{"id":397,"date":"2018-07-18T23:18:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T23:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.dustysheldon.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=397"},"modified":"2018-08-02T06:11:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T06:11:50","slug":"linda-hume","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/linda-hume\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindy Hume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lindy Hume<\/strong> is one of Australia\u2019s leading directors, acknowledged internationally for her fresh interpretations of a wide variety of repertoire, and for progressive artistic leadership. She has created more than 50 major opera productions across Australasia, Europe, and America.<\/p>\n<p>As director of the Perth International Arts Festival she commissioned major new works in theatre, dance, opera, and symphony, and directed the 2007 world premi\u00e8re of Richard Mills\/Timberlake Wertenbaker\u2019s opera\u00a0<em>The Love of the Nightingale<\/em>.\u00a0Signatures of her Perth International Arts and Sydney Festivals have been new Australian work, focus on contemporary Indigenous cultures, and celebration of local communities.<\/p>\n<p>A passionate advocate for excellence in the arts in regional Australia, and a long-time resident of the Far South Coast of New South Wales, her 2017 Currency House Platform Paper,\u00a0<em>Restless Giant: Changing Cultural values in Regional Australia,<\/em>\u00a0imagines a future national cultural landscape in which regional creativity is a driving force.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lindy Hume is one of Australia\u2019s leading directors, acknowledged internationally for her fresh interpretations of a wide variety of repertoire, and for progressive artistic leadership. She has created more than 50 major opera productions across Australasia, Europe, and America. As director of the Perth International Arts Festival she commissioned major new works in theatre, dance, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"featured_media":398,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}