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 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts

Richard Watts's Latest Articles

Features

Keeping fresh and focussed in a long term role (from our archives)

It's the perennial question: how do you stay motivated in a job that you love after years? This classic article…

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Sauce, Dublin Fringe Festival (Ireland)

Two women in a bind discover that friendship adds piquancy to their lives in this fast-paced, comedic two-hander.

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Shadows/Champions of Dance, Dublin Fringe Festival (Ireland)

Dublin Fringe continues with Derek Byrne’s debut play based on a real-life encounter at a cruising spot, and a madcap,…

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Admin/Villains, Dublin Fringe (Ireland)

A one-man show about loneliness, longing, and social media-enhanced isolation, and a dance theatre piece exploring call-out culture through a…

News

Australian audio comedy series snapped up by the BBC

A half-hour narrative sci-fi comedy series originally crowdfunded for digital download will soon air on BBC Radio 4.

Career Advice

Top 3 tips for emerging arts managers

With many in the sector working in administrative roles, we’ve asked arts leaders from Darwin to Hobart and Perth to…

Career Advice

Top 3 tips for emerging directors

From independent theatre to the mainstage, directors from around the country offer practical advice for those starting out in their…

Career Advice

Top 3 tips for emerging producers

Independent producers from Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne offer advice for those who are just starting out in the game.

Features

How verbatim theatre can keep history alive

In retelling the long and often bitter campaign for gay law reform in Tasmania, the new production ‘The Campaign’ not…

Features

The Australians are coming! The Australians are coming!

The annual Australian invasion of Edinburgh is about to begin. What attracts them in such numbers? And with over 130…

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