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Julieanne Campbell (Chair)
Julieanne has considerable leadership experience in the not-for-profit sector with an emphasis on strategy, business performance, marketing, fundraising and stakeholder management. She began her working life as a journalist in Jakarta and became involved in cultural exchange between Indonesia and Australia for several years. She then travelled to New York where she worked with two of the city’s most highly regarded arts marketing firms, Blue Medium and Fitz & Co, developing international clients including Art Basel, the Guggenheim Museum and the Venice Biennale. Returning to Australia, Julieanne was General Manager for leading arts companies including Performance Space, Parramasala and Urban Theatre Projects, where she developed a number of successful philanthropy programs. Her passion for donor development deepened at Sydney Dance Company and Belvoir Theatre. In 2019, Julieanne joined the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation as Head of Philanthropy and was soon promoted to the Executive and appointed General Manager, Development, responsible for 60% of the Foundation’s $50 million fundraising income. Julieanne returned to the arts in 2021 to take up the position of Executive Director of Griffin Theatre Company.

Julieanne has served on several Boards, including Chair of PACT Centre for Emerging Artists and Theatre Network NSW. Julieanne is a Co-founder and Director of Sydney-based management consultancy Cobalt59.

Lucy Gardoll (Treasurer)
Lucy is a Chartered Accountant who started her career at KPMG supporting small to medium size enterprises - including not-for-profits - with tax, accounting and audit services. Her notable clients included Diversity Council Australia, Opera Australia and The Funding Network. She also supported for-profit companies during their growth stages such as ASX listed company MoneyMe. Lucy then transitioned to consulting and worked in transformational program management and change. She helped organisations to prioritise strategic programs, design internal processes and structures, and deliver and embed complex change.  Lucy now works at Xero as a Strategy and Operations Manager, focused on setting the organisational objectives and key results, and supporting Executive decision making. Outside of work, she has a passion for the arts and hopes to increase engagement and inclusion of young and diverse audiences in Australia's arts space. 

Kudzai Chipangura
Kudzai is a Tax Partner with KPMG in Greater Western Sydney. Kudzai has over 18 years professional experience working with ASX listed entities, subsidiaries of foreign multinational groups private and not-for-profit organisations.

Kudzai provides a full range of income tax services including developing appropriate business structures and funding arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, capital management, business restructures and assisting clients in their dealings with the Australian Taxation Office.

Kudzai’s tax-technical foundations and passion combined with over 18 years’ experience means he has a firm grasp of the commercial realities that confront growing and established businesses and the tax issues that they face. To that end, he brings a global mindset and forward-thinking, yet practical approach to his clients.

Kudzai has worked with many public and private companies providing a full range of income tax services across a broad range of sectors such as property development and construction, technology, media, manufacturing and retail.

Rani Haywood
For over two decades Rani has held senior leadership roles at an array of performing arts and cultural organisations in Australia and the United States, including at The Metropolitan Opera and Roundabout Theatre Company in New York, and Sydney Theatre Company, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney.

Rani has acted in a consulting capacity throughout her career, and from 2020-2024 was Vice President of New York City-based arts and cultural marketing consultancy, Tom O’Connor Consulting Group, working with clients across the United States and in Australia. She is currently Director Experience and Engagement at the State Library of New South Wales, where she oversees public programs, exhibitions, partnerships, marketing and communications.

Rani previously served as a director on the boards of de Quincey co, a dance-theatre performance company, and Brand X, who provide subsidised workspace for artists. She has been a guest presenter at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Yale School of Drama and NIDA, and is regularly invited to present at industry events and conferences.

Stephanie Purcell
Stephanie is a lawyer at a global commercial law firm. She advises government and private sector clients on major infrastructure and general commercial transactions, with a particular focus on social infrastructure, social impact bonds and complex procurements across a range of sectors, including housing, transport, education, mixed-use precincts, energy, investment attraction and the arts. She also has experience in dispute resolution and advising companies on strategic corporate governance and risk issues.  

Stephanie was formerly a Tipstaff to Judges at the Supreme Court of NSW and served as a Board Director and President of her university Union. She is currently a member of the UTS Law Advisory Board, a volunteer for the Refugee Advice & Casework Service, a coordinator of the LEAPS (Lawyers Encouraging and Assisting Promising Students) Mentoring Program and a Mental Health Champion at her workplace.

