JOSHUA LOWE

I am a business leader of creative and not-for-profit organisations, working at the intersection of social enterprise and business management. Now residing permanently in Melbourne, I am currently studying an MBA part-time at Melbourne Business School.

Since April 2021 I have been the General Manager of Theatre Network Australia. In my time I have led a number of key advocacy efforts for the national performing arts sector, developed LeaderShift (a program that addresses the lack of diversity in performing arts organisations’ leadership), and implemented new operations and governance procedures at TNA to facilitate its rapid growth.

I am an alumni of the Australia Council for the Arts Future Leaders Program (2019), and an Australian Progress Fellowship (2022), and in 2023 will be mentored by Feyi Akindoyeni from SEC Newgate with support from the Australia Council.

Until 2020 I was the founding CEO and Artistic Director of DRILL, a non-profit dance organisation specialising in working with young people, based in Hobart. Between 2007 and 2020 I led DRILL's artistic programming, and secured federal and state funding to grow the company into a nationally significant organisation. I was awarded the Premier's Young Achiever of the Year Award for my work with DRILL.

Between 2018 and 2019 I was also the Artistic Director of Melbourne’s pre-professional dance company, Yellow Wheel, previously working as the founding Company Manager since 2012.

A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), my career has included numerous choreographic commissions and solo performances. I am an Asialink alumni, and spent time working in Sumatra with Institut Seni Indonesia, lecturing in contemporary dance, and creating a new work.

CONTACT ME

josh@joshualowe.com.au
+61 408 660 748

Melbourne, Australia