Management
Our management team
Adelaide Festival Centre is a statutory authority under the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust Act 1971, created by an Act of Parliament.
Adelaide Festival Centre funds over 70% of its operating costs through earned revenue including box office, catering, ticketing (through Adelaide Festival Centre’s BASS), venue hire, meetings and conference business as well as scenery building and engineering workshops. The South Australian Government contributes approximately 30% of Adelaide Festival Centre’s revenue.
Adelaide Festival Centre Trustees
- Jim Hazel (Chair)
- Mitchell Butel
- Julia Knight
- Tony Smith
- Sandy Verschoor, Lord Mayor of Adelaide
- Steven Woolhouse
- Christine Zeitz (Deputy Chair)
- Maggie Zhou
Adelaide Festival Centre Management
CEO & Artistic Director | Douglas Gautier AM |
Chief Operating & Financial Officer | Carlo D’Ortenzio |
Director of Programming, Development & Venue Sales | Liz Hawkins |
Director of Marketing, Sales & Audience Engagement | Kristen Eckhardt |
Technical Manager | Moira Hay |
Head of Public Affairs | Ruth Sibley |
Creative Director, Cabaret & Commercial | Alex Sinclair |
Manager, Ticketing | Natalie Adam |
Manager, Philanthropy | Abbie Taylor |
Manager, Venue Sales | Paul Drennan |
Manager, Finance & Business Support | Christine Dunthorne |
Manager, Human Resources | Claire George |
Manager, Digital & Social | Julia George |
Manager, WHS & Risk | Carolyn Laffin |
Manager, Scenery & Engineering Workshop | Mike Price |
Manager, Commercial Partnerships & Events | Teresa Whitehorn |
Adelaide Festival Centre Produced Festivals
DreamBIG Children's Festival Creative Producer | Susannah Sweeney |
Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic Director | Alan Cumming |
Adelaide Guitar Festival Artistic Director | Slava Grigoryan |
OzAsia Festival Artistic Director | Annette Shun Wah |
Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation Board
- Miranda Starke (Chair)
- Cathy Chong
- Cain Cooke
- Janet Crawford
- Sheryn Foord
- Rupert Hallam
- Kathryn House AM
- Penny Johnson
- Legh Davis (Patron)
- Joan Hardy OAM (Patron)