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    • Our Board

    Our Board

    The Performing Lines Board has representatives from business and the arts across Australia, and is chaired by Natalie Jenkins.

    Current Members

    • Natalie Jenkins (Chair), Executive Director, Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company
    • Rhys Holden, CEO and Creative Director of Geelong Arts Centre
    • Lindy Dang, Chief of Staff at Microsoft Australia and New Zealand
    • Frankie Greene, Head of Development at the Australian Museum
    • Vernon Guest, CEO at Ten Days on the Island
    • Eugyeene Teh, Independent Artist, Designer and Architect
    • Emily Shen, Senior Lawyer, Gilbert + Tobin

    Natalie Jenkins | Chair

    Natalie is one of Western Australia’s most respected arts leaders. She brings more than 30 years of leadership across the arts & culture, community, and commercial creative sectors. Her career has spanned roles as CEO, strategic advisor, and non-executive director, with a strong focus on transformation, collaboration and cultural integrity.

    Prior to becoming the Executive Director of Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company in August 2025, Natalie was CEO of Short Back & Sidewalks, a national charity dedicated to creating positive connections for people experiencing homelessness and poverty. Previously, she was leading in the commercial creative industries as CEO of Block Branding and founding Chair of IN:WA. Her extensive experience in the performing arts sector, includes Co-CEO/Executive Director of Black Swan State Theatre Company, where she led significant organisational growth and change and alongside Artistic Director Matthew Lutton, was General Manager of ThinIce, a groundbreaking independent theatre company that partnered with leading festivals and performing arts organisations across Australia. She has held leadership positions at  Perth Theatre Company, PICA, Theatre North Launceston, and as a sessional academic at Edith Cowan University. Natalie has a degree in Arts Management from WAAPA (ECU) and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

    Natalie has extensive governance experience on national and state-based boards and advisory committees, including federal and state government appointments. As well as being Chair of Performing Lines, she is currently Chair of Seesaw Magazine –an independent arts media organisation, and Board Member of FutureNow, a multi-sector workforce development advisory body to the WA Government.

    Lindy Dang

    As Chief of Staff, Lindy plays a pivotal role in advancing the Microsoft ANZ Vision and business strategy. She joined Microsoft in 2019 as Finance Lead for the Australian Enterprise Services business and since then, has led a number of transformation programs across Microsoft’s Services, Enterprise Commercial and Customer Success teams.  

    Prior to joining Microsoft, she spent nearly 12 years at KPMG across both Australia and the UK, leading multi-disciplinary teams and working with clients across all industry segments to deliver their most critical business priorities, strengthening governance and risk management practices. Additionally, Lindy pursued her passion for the arts, as the Director of Investment at the Australia Council for the Arts (now Creative Australia). In this capacity, she partnered closely with Major Performing Arts organisations to strengthen their financial viability and sustainability. Lindy also engaged closely with Federal, State, and Territory governments and the arts sector to help drive major policy reform, which saw the evolution of the Major Performing Arts Framework to the National Performing Arts Partnership Framework.  

    Lindy is the Chair of the Performing Lines Finance, Risk and Audit Committee. 

    Lindy is currently based in Sydney. 

     

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    Rhys Holden

    Rhys Holden is an arts leader, producer, and general manager with extensive experience in managing arts organizations and developing arts initiatives and productions.

    Currently Rhys is CEO and Creative Director of Geelong Arts Centre. Previously, Rhys served as General Manager of Mona Foma and Music at Mona, overseeing strategic and financial management while commissioning work across theatre, dance, music, and visual arts. He was also previously a producer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for Michael Cassel Group; General Manager of La Boite Theatre Company and Roundhouse Theatre; and Company Manager at Sydney Theatre Company.

    Vernon Guest

    As a senior producer, programmer and arts manager, Vernon Guest has curated festivals, venues, and events across Australia. After graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, his early career included stage managing the opening and closing ceremonies of the Sydney Paralympics, and production management for the Adelaide and Perth festivals. Vernon later held the post of Program Manager for the Perth International Arts Festival, Star Shell Manager for the Darwin Festival, Special Project Manager at Sydney Festival, Program Manager at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 8 years as Producer of Major Outdoor Events for the Sydney Festival, and Executive Producer of Ten Days on the Island. With more than 20 years’ experience in the performing arts, Vernon has implemented strategic change in complex not-for-profit structures and led many innovative cultural projects across Australia. Vernon is currently the CEO of Tasmania’s Ten Days on the Island festival.

    Frankie Greene

    Frankie Greene is an experienced and passionate development professional living and working on Gadigal Country. Frankie was appointed Head of Development at the Australian Museum in 2022, where she is responsible for securing major philanthropic revenue to support the strategic priorities and ambitions of the Museum.  

    Frankie joined the Museum after ten years’ working in the arts at Sydney Theatre Company and Griffin Theatre Company. Here, she worked as both a Producer and across philanthropy and partnerships, where she built meaningful relationships across the industry and contributed to advancing major projects and initiatives within the arts and culture sector.  

