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    Ep.90: Andy Packer: Artistic Director/CEO, Slingsby - “Telling stories of darkness is really a way to point towards the light” (Audio)

    25/05/2026 | 47 mins.
    Andy is an award-winning director of theatre, music theatre and opera. He has also worked as creative producer of multidisciplinary arts programs, creative director of large-scale events and festival director. In 2007 Andy co-founded theatre company Slingsby, based on Kaurna Meyunna Yerta, Adelaide Plains.

    Slingsby is internationally renowned for emotionally powerful storytelling for audiences aged 8 and up. The company’s productions have toured across all states and territories of Australia alongside international touring in New Zealand, USA, Canada, Singapore, China, India, Spain, Norway, UK, Scotland and Ireland, with repeat invitations to New Victory Theatre - New York, Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival, Baboró International Arts Festival for Children and Sydney Opera House.

     

     

    “ATTENTION SPOTIFY LISTENERS: IF you want to WATCH this with VIDEO, you can also subscribe to our video version:

    https://open.spotify.com/show/5e9KnBRZdjUTXTvCe6Nrqm?si=6639537c61044396”

     

    @stagelync

    The StageLync Podcast is a branch of our larger StageLync Community. Come visit us at www.stagelync.com

     

    Credits for the StageLync Podcast

    Hosts: Anna Robb
    Editor: Rose Anne Fermocil
    Music: Jeremy Willi
    Design: Roselle Bernardo
    Production Coordinator: Roselle Bernardo and Alexandra Baxter
    Producers: Anna Robb and Andrea Honis
  • The StageLync Podcast

    Ep.90: Andy Packer: Artistic Director/CEO, Slingsby - “Telling stories of darkness is really a way to point towards the light” (Video)

    25/05/2026 | 47 mins.
    Andy is an award-winning director of theatre, music theatre and opera. He has also worked as creative producer of multidisciplinary arts programs, creative director of large-scale events and festival director. In 2007 Andy co-founded theatre company Slingsby, based on Kaurna Meyunna Yerta, Adelaide Plains.

    Slingsby is internationally renowned for emotionally powerful storytelling for audiences aged 8 and up. The company’s productions have toured across all states and territories of Australia alongside international touring in New Zealand, USA, Canada, Singapore, China, India, Spain, Norway, UK, Scotland and Ireland, with repeat invitations to New Victory Theatre - New York, Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival, Baboró International Arts Festival for Children and Sydney Opera House.

     

    @stagelync

    The StageLync Podcast is a branch of our larger StageLync Community. Come visit us at www.stagelync.com

     

    Credits for the StageLync Podcast

    Hosts: Anna Robb
    Editor: Rose Anne Fermocil
    Music: Jeremy Willi
    Design: Roselle Bernardo
    Production Coordinator: Roselle Bernardo and Alexandra Baxter
    Producers: Anna Robb and Andrea Honis
  • The StageLync Podcast

    Ep.89: Erica McCalman: Creative Director & Strategist - “What we need more than ever isn’t social cohesion, but belonging and empathy” (Audio)

    11/05/2026 | 42 mins.
    Erica McCalman (she/her) is a creative director, speaker and convenor working at the intersection of experimental art, climate and systems change.

    She is interested in regenerative economies, opening opportunities for collaboration between different lived experiences, connecting people to deeper conversations and uplifting new models and narratives in service of people and planet.

    Her producing credits include Darwin Festival, Sydney Festival, Next Wave, Performance Space, APAM, Melbourne Fringe and Sydney WorldPride. She has mentored and facilitated for organisations including A Climate for Art (ACFA), Vitalstatistix, Hyphenated Projects, Creative Australia, Performing Lines, Darwin Fringe and Artback NT.

    For more than a decade Erica has been an advocate for the arts through grassroots efforts driven by the sector and her association with Theatre Network Australia. She has served on the boards of Theatre Network Australia, ILBIJERRI, La Mama Theatre Company and on the advisory group for the Arts Wellbeing Collective.

    As a speaker she is known for balancing warmth and good humour with unflinching insight into the complexities we navigate in turbulent times.

    A Ballardong Noongar woman with Irish convict, Scottish and Cornish heritage, she is also neurodivergent.

