Lindy Hume AM PhD
Director | Creative Director

Lindy Hume is one of Australia’s leading directors, acknowledged internationally for fresh interpretations of a wide variety of repertoire and progressive artistic leadership of Australian arts organisations and festivals including Perth Festival, Sydney Festival, and more recently Four Winds Festival and Ten Days on the Island. Hume's twelve Australian international festivals, leave a substantial legacy of stellar global creations, bold and diverse new Australian works, projects fore-fronting contemporary First Nation cultures, socially engaged practice and deep community connections across Australia.

Equally at home in opera, Lindy Hume has served as Artistic Director of four Australian opera companies: West Australian Opera, Victorian Opera, OzOpera and Opera Queensland. She was the interim Creative Director and Artistic Adviser for Opera Australia’s Sydney Summer Season 2024.

As a stage director, she regularly creates new productions in Australia, NZ, Europe, US and the UK for renowned international companies such as Opera Philadelphia, Seattle Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Des Moines Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Royal Swedish Opera Stockholm, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Aldeburgh Festival, Welsh National Opera and eight productions for New Zealand Opera. In Australia she has created 100+ small-to-large-scale productions, several new Australian works, and won Helpmann Awards for best director and best production. In her many productions for Opera Australia and the state companies as well as four Pinchgut Opera productions, she is recognised for creating popular and audience-friendly stagings that are intelligent yet accessible, boldly theatrical and oriented toward feminist / humanist narratives. 

Lindy Hume holds a Graduate Diploma in Arts Administration from the University of South Australia in 2007, an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from University of Western Australia in recognition of her contribution to the cultural life of Western Australia, and in 2021 received her PhD from Queensland University of Technology. In the 2021 Australia Day Honours, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to the performing arts, particularly to opera. 

 Hume is recognised as one of Australia’s leading thinkers and writers on creative life in regional Australia, and lives between her home in the Far South Coast of NSW and Tasmania, where her husband lives. Her experience and deep interest in creative practice outside metropolitan centres inform her Currency House Platform Paper (2017) Restless Giant: Changing Cultural Values in Regional Australia and her PhD thesis A Bigger Picture: Toward a Landscape Oriented Creative Practice, which she is currently turning into a book.