Robyn Archer is a singer, writer and director who has performed throughout Australia and the world. Her speciality of the songs of Brecht /Weill /Eisler and Weimar culture generally have marked her out internationally, and her landmark recordings with the London Sinfonietta are available on CD as Songs For Bad Times Vols 1 and 2. She continues to sing an eclectic repertoire including country, standards, and her own songs. She was Artistic Director of the National Festival of Australian Theatre in Canberra for three years and of the Adelaide Festival in 1998 and 2000. She was chair of the Australia Council's Community Cultural Development Board, a consultant to the new Melbourne Museum for three years and advisor on the Australian cultural content for EXPO 2000 in Hannover. She created the biennial festival Ten Days on the Island for Tasmania and was artistic director of the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2002, 2003, 2004. More recently, among many other engagements, she has worked on Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008 and the new Luminato Festival in Toronto. She was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2000, and Chevalier du l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2001 and holds honorary doctorates from Flinders and Sydney Universities.
In 2009 she was appointed Creative Director for the Centenary of Canberra in 2013.

For the past 26 years Lee Christofis has been one of Australia's leading dance critics and commentators in the print and broadcast media, notably in The Australian and on ABC Art programs. He threw his first fund-raiser as an 18-year-old Queensland Ballet dancer in the 1960s when funding was minimal and precarious, never imagining that forty years later he would be teaching arts management at the University of Melbourne. There he devised the Multicultural Arts Marketing Ambassadors Strategy to encourage arts organisations to build new audiences among ethnic communities. He has never given up his day job, though, moving from dance to early childhood education, family welfare and settlement programs for migrants and refugees. He returned to dance full-time in 2007 as the National Library of Australia's Curator of Dance. His ironic fascination with arts funding and policy was galvanised by five years' experience with ABC Concerts, seven on the ABC Radio & TV Advisory Board, and eight as a national vice-president of Ausdance. His abiding fascination over the past decade has been the emergence of contemporary dance that overtook postmodernism in distinctive ways and attracted both unlikely collaborators and new audiences from outside the dance community.
He was honoured for services to dance in the 2009 Australia Dance awards.

Lyndon Terracini has enjoyed a highly successful international opera career which has has more recently combined with directing festivals and other arts events. Since making his debut in 1976 as Sid in Albert Herring at the Sydney Opera House, Lyndon Terracini has built an international reputation in contemporary opera and music theatre. Highlights have included the title role in the world premiere of ROSA - A Horse Drama (Louis Andriessen and Peter Greenaway) for the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam, the title role in Stephen Climax (Hans Zender) for the Frankfurt Opera, Elliot Carter's Syringa at the Tonnehalle in Zurich, 8 Songs for a mad King at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen and Lord Byron in Mer de Glace (Meale/Malouf) for The Australian Opera. In 1999, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music Theatre by Central Queensland University and in February 2000 a Fellowship by the Music Fund of the Australia Council for the Arts. In 2001, he was awarded an Honorary D. Univ. from Southern Cross University and in July 2005 the Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Cultural leadership Award by Australian Business ARTS Foundation. In 2005 he was appointed Adjunct Professor at University of Queensland. Lyndon Terracini was appointed Artistic Director and CEO of the Queensland Music Festival in July 2000 and directed the, 2001, 2003 and 2005 Festivals. Until 2009 he was Chief Executive of Major Brisbane Festivals and Artistic Director of the Brisbane Festival and River Festival. Last year he was appointed Artistic Director of Opera Australia.

Executive Director

Justin Macdonnell and has been employed in arts management, producing and consultancy for forty years. In that time he has been Projects Manager for The Australian Opera, General Manager of the State Opera of SA and Director of the National Opera of New Zealand. He has also been Program Director of the Festival of Sydney and Executive Director of CAPPA (Confederation of Australian Professional Performing Arts). As principal of Macdonnell Promotions (1986-2003) he was one of Australia's leading arts management consultants to both the public and private sectors and to literally scores of arts organisations here and abroad. From 1992, through the Australia-Latin America Foundation, he ran an extensive cultural exchange network between Australia and countries in that region managing over 100 tours and exhibitions and curated programs from the Asia-Pacific area at major festivals in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela as well as Latin American programs for the Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide Festivals. He has also produced and/or directed Australian festivals in Indonesia, Singapore, Brazil and Mexico. Macdonnell is a poet and librettist and the author of two major works on arts policy. From 2003 to 2007 he was Artistic Director of the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, USA. He became Executive Director of the Anzarts Institute in January 2008.