Annual Report 2013 Annual Report 2013 4 Objectives and Mission Statement 50 Open Door 6 Key Achievements 9 Board of Management 52 Literary 10 Chairman’s report Literary Director’s Report 12 Artistic Director’s report MTC is a department of the University of Melbourne 14 Executive Director’s report 54 Education 16 Government Support Education Manager’s Report and Sponsors 56 Education production – Beached 18 Patrons 58 Education Workshops and Participatory Events 20 2013 Mainstage Season MTC Headquarters 60 Neon: Festival of 252 Sturt St 22 The Other Place Independent Theatre Southbank VIC 3006 24 Constellations 03 8688 0900 26 Other Desert Cities 61 Daniel Schlusser Ensemble 28 True Minds 62 Fraught Outfit Southbank Theatre 30 One Man, Two Guvnors 63 The Hayloft Project 140 Southbank Blvd 32 Solomon and Marion 64 THE RABBLE Southbank VIC 3006 34 The Crucible 65 Sisters Grimm Box Office 03 8688 0800 36 The Cherry Orchard 66 NEON EXTRA 38 Rupert mtc.com.au 40 The Beast 68 Employment Venues 42 The Mountaintop Actors and Artists 2013 Throughout 2013 MTC performed its Melbourne season of plays at the 70 MTC Staff 2013 Southbank Theatre, The Sumner and The Lawler, 44 Add-on production and the Fairfax Studio and Playhouse at The Book of Everything 72 Financial Report Arts Centre Melbourne. 74 Key performance indicators 46 MTC on Tour: 76 Audit certificate Managing Editor Virginia Lovett Red 78 Financial Statement Graphic Designer Emma Wagstaff Cover Image Jeff Busby 48 Awards and nominations Production Photographers Jeff Busby, Heidrun Löhr Cover Roger Oakley, Pamela Rabe, David Paterson, Nikki Shiels and Gareth Davies in The Cherry Orchard 4 MTC Annual Report 2013 MTC Annual Report 2013 5 To enrich lives with understanding and empathy by the storytelling Vision power of the finest theatre imaginable To produce classic and contemporary Australian and international theatre with style, Purpose passion and excellence in order to entertain, challenge and enrich audiences Strategic goals 2013–2017 Establish new Develop new artistic Create a national Deliver a new look MTC Deliver a multi-faceted audiences – young people, relationships and partnerships presence with an (aesthetic style, new Artistic theatre program centred on families, Melbourne’s Theatre across the artistic community international profile team, stronger commitment diverse experiences which is Community to Australian writing, explore flexible and financially artistic boundaries) sustainable • Young audience • Open Door program • Co-productions • Re-brand (including • Family-friendly shows development • Alliances • Australian touring renaming MTC Theatre • Neon Festival (Festival of to Southbank Theatre) • Family-friendly shows • VCA relationship • International touring Independent theatre) • Neon Festival (Festival of • New website (increase • Play readings • Work with Major • Increase national media digital communications) Independent theatre) Festivals in Victoria coverage • Different genres • Commissions • Work closer with state theatre (Australian writing focus) • Improve philanthropy companies across Australia engagement • Employment opportunities for • Work closer with the different sort of artists • Revenue growth, funding independent theatre sector levels, cash reserves • Invest in training, EHS policies • Secondments and improve salaries • Mix revenue from • Age/gender/cultural focus different venues • Extended use of • Extension of HQ Southbank Theatre 6 MTC Annual Report 2013 Goal Deliver a multi-faceted, diverse and financial sustainable theatre program 2013 12 mainstage $23.2 million Net Surplus productions revenue $37,232 5 World Premieres 9% (net) 4 Melbourne theatres of Australian 677 Performances works government 32 audio-described Achievements 5 Australian Premieres grants and captioned 2 Revivals/adaptations 71.5% box office performances Goal Deliver a 8 Goal Goal 14 stage new-look MTC Establish graduate management, directors Develop new artistic design and new audiences and relationships directorial Highest box office ever designers and partnerships secondments $13.5 million 70,000 Inaugural NEON Festival of Independent Theatre 19,816 subscribers single tickets 5 independent companies staging 52 performances 33% first time 6,477 tickets and 35% first-time ticket buyers Biggest theatre 100% of $121,000 box office to companies subscriber at MTC Collaborated with Melbourne International Multicultural Arts Victoria, base in Australia 8, 656 students National Theatre Comedy Festival, City of Melbourne, of Great Britain, Queensland Tourism Victoria at MTC shows Arts Centre Melbourne, Theatre Company, and Melbourne Festival, Belvoir Theatre Company, Destination Melbourne 263,000 1,453 students at attendances learning activities 95 actors and 71 creative