company as the vice president.
Since 1980, Mr. Lee has been an active dance critic and columnist publishing dance reviews, and reports of international festivals and cultural policies. He established Seoul Section of the Int'l Dance Council, CID-UNESCO in 1996 and launched Seoul International Dance Festival (a.k.a. SIDance) in 1998. Since its inception, SIDance has been playing a leading role of “defining international festival” in Korea and Asia. In particular, SIDance festival has been highly acclaimed for its programs focusing on world’s regional dance trends and cultural diversity. One of his best achievements is to build networks with festivals and theaters in various continents, producing over 30 collaborative dance pieces.
Furthermore, he has introduced Korean dancers, choreographers and troops to international stages of over 40 countries promoting about 130 productions.
Noorderzon is an annually recurring eleven-day performing arts festival. With a distinctive high-quality artistic profile, with a cutting-edge (inter)national and local programme, in combination with an uncommonly low threshold, Noorderzon appeals to an extremely wide and diverse public: from professional to novice.
Her programming career started in Rotterdam at Festival De Keuze, which is part of the city theatre Rotterdamse Schouwburg. Before running the festival herself, she assisted Annemie Vanackere (Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin), and collaborated subsequently with Mark Yeoman (Noorderzon, Groningen) – the former artistic directors of Festival De Keuze. She received training in dramaturgy at Utrecht University.
During her advanced masters Theatre Studies at the University of Antwerp she worked as an intern for Noorderzon and wrote a thesis about programming international festivals in the Netherlands. Her interest lies within connecting international artists with local audiences. She lives in Rotterdam and is about to move to Groningen.
Norman Armour is a curator, director, actor and producer. He co-founded Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in 2015, as well as Rumble Productions in 1990, an interdisciplinary theatre company that continues to be a mainstay of the city’s independent theatre scene.
A graduate of Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts, he has collaborated on over 120 works for the stage and other media. His career covers a range of creative interests: devised work and new writing for the stage; contemporary and classical adaptations; site-specific endeavours; large-scale interdisciplinary events; dance/theatre collaborations; and live-remote radio broadcasts. You can catch him on the odd rerun of X Files, as well as films such as Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s Capote. He recently directed the premiere of “Pauline”, a new opera by Tobin Stokes and Margaret Atwood on the life and art of famed Metis poet Pauline Johnson.
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is one of Vancouver’s signature events. Produced over three weeks each January, the PuSh Festival presents ground-breaking work in the live performing arts.
The PuSh Festival expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original. The Festival showcases acclaimed international, Canadian and local artists and mixes them together with an alchemy that inspires audiences, rejuvenates artists, stimulates the industry and forges productive relationships around the globe.
(POM POM is her English name, the same pronunciation as her Chinese given name PENGPENG)
Ms. Pom Pom WANG, drama producer, currently the director of performing Arts Center of Beijing Tian Qiao Zenith Investment Group. Her very early career was a senior copywriter and due to the inability to contain the passion for drama she went to Adelaide and completed her Master Degree of Arts Management.
In 2006, she went to Europe which was sponsored by European Union to study the influence of culture and art in the process of European Integration. During her staying in Europe and through the study of European culture and artistic innovation, she was aware of the charm of home culture. In 2007, she went back China and joined Poly Culture Group engaged in performing arts management and operations. During this period, she was able to work and present many excellent live shows into Chinese market and meanwhile she started her drama production experiences.
In 2010, she transferred to a musical production company as the executive general manager engaged in musical production and management work, during this period there two musicals were produced, “Love U, Teresa” and “Joker’s Game”. The “Love U, Teresa” is based on the works of Teresa Teng's songs, its Premiere was in Hongkong in the beginning of 2011. After, she had arranged the musical show tour to more than 20 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Daegu (South Korea Musical Festival) and so on. As a producer, the plough work experience brought her accumulated rich knowledge and awareness regarding Chinese musical market.
In recent two years, she was busy on preparing the opening show “Beijing Fayuansi” for their organization’s brand-new venue Beijing Tian Qiao Arts Center and of which premiere had achieved a great success and highly praised and recognized by audience and media. At present and in the future, she is going to continue working with professional especially international teams and talents to produce musicals and drama productions. The drama world is always full of charm, which is always full of temptation to her.
Simon Hinton has been Artistic Director / CEO of Merrigong Theatre Company since 2005, managing Illawarra Performing Arts Centre and the Wollongong Town Hall. He has worked in a range of arts industry positions over the last 20 years, including as Marketing Manager of Queensland Theatre Company and Executive Officer of Ausdance (NSW). He has served on numerous industry boards and committees, currently including the Helpmann Awards Regional Touring (Chair) and Children's Presentation Panels. Simon has a Masters in Theatre Studies from UNSW and a Graduate Certificate in Arts Management from UTS Graduate School of Business.
Under his leadership, Merrigong has built a reputation as one of Australia's most successful regional companies - producing, presenting and touring exciting contemporary theatre. Merrigong is committed to commissioning and producing new Australian theatre, and has, since it began producing in 2006, commissioned and produced works from various playwrights, including Alana Valentine, Mary Rachel Brown, Marcel Dorney, Van Badham, and Dhananjaya Karunarathne, as well as co-produced with companies as diverse as version 1.0, Circa, Griffin Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and The Disability Trust.
Wesley Enoch is the incoming Sydney Festival Director for 2017-2019. Previous positions: Artistic Director, Queensland Theatre Company 2010-2015; Trustee, Sydney Opera House 2006-2013; Associate Artistic Director, Company B 2007-2010; Artistic Director Australian Delegation, Festival of Pacific Arts 2008; Director, My Skin My Life, Opening Ceremony, Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006; Artistic Director, Ilbijerri ATSI Theatre Co-op 2003-2006; Resident Director, Sydney Theatre Company 2000-2001; Artistic Director, Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts, 1994-1997.
Awards: The Patrick White Award for The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table; Helpmann Awards - Best Play and Best New Australian Work The Sapphires; Helpmann Award - Best Presentation For Children Riverland; Deadly Award - Best Direction The Sunshine Club; Matilda Award - Best Direction The Sunshine Club; Queensland Performing Arts Centre Award - Contribution to Theatre.
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