Facebook campaign depicting women directors aims to tackle entrenched bias

A new initiative by the Australian Women Directors’ Alliance aims to normalise images of women as creative leaders by flooding Facebook with photographs of women in leadership positions.

11 Jan 2019

Richard Watts

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Performing Arts

Kate Kelly directing Animal Farm, 2018. With Kate Dyer, Cat Hart, Nyasha Ogden, Michael Van Berkel, Leo Boudib and Isaac Reid. Photo by Tony Rive via Facebook.

Every day in 2019, the Australian Women Directors’ Alliance (AWDA) will share a photograph on Facebook depicting a female-identifying artist in a creative leadership position.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts