On the move: latest sector appointments

New CEO for Melbourne Recital Centre, new Executive Director for Australasian Dance Collective, and more.

Selected from an outstanding field of candidates, Melbourne Recital Centre’s new CEO, Sandra Willis, is a widely respected, Melbourne-born and raised arts executive.

Willis brings 25 years’ experience in the arts sector to her new role, which she commences in early April. With a career spanning theatrical producing, stage, event and project management, as well as strategic leadership and management, Willis has played a pivotal role in shaping some of Australia’s most noteworthy organisations, including Opera Queensland, Opera Australia, Arena Theatre Company, Oz Opera and Bell Shakespeare.

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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