Off the back of the highly successful 2023 Sydney Festival, which saw 420,234 attendees, Festival Director Olivia Ansell has accepted an invitation from the Festival Board to extend her current contract a further year, taking her tenure through to 2025.
Since joining Sydney Festival, Ansell has brokered numerous world premiere productions, commissioned large-scale Australian work and collaborated with the international cultural community to create and bring world-class festival experiences to Sydney.
