Richard Watts

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

Richard Watts's Latest Articles

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Mother's rights now: Introducing the Motherfesto

Are our arts spaces inclusive of mums? A new manifesto developed out of the lived experience of mothers working in…

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Marieke Hardy resigns from Melbourne Writers Festival

Artistic Director Marieke Hardy has resigned from the MWF with one year of her contract remaining, in order to focus…

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How VET courses can overcome barriers to performing arts training

Socio-economic disadvantage and other structural barriers can prevent people from gaining access to arts education and working in the arts…

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Born in the back of a ute, Outback Theatre for Young People turns 30

The resilient theatre company is celebrating three decades of significant engagement with young people in regional and remote NSW.

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Learning curves: Mitchell Butel, Artistic Director, STCSA

Assembling an entire subscription season in just three months was the first of several challenges actor-turned-Artistic Director Mitchell Butel faced…

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Seeing is believing at EXPONIDA 2019

The talent, rigour and creativity of NIDA’s Master, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Vocational Diploma students are displayed in this…

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So you want my arts job: Voice Coach

From inhabiting dialects to teaching actors to croak like a pelican, Charmian Gradwell's job as STC's Voice, Text and Dialect…

Features

Flights of fancy: When art meets science

A new song-cycle explores an important Australian invention, the now ubiquitous black box flight recorder.

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The Blue Room celebrates 30 years by looking to the future

Perth’s home of independent theatre has nurtured the careers of countless artists over the last three decades. Now its management…

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Four year funding applications submitted: what next?

After a gruelling application process, the 162 organisations invited to apply for four-year funding from the Australia Council for the…

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