    Erica is a graduate of Small Giants Academy’s Mastery of Business and Empathy and Climate Leadership Accelerator programs. In 2008 Erica attained her Bachelor of Fine Art (Production) from the University of Melbourne, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts.

     

    “ATTENTION SPOTIFY LISTENERS: IF you want to WATCH this with VIDEO, you can also subscribe to our video version:

    https://open.spotify.com/show/5e9KnBRZdjUTXTvCe6Nrqm?si=6639537c61044396”

     

    @stagelync

    The StageLync Podcast is a branch of our larger StageLync Community. Come visit us at www.stagelync.com

     

    Credits for the StageLync Podcast

    Hosts: Anna Robb
    Editor: Rose Anne Fermocil
    Music: Jeremy Willi
    Design: Roselle Bernardo
    Production Coordinator: Roselle Bernardo and Alexandra Baxter
    Producers: Anna Robb and Andrea Honis
  • The StageLync Podcast

    Ep.89: Erica McCalman: Creative Director & Strategist - “What we need more than ever isn’t social cohesion, but belonging and empathy” (Video)

    11/05/2026 | 42 mins.
    Erica McCalman (she/her) is a creative director, speaker and convenor working at the intersection of experimental art, climate and systems change.

    She is interested in regenerative economies, opening opportunities for collaboration between different lived experiences, connecting people to deeper conversations and uplifting new models and narratives in service of people and planet.

    Her producing credits include Darwin Festival, Sydney Festival, Next Wave, Performance Space, APAM, Melbourne Fringe and Sydney WorldPride. She has mentored and facilitated for organisations including A Climate for Art (ACFA), Vitalstatistix, Hyphenated Projects, Creative Australia, Performing Lines, Darwin Fringe and Artback NT.

    For more than a decade Erica has been an advocate for the arts through grassroots efforts driven by the sector and her association with Theatre Network Australia. She has served on the boards of Theatre Network Australia, ILBIJERRI, La Mama Theatre Company and on the advisory group for the Arts Wellbeing Collective.

    As a speaker she is known for balancing warmth and good humour with unflinching insight into the complexities we navigate in turbulent times.

    A Ballardong Noongar woman with Irish convict, Scottish and Cornish heritage, she is also neurodivergent.

    Erica is a graduate of Small Giants Academy’s Mastery of Business and Empathy and Climate Leadership Accelerator programs. In 2008 Erica attained her Bachelor of Fine Art (Production) from the University of Melbourne, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts.

     

    @stagelync

    The StageLync Podcast is a branch of our larger StageLync Community. Come visit us at www.stagelync.com

     

    Credits for the StageLync Podcast

    Hosts: Anna Robb
    Editor: Rose Anne Fermocil
    Music: Jeremy Willi
    Design: Roselle Bernardo
    Production Coordinator: Roselle Bernardo and Alexandra Baxter
    Producers: Anna Robb and Andrea Honis
  • The StageLync Podcast

    Ep.88: Donna Walker-Kuhne: President, Walker International Communications Group - “Everyone can be a change maker” (Audio)

    27/04/2026 | 46 mins.
    Donna is an award winning thought leader, writer and strategist for community engagement, audience development and social justice. She is President of Walker International Communications Group, Inc., a 40 year old boutique marketing and audience development consulting agency for arts and culture. Her client base is global and she is an Adjunct Professor at New York University and Columbia University.  
     
     

    “ATTENTION SPOTIFY LISTENERS: IF you want to WATCH this with VIDEO, you can also subscribe to our video version:

    https://open.spotify.com/show/5e9KnBRZdjUTXTvCe6Nrqm?si=6639537c61044396”

     

    @stagelync

    The StageLync Podcast is a branch of our larger StageLync Community. Come visit us at www.stagelync.com

     

    Credits for the StageLync Podcast

    Hosts: Anna Robb
    Editor: Rose Anne Fermocil
    Music: Jeremy Willi
    Design: Em Holt
    Production Coordinator: Roselle Bernardo
    Producers: Anna Robb and Andrea Honis
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The StageLync Podcast explores and exposes the amazing stories of people across the globe working in live entertainment and performing arts, onstage and backstage. Join us as we celebrate the creativity, resilience, and human expression that define the performing arts.
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