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Co-Artistic Directors announced for reimagined Melbourne International Arts Festival

Choreographer and director Gideon Obarzanek and artist, curator and festival director Hannah Fox will jointly lead the new-look festival following its merger with White Night.

3 Jul 2019 12:00

Richard Watts

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New co-Artistic Directors Hannah Fox and Gideon Obarzanek. Photo credit: Sarah Walker.

Following the recent announcement that Melbourne International Arts Festival (MIAF) will merge with White Night from 2020, tradition continues to be upended with the announcement on Wednesday (3 July) that the new-look festival will have co-Artistic Directors for the first time in its 34-year history.

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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