Staff

Co-Director | Bec Dean
Co-Director | Jeff Khan
General Manager | Julieanne Campbell
Production Manager | Tristan Ellis-Windsor
Technical Manager | Aaron Clarke
Producer | Tanja Farman
Development & Membership Officer | Amelia Wallin
Media & Marketing Officer | Rosie Fisher
Indigenous Projects Officer | Alison Murphy-Oates
Projects Officer | Georgie Meagher
Projects Officer | Nat Randall
Finance Officer | Rhanda Mansour

Co-Director | Bec Dean
becd [at] performancespace.com.au
Bec Dean is a curator and writer who trained as a visual artist. Prior to Performance Space, Bec was curator at the Australian Centre for Photography (2005-2007), exhibition manager at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2002-2005) and held various positions at John Curtin Gallery (1997-2001). Bec was Chair of both the Artrage Festival in Perth (2003-2005), and the Young People and the Arts Panel of ArtsWA (2001-2002), and is currently Chair of contemporary dance company DirtyFeet. She has also served on the selection panel for the Bundanon Trust Residency Program (2007-2010). She has written catalogue essays for galleries and museums including Art Gallery of NSW, Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane), Artspace (Sydney) and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and reviews, previews and features in numerous Australian publications including Art & Australia, Artlink, RealTime, Column (Artspace), Photofile, Flash (CCP), Runway, un Magazine and Broadsheet.

Co-Director | Jeff Khan
jeffk [at] performancespace.com.au
Jeff Khan is a curator and writer working across performance, dance and the visual arts, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary projects and site-specific and socially-engaged practices. From 2006–2010 Jeff was Artistic Director of Next Wave, overseeing the development and delivery of the 2008 Next Wave Festival: CLOSER TOGETHER and the 2010 Next Wave Festival: NO RISK TOO GREAT, as well as Next Wave’s acclaimed Kickstart development program and numerous special projects. Previously, Jeff has held roles at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and John Curtin Gallery (Perth), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York). As a writer, Jeff has contributed texts to numerous publications, exhibition catalogues, magazines and artists’ projects.

General Manager | Julieanne Campbell
julieannec [at] performancespace.com.au
Julieanne Campbell has worked in the arts for over 15 years across administration, marketing, event management, and financial and strategic planning. She originally trained as a journalist and moved into the arts after receiving a Media Grant from the Department of Foreign Affairs to tour Indonesia with Entr’acte Theatre in 1993. After working with a range of arts companies and festivals in Sydney, she re-located to New York in 1998 where she worked for four years, specializing in communications and marketing for contemporary visual arts. Clients included Art Basel, GuggenheimFilm, Eyebeam Arts + Technology Center and various pavilions for 1999, 2001 and 2003 Venice Biennales. Julieanne was Chair of PACT Centre for Emerging Artists from 2008–2010, and is currently on the Management Committee for Inner West Cultural Services.

Production Manager | Tristan Ellis-Windsor
production [at] performancespace.com.au
Tristan Ellis-Windsor is a production and technical manager of performing and visual arts and events. Previously Tristan was Technical Manager for Company B Belvoir, overseeing more than 40 productions at Belvoir St and in other venues around Sydney. He also toured productions for Company B including extensive national and international seasons as the Production Manager of Page 8. In 2005, Tristan worked for the City of Sydney as the Harbour of Light Coordinator for Sydney New Year’s Eve, and in 2006 and 2007 was the Technical Coordinator across the entire event. Recently, Tristan worked for Ensemble Theatre as Touring and Associate Production Manager. Tristan has worked in various capacities for the Sydney Theatre Company, MSF Events, Griffin Theatre Company, the Queensland Conservatorium, TP Events, and the Queensland Performing Arts Trust, among others.

Technical Manager | Aaron Clarke
tech [at] performancespace.com.au
Aaron Clarke is a technician, musician, lighting designer/operator and A/V tech. He is largely self-taught through years of DIY show productions in the arts and music underground before becoming the Technical Supervisor, first of PACT Centre for Emerging Artists and more recently, Carriageworks. He has worked with Brown Council, Heavy Metal Work Orchestra, Ever After Theatre, and at numerous theatres and venues across NSW. As a musician, he has played in Pure Evil Trio and other bands at What is Music?, Now NOW Festival, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Big Day Out, Punkfest (NZ) and International Noise Conference 2011 in Miami, Florida, plus many venues from the likes of Space 3 and Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discotheque to backyards and living rooms.

