Tania Price has a professional background in stakeholder and issues management, and communication, in both the public and corporate sectors.

With a PhD in the creative arts from UTAS, she is a current member of the UTAS Council as well as Chair of the Theatre Royal Management Board. Tania is a former Board member of Tasmania’s Festival of Voices, and of Tasracing.

Anthea Pritchard has a background in marketing, strategy and business. She is a founder of several Tasmanian businesses, including General Manager Salamanca Wharf Hotel,  Silver Spoon Ice Cream, Wicked Cheese and the Tasmanian Leaders Program.  She has held a number of senior sales and marketing roles, working for Blundstone and Boag’s amongst others.  She has served on the Boards of the Royal Hobart Hospital Research Foundation, Hobart Brewing Company and Big Monkey Theatre Company.

Benjamin Avanzi is Professor of Actuarial Studies at the University of Melbourne. He worked as an actuarial consultant in Switzerland and Canada and was Executive Chairman of the Board of a Swiss pension fund dedicated to the arts sector from 2006 to 2008. Since then, he held full-time academic positions in Australia and Canada. Before studying business and becoming an actuary, he studied cello performance (classical) at the Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland. Benjamin is a fully qualified Swiss actuary, a Fellow of the Australian Actuaries Institute (FIAA), a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary (CERA), and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

With over 20 years of experience in public and private sector leadership roles, Craig Limkin became Secretary of the Department of State Growth, Tasmania in 2023 (currently on leave) and has experience in leading strategy development and complex fiscal and capital projects across several sectors including the arts and cultural industry.

Tony Bonney has over 30 years’ experience in the Australian cultural and creative sector. Starting as the instigator of Western Australia’s Blue Room Theatre in 1991, he has gone on to work in senior roles within the Perth International Arts Festival, WA Museum and Hobart City Council, as well as General Manager of the Perth Theatre Company, Fremantle Arts Centre, Steps Youth Dance Company and more recently Director of Festival of Voices.

Tony has also lectured in Creative Arts Practice (Theatre) at Murdoch University and Arts Management at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and is currently an Associate of the Institute for Social Change at the University of Tasmania.

Ms Virginia Lovett is the inaugural Director of Performing Arts at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this she was the Executive Director and Co-CEO of Melbourne Theatre Company and Executive Director of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. A highly experienced and well-respected cultural leader, she has also held executive roles at Sydney Festival, Zoos Victoria, Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Theatre Company and the National Gallery of Victoria. She has worked as an advisor for State Ministers in Victoria and New South Wales.  

In 2006 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship and is a graduate of the Museum Leadership program. Ms Lovett is currently a Trustee of the Victorian Convention and Event Trust, Board Director on Belvoir St Theatre, Arts Project Australia and an Executive Council member of Live Performance Australia.