How a sideways career move aided an international tour

Belvoir’s Executive Producer Sue Donnelly discusses the company’s upcoming UK tour of epic play Counting and Cracking.

Belvoir’s Sue Donnelly recognises that her recent movement sideways into the newly created position of Executive Producer is a little out of the ordinary.  

‘It’s an unusual situation but it’s seeming to work so far,’ said Donnelly, who in March stepped aside as the company’s Executive Director and Co-CEO (with those responsibilities now held by Aaron Beach, previously Belvoir’s Deputy Executive Director and Senior Producer).

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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