artists 450 casual and fulltime staff 1 education show Beached 8 Australian writers commissioned 3 of these plays produced in 2013 First family show in over 10 years 89% more Facebook followers and The Book of Everything Goal 30% more referrals to mtc.com.au Create a national presence with 25 student ambassadors 73% more Twitter followers from 25 Melbourne schools an international profile 1 interstate tour Red First international tour in 42% more online ticket sales 11% audience from 1 international 30 years announced: regional Victoria Rupert off to Kennedy and interstate co-production 60 years as a theatre company One Man Two Guvnors Center in 2014 8 MTC Annual Report 2013 MTC Annual Report 2013 9 MTC Board of Management 2013 Derek Young AM (Chair) Ian Marshman Managing Director of Accenture Australia Senior Vice-Principal, University of Melbourne Ltd up to 2003; Chair of Australian Major Chair of the Universitas 21 Managers Group; Performing Arts Group; Chair Accenture Director of Headspace National Youth Australia Foundation; CPA/FCCA. Board Mental Health Foundation; Chair, VTAC member since 1 July 1994. Chairman from Committee of Management; BA (Honours), LLB. 1 June 2005 to 31 December 2013. Board member since 1 January 2009. Lyndsey Cattermole AM Colin Masters Company Director of Treasury Wine Estates Executive Director, Mental Health Research Ltd, Tatts Group Ltd, Melbourne Rebels Institute; Senior Deputy Director Florey Rugby Pty Ltd, JadeLynx Pty Ltd, Victorian Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Major Events Company Pty Ltd. B.Sc. Health; Laureate Professor, The University of Board member since 3 June 2002. Melbourne; B.Med Sc. (Hons), M.B., B.S, M.D. Board member from 1 January 2006 to Professor Barry Conyngham AM September 2013. Dean, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Terry Moran AC Music, University of Melbourne; Emeritus Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister Professor University of Wollongong and and Cabinet to 2011; Chair of the Barangaroo Southern Cross University; MA (Hons), Delivery Authority; Special Adviser on Public DMUS. Board member since October 2013. Sector Reform at the Boston Consulting Group; Chair Cranlana Programme; Board Glyn Davis AC Member Grattan Institute; Senior Adviser Vice Chancellor, The University of at Maddocks law firm; Governor of the Melbourne; Professor of Political Science; Committee for Economic Development of past Chair, Universities Australia; B.A (Hons), Australia; BA (Hons). Board member since PhD, D.Lit. AC, FASSA. January 2012. Chairman from 1 January 2014. Board member since 1 January 2005. Martyn Myer AO Jonathan Feder Chairman, Myer Family Company Holdings Partner at K & L Gates; Theatre Producer Ltd; Member of the Council of the (JAF Productions and Two Left Feet University of Melbourne; Chairman of Productions); B.Laws (Hons), B.Sc. Cogstate Limited; B.Mech Eng, M.Eng. Board member since 1 June 2010. Science, M. Sc in Management, FIEA. Board member since 1 January 2011. Gillian Franklin Founder and Managing Director of The Brett Sheehy AO Heat Group; Board member of Cosmetic, Artistic Director of MTC Toiletry and Fragrance Association of Board member since 1 January 2012. Australia (CFTA), ACCORD, The Heat Group and Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix. Virginia Lovett Board member since 15 September 2006. Executive Director MTC; Board member since 1 January 2013. 10 MTC Annual Report 2013 MTC Annual Report 2013 11 Chairman’s Report A theatre It also meant that Derek Young, who MTC of around $3,500 is just one tenth downside to being a Department of the company should stepped down as MTC Chair at the end given to each performance of opera, and University of Melbourne. Ludicrously, the surprise and of 2013, could set sail on a high tide. Over even less than that when compared to grant from the Victorian Government delight us, tell us nineteen years on the MTC Board, nine as orchestral concerts and ballet almost matches its payroll tax bill, stories about our Chair, he oversaw a succession of performances. In a way, this is a meaning that after we exchanged lives, culture and challenges for the Company, including a testament to the efficiency of the cheques with the Government this year, history, explore successful restructuring of the Company Company and its ability to deliver so the Company was a mere $13,407 better possibilities of in the nineties, the commissioning of a much to the cultural life of the city, state off. If you take this tax into account, the where we should theatre of our own in Southbank, and the and nation with such limited support. Yet help we receive from all Government go in the future rehousing of the Company in its current it is difficult to escape the conclusion that sources