Head of Finance

Organisational Purpose & Overview

Based on Wadawurrung Country in the Victorian regional centre of Geelong, Back to Back Theatre is widely recognised as an Australian theatre company of national and international significance. The company is driven by an ensemble of actors who are perceived to have intellectual disabilities and is considered one of Australia’s most important cultural exporters. We contend our operation as a theatre company is beyond expectation of possibility: an affirmation for human potential. The company’s existence contributes to the richness and diversity of Australian life and palpably projects Geelong, Victoria and Australia to the world as innovative, sophisticated and dynamic.

Back to Back Theatre has received 23 national and international awards including the 2024 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre, the 2022 International Ibsen Award, a Helpmann Award for Best Australian Work, an Edinburgh International Festival Herald Angel Critics’ Award, two Age Critics’ Awards, a New York Bessie and the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Group Award for our long-standing contribution to the development of Australian theatre. In 2015, Bruce Gladwin received the Australia Council for the Arts’ Inaugural Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre. The ensemble was awarded the ‘Best Ensemble’ in the 2019 Green Room Awards.

We acknowledge we live and work on the lands of the Wadawurrung people. We pay respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge there is no treaty and that this is stolen land. We acknowledge the lands of First Nations people everywhere, in Australia and in the world.We are friends of LGBTQIA+ and Indigenous peoples. We recognise the discrimination people from these groups have suffered. We advocate for the inclusion and advancement of all identities in our company and in society