Elaine is an arts leader, advocate and producer with over 20 years’ experience in senior roles in the performing and visual arts across venues, festivals, touring and cultural infrastructure projects. Her previous roles include Executive Director at the Adelaide Festival, CEO at Sydney’s City Recital Hall and Director of International Signature Projects at the Australia Council for the Arts delivering as public-private partnership projects the Australian representation at three Venice Art Biennales and the redevelopment of the Australian Pavilion in Venice, Italy.

Rose is a producer and arts manager with a background in major festivals, performance and visual arts, commissioning and arts admin. Before she moved to Melbourne from the UK, she worked on exhibitions and in theatre venues in London. What gets her up in the morning is working with cultural practitioners to realise deeply felt collective experiences, no matter to what scale or genre they appear to belong. She has a devotion to problem solving and generally making things happen!

Phoebe is a producer and visual artist with a background in festival programming and arts administration. She has experience producing large scale participatory and community events and loves working with independent artists across performing and visual arts to realise their visions.

Kat has over ten years’ experience in marketing and communications strategy in the arts, media, and not-for-profits. A former musician, her background is in arts and festivals in Melbourne, with senior marketing roles at Melbourne Fringe, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Melbourne Food and Wine, and the ABC. She loves making the complex simple and building collaborative strategies with compassion, humour, and respect.

Gabriela has dabbled in many fields across many continents throughout her career. Her prior roles have included Operations Manager at architecture practice Fieldwork, producer on large-scale film productions in Peru and Bolivia, and over 10 years as an ESL teacher. She also has extensive experience in editing and translation and has freelanced for various publications, including Assemble Papers, Le Cool Barcelona and Moon Handbooks in Peru.

A legend of the Melbourne arts scene, Paulie has been a member of the MPavilion family since 2016 – starting in the front of house team before moving into the role of Site Operations Manager & Music Programmer. In between MPavilion seasons, he can be found enjoying the quiet life in Castlemaine or flexing his event management skills at Golden Plains, Meredith Music Festival and Rising Melbourne. Wherever he is, he brings positive vibes, good music and an inimitable wardrobe.

Tom’s production management experience runs through Melbourne’s Festival calendar. From White Night, Melbourne Fringe Festival and Melbourne Writers Festival, through to Melbourne International Comedy Festival, he has helped stage events that give Melbourne its unique creative identity. In between times he has established an independent music venue, instigated a street festival, run front of house in theatres, and absconded from Melbourne to join festivals in Adelaide and New Zealand.

With a formal background in architecture and varied experience in project management and post-production, Monica is happiest when problem-solving. An avid maker and lifelong learner, she has most recently worked on community, craft and exhibition initiatives.

Andrew’s work in education focuses upon the power of the direct encounter with works of architecture, art and design. His pedagogical approach involves providing learners with opportunities to experience new and unfamiliar forms and ideas within a supportive environment, with the goal of stimulating curiosity, experimentation and inquiry. Andrew is especially interested in public spaces as dynamic sites that reflect – through their combinations of architecture, design and art – the unique communities to which they belong. He has worked with students across early learning, primary, secondary, tertiary and adult education contexts.