Transitions: making the move from director to Artistic Director

Running a major company is the goal of many a freelance director, but how do you get there from here?
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Image: Eamon Flack directing Belvoir’s The Glass Menagerie: photo by Brett Broadman

Eamon Flack’s recent appointment as Belvoir’s next Artistic Director surprised few in the industry, given his long involvement with the company.

‘I feel like I’ve been serving a sort of apprenticeship for this job, I suppose, ever since I started working under Neil [Armfield] in 2006. The first half of my time here I was not directing on the main stage; I was, I guess, in a funny way shadowing Neil and very much a part of the day to day artistic evolving of the company’s work,’ he told ArtsHub.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts