

Behind the Scenes 15th December 2025
A bit of poetry to get us going this week with award winning poet and playwright Emilie Collyer who has a new collection of works called As If I’m Really There… funny that, because she really is here… Then we’re getting in early on the 2026 Midsumma Festival with CEO Karen Bryant who’s here to giv…

Behind the Scenes 8th December 2025
Jake Lynch & Annabel McGoldrick met in 1992 when they were reporters for Yorkshire Television. They married and moved to Australia where, these days, he lectures in Social Justice at Sydney University and she’s a psychotherapist. But now, they’ve combined all those experiences in a murder mystery n…

Behind the Scenes 1st December 2025
It's our last Theatre Network Australia segment for 2026 which means Yuhui Ng Rodriguez is here for a final wrap up and to tell us who our final TNA Member of the Month is… here’s a clue – multidisciplinary artist and creative producer Teneille Clerke is hanging on the line… Then, it's our last vi…

Behind the Scenes 24th November 2025
With International Day of People with a Disability only a week or so away, we get in early… first for a chat with Eliza Hull who’ll be hosting the Live Nation gig – One’s to Watch, an artists with disability showcase… …and then, to meet Co-Artistic Director of Rawcus Theatre Morgan Rose to chat ab…

Behind the Scenes 17th November 2025
For the last time this year, we’ll start the show in Perth with Boola Bardip WA Museum’s Helen Simondson who’s here for her regular round up AND to introduce her local guest artist – Kate Champion, recently appointed Black Swan Theatre Artistic Director and Director of the new Meow Meow production …

Behind the Scenes 10th November 2025
For the last time this year, we say welcome back to InSite Arts’Elena Vereker for our regular Adelaide round up AND an introduction to her local guest artist – stage and screen writer, lecturer, director, and co-founder of South Australian Playwrights Theatre, Matt Hawkins. Then we’re off to Balla…

Behind the Scenes 3rd November 2025
It's the first show for November and so we’re swinging by the Theatre Network Australia office for a chat with Charice Rust who will also introduce us to the TNA Member of the Month, Anna Molnar, Programme Manager – Disability, Arts Access and Inclusion at Arts Centre Melbourne… Then, keeping on t…

Anna Molnar, Programme Manager: Disability, Arts Access and Inclusion, Arts Centre Melbourne
Recently, Chris Thompson (Presenter of Behind the Scenes) visited Arts Centre Melbourne to meet Anna Molnar, Programme Manager: Disability, Arts Access and Inclusion. Anna is a theatre director, dramaturg, facilitator, producer and a Board Member with Rawcus Theatre. Her work in access and inclusio…

Behind the Scenes 27th October 2025
We start this week with Liz Rogers, General Manager of Browns Mart for a Darwin catch up before we meet Sally Crawford, Chair of Darwin Theatre Company who’ll tell us about Seventeen, their new collaboration with Corrugated Iron Youth Arts… Then we catch up with LA based Aussie comedian Monty Fran…

Behind The Scenes Special Podcast – Rachel Edward
Rachel Edward is a Creative Producer with Arts Access and oversees the Supported Residential Services (SRS) Studios. Artists from the SRS Studios have been working with Golden Scissor Puppets to explore the many different ways in which they can create puppets. They have not only opened the doors to…