On the move: latest arts sector appointments

A long-serving Artistic Director steps down, new Board appointments, and a Chief Conductor’s tenure is extended in this week’s wrap of Australian arts sector comings and goings.
On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments and resignations. Photo depicts a parkour jumper mid-leap, framed above a shipping container against a grey sky.

Fraser Corfield, the Artistic Director and CEO of Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) since February 2009, has announced he will step down from the position in February next year.

“Next February I’ll have served 16 years with ATYP,” Corfield said. “Very few in our industry get the extraordinary opportunity to set the creative vision for a company as an Artistic Director, let alone hold the role for so long.”

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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