Our Board

The Performing Lines Board has representatives from business, media and the arts, chaired by Robi Stanton.

Current Members

Robi Stanton (Chair), Media & Entertainment Executive and Advisor, Elliott St Advisory
Anne-Marie Heath (Deputy Chair), Executive Director at The Arts House, Wyong
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
Natalie Jenkins, CEO at Short Back and Sidewalks
Michelle Kvello, Director at Lantern Partners
Eugyeene Teh, Independent Artist, Designer and Architect
Margaret Ross, Executive Producer, Scripted & Factual Children’s Content at ABC

Robi Stanton | Chair

Robi Stanton is an experienced media executive with a strong focus on delivering strategic transformations and business development. Robi was at Warner Media for over 15 years in a range of senior leadership roles across Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. Robi currently provides advisory and consulting service to media and entertainment companies in both Australia and Asia. She is highly skilled in consumer and audience strategy, digital product development, financial management, marketing, and commercial deal making.

Robi has a Bachelor of Arts from UNSW and a Master of Business from UTS. Robi is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is currently Chair of Performing Lines and has been a Director of Carriageworks since February 2023.

Robi is an active advocate and driver of diversity and gender equality. She mentors female athletes with Minerva Network, participates regularly in Mentor Walks and is a committee member of Chief Executive Women and International Women’s Forum Australia.

Natalie Jenkins
Deputy Chair

Natalie Jenkins has over 30 years’ experience as an arts/culture and creative industries leader. She has led a number of highly successful arts organisations, including Co-CEO/Executive Director of Black Swan State Theatre Company in Western Australia. Most recently, she was leading in the commercial creative industries as CEO of Block Branding and late in 2023, returned to the Not-For-Profit sector as CEO of the national organisation Short, Back & Sidewalks. Natalie ran her own strategic advisory business for 8 years, offering high level advice and project management for the cultural, corporate and community sectors and has taught the next generation of arts managers over a period of 16 years, as a sessional academic in the Arts Management degree at WAAPA (Edith Cowan University). Natalie has a degree in Arts Management from WAAPA (ECU) and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Natalie has been a member of a number of national and state-based boards and advisory committees including: Chair of the Blue Room Theatre, President of the Australian Performing Arts Centres Association (now PAC Australia), Deputy Chair of Regional Arts Australia and Chair of Stages WA. She is a former member of the Commonwealth Government’s Playing Australia and Festivals Australia Committee; the Healthway Board, including chair of its Arts Advisory Committee and the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board. Natalie is currently Chair of Seesaw Magazine and Board member of Future Now – the workforce development advisory council for the creative, leisure and service sectors in WA. She established and was founding Chair of IN:WA – an advocacy body for Western Australia’s independent commercial creative businesses.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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