Lindy Hume

​Director

Lindy Hume AM is one of Australia’s leading directors, acknowledged internationally for fresh interpretations of a wide variety of repertoire and progressive artistic leadership of Australian arts organisations and festivals including Perth Festival, Sydney Festival, Tasmania’s Ten Days on the Island and Four Winds Festival. Her thoughtfully curated and welcoming festivals left a substantial legacy of stellar global creations, bold new Australian works, projects fore-fronting contemporary First Nation cultures, progressive socially engaged practice and deep community connections in regional and urban centres across Australia.

Equally at home in opera, Lindy Hume has served as Artistic Director of four Australian opera companies: West Australian Opera, Victorian Opera, OzOpera and Opera Queensland. She was the interim Creative Director and Artistic Adviser for Opera Australia’s Sydney Summer Season 2024.

As a stage director, she regularly creates new theatre and opera productions in Australia, NZ, Europe, US and the UK, including major productions for renowned international companies such as San Francisco Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Seattle Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Des Moines Metropolitan Opera, Royal Swedish Opera Stockholm, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Aldeburgh Festival, Welsh National Opera and eight productions for New Zealand Opera. In Australia she has created 100+ small-to-large-scale productions, many new Australian works, and won two Helpmann Awards, for best director and best production. She has created many productions for Opera Australia and the state companies as well as four Pinchgut Opera productions and is well-known for creating productions that are intelligent yet accessible, boldly theatrical and oriented toward feminist / humanist narratives.

Academically, Lindy Hume holds a Graduate Diploma in Arts Administration from the University of South Australia in 2007, an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from The University of Western Australia in recognition of her contribution to the cultural life of Western Australia, and in 2021 received her PhD from Queensland University of Technology. In the 2021 Australia Day Honours, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to the performing arts, particularly to opera.

Hume is recognised as one of Australia’s leading thinkers and writers on creative life in regional Australia and lives between the Far South Coast of NSW and the North of Tasmania. Her experience and deep interest in creative practice outside metropolitan centres inform her PhD thesis A Bigger Picture: Toward a Landscape Oriented Creative Practice, which she is currently turning into a book.

Lindy is currently the Creative Director of Crimson Rosella Creative Adventures, a new cultural enterprise in regional Australia whose portfolio encompasses the creative leadership of HotHouse Theatre in Albury Wodonga. As a director, writer and creative leader, she welcomes the prospect of exploring unexpected new directions and creative adventures.