Danielle Micich
Danielle Micich is a highly-awarded choreographer, director and performer of dance theatre. She makes new work for festivals, theatre productions, opera and film, alongside site-specific and community work. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts and relocating to Perth as a company dancer for 2 Dance Plus, she was appointed Artistic Director of STEPS Youth Dance Company. Her independent work extends nationally and internationally, working with companies such as Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Perth Theatre Company, Night Train Productions, Steamworks Arts Productions, Dwhani Dance Company (India), Barking Gecko Theatre Company, Pinchgut Opera and Monkey Baa Theatre. Danielle’s ambition is to contribute to making new Australian work through storytelling that reaches audiences by exploring themes and issues relevant to contemporary culture; reflecting, embracing and challenging community attitudes and ideals.

Helen Porter
Helen studied law at UWA and worked at the WA Crown Law Department WA from February 1983 until December 1991. 

In 1992 she joined the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions WA, where she worked as a Crown/State prosecutor, case manager and administrator until her appointment to head the WA Office of Criminal Injuries Compensation in 2003. This role was a head of jurisdiction position involving significant administrative, management, reporting and planning duties, legislative drafting and implementation, as well as legal decision making.

Helen continued in that role until January 2019, and was then appointed as an Independent Decision Maker for the National Redress Scheme (for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse) where she continues to work.

Helen’s legal practice has been largely in the area of criminal law and restitution and compensation for survivors of crime. She has had significant exposure to the impact of trauma through interaction with survivors both as witnesses in criminal prosecutions and participants in the restitution processes, and has been interested in exploring the embodiment of trauma and its resolution and expression.

Rachael Maza
Rachael Maza is Yidinji (FNQ), Meriam (TSI), and Dutch, and is the Artistic Director of llbijerri Theatre Company (2008 – present). Rachael is known for her work on stage and screen: she was the presenter on the ABC’s Message Stick, stage play and the film Radiance, Sapphires, Holy Day and Beautiful One Day, and was an acting coach for the film Rabbit Proof Fence.

Her awards include: 2003 Uncle Bob Maza Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Victorian Indigenous Theatre - The VIPA Awards, The Drovers Award for Touring Legend, Australia Council 2019 Theatre Award, 2019 Honorary Doctorate for Performing Arts ECU and the Inaugural Alumni Award ECU 2019. In 2020, she received an AM (Order of Australia) for her work in the Performing Arts, and was the recipient of the Greenroom Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.

Rachael’s Ilbijerri directing credits include: Stolen, Chopped Liver; Jack Charles V the Crown, Foley, Which Way Home, My Urrwai, Black Ties and Heart is a Wasteland.

Kate Sheppard
Kate Sheppard has over 20 years corporate experience in the advertising and marketing industry, growing brands and businesses for McDonald’s, Virgin Australia, Arnott’s, Mars Wrigley, Unilever, PepsiCo and J&J - in both local and international markets. She’s also done pro-bono work for some preeminent not-for-profit organisations such as Clean Up Australia, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, and the National Association to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN). Most of her career has been at DDB Worldwide (Sydney & New York) - one of the world’s largest and highly awarded advertising agencies - with a stint at M&C Saatchi before that. Kate has extensive experience leading high performance, cross functional teams and is passionate about building inclusive, values-driven cultures where individuals thrive on creativity. Kate’s skills include strategic leadership, operational excellence, complex stakeholder engagement and critical problem solving.

Her personal and professional passions have always circled around different forms of storytelling - she began her working life as a travel writer for Vogue magazine, then spent two decades helping clients craft their brand narratives and communication strategies, during which she even ran her own side-hustle designing cupcakes for weddings and other special events. Outside of work, she has long been a passionate consumer and supporter of the Arts, with a particular interest in theatre and live performances.

Kate served as a non-executive director on the Board of the Griffin Theatre company between 2006-2011 during a time of significant re-branding and fundraising, before having her son and twin daughters in fast succession. She appeared on the very first episode of The Gruen Transfer in 2009, has taught courses in Business Management at the Advertising Council of Australia, is a qualified Mental Health First Aider, and is a mentor on the LK Connect program for her alma mater Loreto Kirribilli. Kate holds a Bachelor of Business (Marketing & Finance) from UTS.