BOARD

Chair

John Dunleavy

Barrister and Chartered Accountant

John's business career spans twenty years and includes significant corporate advisory and specialist consulting roles on behalf of a diverse range of clientele throughout Australia and overseas. Previously, John held senior roles with major accounting firms including Price Waterhouse and Earnst & Young before establishing his own consulting business in 1995. John is a Chartered Accountant, licensed customs broker and was recently admitted as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland. He is a regular presenter and author on a range of business topics including corporate governance.

 

Members

Jennifer Cahill

Corporate Marketing Manager

Jennifer Cahill is Corporate Marketing Manager at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), responsible for non-show marketing, market research, audience development and management of the overall QPAC brand. Jennifer’s career in marketing with organisations such as Nestle Confectionery, Suncorp and Ergon Energy, has equipped her with skills in high level marketing strategy development, internal and external communications, project management, brand development and implementation and consumer and stakeholder research. In addition to her business degree, Jennifer gained a Diploma in Performing Arts from USQ and her earlier (brief) career as an actress has ensured an ongoing passion for live performance and a desire to share the arts with as wide an audience as possible.

 

Penny Everingham

Performing Artist

Penny's artistic career spans more than 40 years and has seen her perform, direct and teach in theatre, film, radio and peuppetry throughout Australia and Asia. She is a NIDA graduate, (Bachelor Dramatic Art) with additional training in music, singing (Conservatorium of Music, Sydney) movement (Heather Gell, Margaret Barr-Dance Drama) stage management, voice and puppetry. In 1963, Penny joined the Marionette Theatre of Australia at its inception as an actor/puppeteer and was promoted to artistic director. Penny's credits in Queensland include seasons at Gyre Theatre (Michael Beh), Debacle (Jean-Marc Russ), Mog Roth (Eugene Gilfedder), Queensland Performing Arts Centre as well as La Boite and the Queensland Theatre Company, most recently in 'The Venetian Twin' and 'Oedipus the King'. She is a founding member of a newly formed group of mature actors in Brisbane named The Forgetting of Wisdom collective. Their first play, 'I don't want to die in Melbourne', was a sell-out.

   

Gemma Smith

Visual Artist

Gemma Smith is a visual artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally.  After completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts(Hons) at the Queensland University of Technology (2004) and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (painting) at Sydney College of the Arts (1999), she studied colour theory at Parson School of Design in New York (2005). Gemma has participated in visual arts in Australia on a number of levels. Gemma has  has held positions in Education at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, in Cultural Development at the Gold Coast City Council, and in a commercial art gallery.