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Michael Lynch took up his appointment as Chief Executive of the South Bank Centre on 2 September 2002.
Previously Michael was the Chief Executive of the Sydney Opera House, a position he took up in September 1998. Michael has had a long career in arts administration and film and television.
Michael was formerly General Manager of the Australia Council, the Federal Government’s arts funding and advisory body, from August 1994 to August 1998. Prior to this he was the General Manager of the Sydney Theatre Company from 1989 to 1994.
In his earlier working life he was a casting director with his own agency Forcast, an agent for the performing arts and film and television, and produced the feature film “Raw Nerve” in 1988.
He began his career at the Australia Council for the Arts in 1973 and was a former manager of the Nimrod Theatre and Administrator of the Australian National Playwrights Conference.
In 2001 he was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to arts administration. He has served as Chairman of the Australia Asia Pacific Performing Arts Centres (AAPPAC) and as the only non-North American member of the Performing Arts Centres Consortium (PACC) of North America.
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