Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

Richard Watts's Latest Articles

Features

20x20: What to do when you're defunded

After the tears and the rage, what should your next step be if your funding is cut, or axed altogether?…

Career Advice

Top 3 tips for emerging arts managers (from the archives)

With many in the sector working in administrative roles, we’ve asked arts leaders from Darwin to Hobart and Perth to…

Career Advice

Essential skills of a great arts administrator (from the archives)

Facilitation and strategy, nurturing artists' ideas, and examining challenges at a macro and micro level simultaneously: arts administrators are the…

Career Advice

Six essential videos to help you get your art online

Produced in partnership with Creative Victoria, our Artists Essential Toolkit video series covers the fundamentals of getting your work online…

Features

From addiction to recovery: unpicking the challenges of the rock'n'roll lifestyle

From gigging musician to rock star, musicians’ lives present a range of wellbeing challenges. A new book offers professional perspectives,…

Features

5 tips for wellbeing in lockdown

Psychologist and soprano Greta Bradman, a member of the Arts Wellbeing Collective Advisory Group, offers up some simple advice about…

News

Arts, activism and audio: The ArtsHubbub episode two

In the second episode of our monthly podcast we speak about politics in art and the importance of reaching an…

Career Advice

Cultivating resilience in the face of chaos (from the archives)

Connectedness, self-care, a playful outlook and finding meaning in difficult experiences can help you bounce back from setbacks.

Features

How would an Oscar change your life? (from the archives)

Fame, fortune and your pick of the best projects – or over-exposure, exploitation and unhappiness? What happens when you win…

Features

When to say no to sponsorship

As the climate crisis deepens, should Australian arts organisations reject sponsorship and donations from the fossil fuel sector?

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