Terri is a passionate and committed Arts administrator and producer with over 15 years’ experience across the planning, management and delivery of a broad cross section of programs, events and festivals. Her previous roles have been with WOMADelaide, the Commonwealth Games Performing Arts Program in Melbourne 2006, Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Windmill Theatre, AAPPAC (Association of Asia Pacific Performing Arts Centers), Country Arts SA and the Adelaide Festival Centre across various programming/producing roles.
Terri has a strong commitment to promoting social cohesion and creating opportunities for arts and culture to genuinely reflect and represent diverse voices in our contemporary culture and society. Terri also has a deep connection with her own Italian cultural background.
Terri has been a long standing supporter of Nexus Arts, and acknowledges and values its vital role as a leader in culturally diverse and intercultural artistic practice. She equally shares Nexus Arts’ passion and advocacy for expanding the opportunities and platforms for culturally and linguistically diverse, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.
Victoria Falconer (she/her) is a celebrated cross-disciplinary performance maker, music director, multi-instrumentalist, and creative mentor of Filipino-English heritage. She is co-Artistic Director of Hayes Theatre Co alongside Richard Carroll, and 2024 winner of the Arts and Culture category at the Asian-Australians Leadership Awards).
Notable recent work as a musical director includes Hedwig & The Angry Inch (Adelaide Festival), My Brilliant Career (Melbourne Theatre Company), In The Heights (Sydney Opera House), Ride The Cyclone (Hayes Theatre Co) and M’ap Boulé (Performing Lines). Recent commissions as cabaret artist include Smashed: The Nightcap (Sydney Festival 2024/Auckland Arts Festival 2025), The Sight (Dark Mofo 2023), and The Vali Myers Project (Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Frank Ford winner 2022).
Chris is an experienced Chartered Accountant and finance leader who has experience across a number of industries and is currently at an Energy Infrastructure and Asset Management organisation. Prior to his current role, Chris worked at the Adelaide Festival Centre for a number of years where he developed a connection to the Arts and the impact it has in our culturally and linguistically diverse society. Here he developed knowledge and expertise in financial arts administration of festivals, facility management, musicals, and the foundation.
There is a strong focus from Chris to ensure we create opportunities in the arts for all individuals which celebrate, reflect, and showcase our community’s diverse heritage and backgrounds.
Chris strongly supports Nexus Arts and is committed to ensuring the long-term financial stability to continue engaging and developing with both artists and audiences in contemporary intercultural creative practices.
BA (Hons), MA, PhD, Dip Ed. Diana is currently Professor Emerita of Italian and formerly Dean of the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University. A recipient of national teaching awards, she has published numerous scholarly works on Dante, migration and oral history.
Diana serves as a Chair of the Fellowships Judging Panel for the biennial Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature (2020). She previously served on the Arts SA Literature Advisory Committee and chaired the Multicultural Committee. Additionally, she is an external assessor for Arts Industry Development Programs & Mid-Career Fellowships. She is also a member of the Register of Peers, Australia Council. Diana is a Life Fellow of the Governor’s Leadership Foundation, Leaders Institute of SA, as well as a member of the Institute of Community Directors Australia.
Diana strongly supports the dedicated advocacy by Nexus Arts for promoting culturally diverse representation, inclusivity and intercultural creative practices. Her own cultural background is Italian-Australian.
Blythe Chandler enjoys a jigsaw puzzle career dedicated to arts management and academic pursuits. With a passion for art in all its forms, Blythe has previously held the position of General Manager at the renowned cinema journal Senses of Cinema, managed the Audience and Industry Development portfolio at Film Victoria and worked at the Barbican Centre, London, Europe’s largest visual and performing arts venue. The role at Nexus is somewhat of a homecoming for Blythe, who began her career next door to Nexus at the Media Resource Centre and Mercury Cinema.
The same interest in the intersections between art and society that compelled Blythe to work in art management, has found parallel outlet in academia. Blythe’s PhD research explored contemporary dystopian films produced all over the globe. She has taught Screen Studies and Literature, both at home and while living abroad in Hollywood (…Maryland…!), and received a Teaching Excellence Award for her work in the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences at Flinders University in 2019.
