Julian Meyrick

Biography

Professor of Creative Arts at Griffith University and Literary Adviser for the Queensland Theatre. I have directed over 40 award-winning theatre productions, written the histories of five Australian theatre companies, and published numerous articles on Australian arts and cultural policy, including 90+ pieces for The Conversation. I was Literary Manager at the South Australia Theatre Company 2013-2019, Associate Director and Literary Advisor at Melbourne Theatre Company 2002-07, and Artistic Director of kickhouse theatre 1989-98. I was Deputy Chair of PlayWriting Australia 2004-09, and a member of the federal government’s Creative Australia Advisory Group 2008-10. I was General Editor of Currency House’s New Platform Paper series and also a board member of Northern River Performing Arts 2019-23. From 2013-2021, I was Lead CI for Laboratory Adelaide, an ARC project studying the problem of culture’s value, and from 2012-19, Lead CI for the AusStage performing arts database. My latest books are Australian Theatre after the New Wave: Policy, Subsidy and the Alternative Artist (Brill 2017), What Matters? Talking Value in Australian Culture, co-authored with Robert Phiddian and Tully Barnett (Monash Publishing 2018), Australia in 50 Plays (Currency Press 2022) and Theatre & Australia, (in Bloomsbury Publishing’s Theatre And series, 2024).