Anna Nalpantidis (she/her) is a creative producer, curator and director of contemporary performance based in Naarm (Melbourne). Creatively, Anna is interested in co-creating and facilitating experiences that are site-responsive, ambitious and experimental.
Over the past 10 years Anna has built a reputation for delivering complex and intricate works of scale that deliver on quality, ambition and diversity of artistic expression. Her portfolio of work has spanned a variety of roles, including: developing, designing, producing & directing concepts; building teams and executing large-scale, socially engaged and cross-disciplinary projects. With a particular interest in site-responsive work, she has engaged audiences in chemical laboratory buildings, bathtubs in bookstores, community halls in regional towns, disused warehouses, libraries, theatres and galleries.
Anna has worked in senior roles for organisations including APHIDS, Next Wave, Experimenta and Melbourne Fringe and with presenting and venue partners including RISING, The Substation, Performance Space, WinterWild Festival, ACMI, National Gallery of Victoria, ACCA, Horizons Festival, State Library of Victoria, Arts Centre Melbourne, Now Or Never, MONA FOMA, Melbourne Fringe, Platform Arts, Arts House, Fusebox Festival, PS21 and Transform Festival.
Anna has a Bachelor of Performing Arts / Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from Monash University, having completed her Performing Arts degree at the University of Exeter (with a focus on Interdisciplinary Spatial Practices and Site-Specific Art). She is currently the Chair of the Green Room panel for Contemporary & Experimental Performance. She has been a Peer Assessor for Creative Australia and City of Melbourne and a Board Member of Elbow Room Productions. She is admitted to practice as an Australian Lawyer and is a nationally accredited mediator.
Anna is currently working with Tina Stefanou on You Can’t See Speed - a new film commission for ACCA premiering in April 2025. She has also been working with Marcus Ian McKenzie as creative producer / dramaturg on The Crying Room: Exhumed, commissioned by The Substation and developed with the support of Creative Victoria, Creative Australia, Experimenta and SensiLab. The Crying Room: Exhumed premiered in February 2024 at The Substation in Melbourne and toured to Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art in October 2024 at Carriageworks in Sydney.
Over the past few years, Anna was the Executive Producer at Aphids where she led the company alongside Co-Directors, Lara Thoms and Mish Grigor. Over her time at the company, she successfully produced over 10 new works with a diverse range of presenting partners and collaborators, all whilst delivering the company’s creative and core business operations in a strategic, dynamic manner. In 2022 and 2023 under her tenure, Aphids won the Art For Social Change Prize (Incinerator Gallery), the prestigious Melbourne Award for Arts and Events (City of Melbourne) and secured 4 year multi-year investment from Creative Australia for the first time in the company’s 30 year history.
Prior to Aphids, Anna was the Program Manager (Independent Arts) at Melbourne Fringe where she had a key role in delivering the yearly arts festival and the conception, implementation and delivery of a new Digital Fringe platform. In the midst of a global pandemic, she delivered two hybrid/online festivals as well as a year-round program of artistic development, sector leadership and support for Melbourne's independent arts sector. In 2020, Melbourne Fringe won the Green Room award for Making The Impossible Possible.
Anna can provide producing/dramaturgical support, experience design/event curation, strategic planning, grant writing, project/budget management, consultancy and workshops to independent artists, collectives and organisations. To discuss your practice, project or an opportunity, please contact: a.c.nalpantidis@gmail.com.
Naarm (Melbourne) stands on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. I acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of Country on whose unceded lands I live, play, create and work.