Kim Spinks BA (Hons History) Dip Lib

Kim is currently a director at City People, a creative placemaking and planning consultancy and a lecturer in cultural policy at NIDA. At Arts (now Create) NSW, for twenty years, she worked in a variety of positions including Manager Arts Strategy and Planning, A/Director Arts Development and  A/Director Strategy & Capacity and for 9 years managed the state funding for theatre and dance. In her last position as Manager Strategic Initiatives she led the team responsible for programs such as the Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Strategy, the Arts and Disability Partnership and the NSW Health and Arts Framework.

Previously Kim spent twenty years in the performing arts in many different professional capacities. She is a co-founder of UtP (formerly Death Defying Theatre) and worked as a dramaturg with the late theatre director Rex Cramphorn and for companies such as Sydney Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of SA, Stalker Stilt Theatre, Playworks and One Extra Dance. Kim has published books and articles on Australian theatre and was an associate for many years with the Centre for Performance Studies at Sydney University.