    Frankie leads with a passion for storytelling and is energised by the power of cultural institutions to both inspire and change hearts and minds. She loves connecting people to projects and ideas that resonate with their own personal aspirations and takes great heart in working in a World Class institution that positively impacts the world through its work across science, culture, and education. Frankie believes in the transformative potential of the arts and sciences to enrich lives and foster a deeper understanding of our world, and she is committed to driving forward initiatives that contribute to societal progress and innovation.  

    Eugyeene Teh

    Eugyeene Teh is a theatre maker, architect and designer across theatre, dance, opera, and fashion. He has worked extensively on shows throughout Australia and internationally including Burgtheater, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Back to Back Theatre, Bell Shakespeare, Little Ones Theatre and Sydney Chamber Opera.

    His works, in close collaboration with some of Australia’s most exciting artists, redefines the possibilities of live and non-live performance while challenging conventions and expanding the narratives that take centre stage. He pushes artistic and technological boundaries through queer explorations and the integration of emerging digital systems to redefine spacial and psychological perceptions.

    Recent design credits include Nosferatu, Die Troerinnen (Burgtheater, Vienna); Happy Days, Laurinda, Endgame, Straight White Men, Hungry Ghosts, Abigail’s Party and Working with Children (Melbourne Theatre Company); Blaque Showgirls, Meme Girls, A Social Service and Atomic (Malthouse Theatre); ARKADIA, Pulau (Melanie Lane, RISING, NGV.) With Little Ones Theatre, as co-artistic director, his many designs include The Happy Prince trilogy, Merciless Gods (with Griffin Theatre Company and Arts Centre Melbourne); Dracula, Dangerous Liaisons (with MTC NEON, Brisbane MELT, Darwin Festival). Other recent credits include Bell Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Melbourne Festival’s Lady Eats Apple (Back to Back); RISING Festival’s Golden Square; Book of Exodus PartII (Fraught Outfit); Exil and The Howling Girls (Sydney Chamber Opera, Tokyo Festival); The Seen and Unseen(Asia TOPA) Guài (Science Gallery Melbourne) and Shanghai Mimi (Sydney Festival).

    Some of his works have been presented at and recognized at International Festivals including Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Darwin Festivals, Theatretreffen (Berlin), Tokyo Festival – World Competition, Pesta Raya Malay Festival of Arts in Singapore and Music Theatre Now Network of International Theatre Institute in Rotterdam.

    He has previously worked as an architect, with LAB Architecture Studio, Tridente Architects, and RotheLowman Architects.

    In 2019, Eugyeene presented a fashion collection at New York Fashion Week in collaboration with Angela Clark.

    In 2020-2022, he was the co-president of the Green Room Awards Association with Sepideh Kian. He was the co-chair of the GRAA Independent Panel in 2018 and 2019.

    Eugyeene is a recipient of a Green Room Award and has been nominated for three Sydney Theatre Awards. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Fellowship and the Besen Family Artist placement.

     

    Emily Shen

    Emily is a senior lawyer in the Fintech + Web3 team of Gilbert + Tobin’s Corporate Advisory practice. Her expertise focuses on navigating complex financial services regulatory regimes in the context of payments, fintech and crypto. She has significant experience providing tailored advice to institutions of all sizes with respect to product, governance, risk and strategy. Prior to this, Emily was an arts and culture reporter covering theatre, dance, film and comedy for Alt Media, which publishes City Hub.

    Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts (Media & Communications) and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney. She is also a certified product owner and scrum master through Scrum Alliance.

     

     

    Founded in 1982 as the Australian Content Division of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust (AETT), Performing Lines incorporated as an independent non-profit organisation in 1990.

    We’ve worked with many of Australia’s leading contemporary performing artists and companies. Highlights include Nigel Jamieson and Paul Grabowsky’s extraordinary Indonesian collaboration The Theft of Sita; Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman’s The 7 Stages of Grieving; William Yang’s Sadness; Tanja Liedtke’s construct and Twelfth Floor; the Chooky Dancers and Nigel Jamieson’s Ngurrumilmarrmiriyu (Wrong Skin); and Wesley Enoch’s I am Eora.

    We’ve had a significant influence on the Australian theatre scene, and particularly in the touring and presentation of Aboriginal theatre. Performing Lines toured Robert Merritt’s The Cake Man to Denver, Colorado in 1982 – the first time an Australian Aboriginal production toured internationally. Other significant works include ILBIJERRI’S Jack Charles V the Crown’; Jack Davis’ The Dreamers, No Sugar and Honeyspot; Sally Morgan’s Sister Girl and the Indigenous musical Bran Nue Dae.

    Performing Lines has produced some of the most exciting and significant contemporary theatre and dance practitioners, including Lucy Guerin, Force Majeure, version 1.0, Chamber Made Opera, Back to Back Theatre, post and Aphids.

    More recently, we have produced a range of works from artists including Nicola Gunn, Lz Dunn, Ghenoa Gela, Roslyn Oades, Ahilan Ratnamohan, The Farm, Gravity & Other Myths and Chunky Move.

    Our History

    In everything we do, we acknowledge that we live on Aboriginal land and constantly learn from the wisdom of First Peoples.

    Where we are and the history that precedes us informs how we work and how we move forward. 

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this website may contain images, voices and names of deceased persons.