In industry first, Melbourne Theatre Company has formed an advisory council of artists including Zoë Coombs Marr, Tony Briggs and Patricia Cornelius
Theatre Company has arrived at what it hopes will be part of a solution: a group of artists diverse in both culture and age, including lighting designers, actors, directors, writers, comedians and activists, who will form an advisory council to those making programming decisions at the MTC.
The move sets out to amplify voices who have long been left out of top-level decision-making in the state theatre companies across the country.Zindzi Okenyo, co-director of Kylie Jenner, is part of the new advisory group.
Serving on the panel for two years, the group will meet four times a year and each member will also have one-to-one meetings with Sarks on their individual areas of expertise. “It is an advisory group, not a programming group,” she said. “But this is about acknowledging that everything the company does is informed by these artists who have specific expertise, and they represent society as a whole.”
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