Producer | Tanja Farman
producer [at] performancespace.com.au
Tanja Farman is a presenter, producer and arts consultant. She is the Founder Director of queerupnorth in Manchester UK, and was the Co-Creative Producer for the Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme 2002. She has worked on a broad range of projects on both continents including producing a major ‘Cities on The Edge’ event for Liverpool European Capital of Culture, and presenting numerous Australian artists and companies in the UK including William Yang, STC, Tanja Liedtke, Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc, Paul Capsis and David Page. Most recently she has worked with Australian choreographers Meryl Tankard and Shaun Parker. Tanja is on the Board of London based Moti Roti and Sydney companies Force Majeure and Urban Theatre Projects.

Development & Membership Officer | Amelia Wallin
development [at] performancespace.com.au
Amelia Wallin is an arts administrator, curator and performance maker, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary arts. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours, Class 1, Performance studies) and a Bachelor of Art Theory from the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW. Amelia is currently a Co-Director of Firstdraft and was a founding member of The Paper Mill. She is co-curatoring the 2012 Tiny Stadiums festival and also curates exhibitions and events with the collective Sydney Guild. As an artist she makes collaborative performance works with Friends With Deficits.

Media & Marketing Officer | Rosie Fisher
media [at] performancespace.com.au
Rosie Fisher has worked in various producing and marketing roles for Belvoir, Australian Theatre for Young People and Griffin Theatre Company, among others. As a freelance publicist she has worked for Tiny Stadiums Festival, Ampersand magazine, Carriageworks and PlayWriting Australia. Rosie is co-founder and co-director of Imperial Panda, whose Imperial Panda Festival is now in its third year.

Indigenous Projects Officer | Alison Murphy-Oates
alimo [at] performancespace.com.au
Alison Murphy-Oates is a 24 year old Darkinjung woman from the Central Coast of NSW, and descendant of the Wiradjuri nation from Warren in the Central West of NSW. Since graduating from the BA (Design for Theatre and Television) at Charles Sturt University in 2009, Ali worked as a production assistant on the Message Sticks Film Indigenous Festival and the Luminous Festival through the Indigenous Traineeship Program at the Sydney Opera House, as well as Project Manager of IndigeLab 2009 for Performance Space. Ali joins Performance Space again after a year and a half with Arts NSW as Administrative Officer in Capacity and Development, an Aboriginal identified position supported by the NSW Government’s Elsa Dixon Employment Program. She is also currently studying a Masters (Arts Management) through the University of Technology, Sydney.

Projects Officer | Georgie Meagher
georgiem [at] performancespace.com.au
Georgie Meagher is an artist and curator with an interest in interdisciplinary and experimental artforms and practices. Georgie is currently a co-director of Firstdraft Gallery, and a founding member of two artist collectives: Bake Sale for Art, and Team MESS. As an artist, she makes installations and performances with Tiger Two Times, and in 2010 she presented a site specific performance and mapping project at ANTI Festival, Finland in collaboration with Malcolm Whittaker. Georgie was awarded a Masters of Creative Arts with Distinction in 2008 from the University of Wollongong.

Projects Officer | Nat Randall
natr [at] performancespace.com.au
Nat Randall is an artist and arts administrator with an interest in interdisciplinary arts working across forms of live art, dance and queer performance. Nat is a founding member of both performance collective, Team MESS and artist-run initiative, Bake Sale For Art, curating and facilitating performance and art events and evenings at venues and public spaces in Sydney. She graduated in 2008 from the University of Wollongong with a Bachelor of Creative Arts.

Finance Officer | Rhanda Mansour
accounts [at] performancespace.com.au
Rhanda joined Performance Space in 2008 as Finance Officer, beginning her involvement with the arts community. Prior to this she had worked in the private sector in accounting and taxation for over ten years and continues to do so. Rhanda graduated with a business degree from the University of Technology, with a major in Accounting and sub-major in Small Business. She is also a Certified Practising Accountant.