Jacqueline is a creative with a passion for innovative community engagement that advocates for real change. She is an advocate for Western Sydney, for people with a disability, for life-changing education and creative learning, the arts and creative and innovative practices.
She has worked across Sydney opening a local theatre company, Liverpool Performing Arts Ensemble in 2007, as Producer/Curator of Theatre at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Deputy Chair of Access Arts Australia, Creative Producer at Critical Stages, Marketing Manager at Monkey Baa Theatre Company, Producer, Children, Families and Creative Learning at Sydney Opera House, as Co-Director and Founder of Toy Diplomacy and now as Director at PYT Fairfield.
Organisation/Company
Name: Powerhouse Youth Theatre Inc. (T/A PYT Fairfield)
My Role: Director
PYT Fairfield’s vision asserts and celebrates Australia as a culturally diverse nation.
PYT Fairfield is the only professional theatre company in Western Sydney focused on the development and engagement of local young and emerging artists as core practice.
PYT has a reputation as a brave and transformative theatre company who make urgent work that explores the critical issues of our times. We challenge the conventions of traditional theatre and respond to the needs and aspirations of the next generation of artists. We do this by creating innovative performance and social artistic experiences in theatre spaces and across diverse urban sites of Fairfield, Western Sydney and beyond, and with a key focus on cultural diversity.
The Performing Arts Network of New Zealand (PANNZ) Arts Market is New Zealand's premiere event for artists, producers, presenters and industry leaders from across the performing arts sector.