Lesley Graham
Chair
Lesley is a freelance curriculum consultant and casual academic at UTAS. She has taught Dance at all levels of education and training including TAFE and Lecturing in Dance and Education at UTAS and Queensland University of Technology, and has served as the Senior Project Officer Performing Arts, DOE, Tasmania. She mentors emerging artists, undertakes rehearsal direction and dramaturgy and teaches contemporary dance technique, choreography and ballet. She writes reviews for Dance Australia and Arts Hub. Lesley is a member of the National Advocates for Arts Education and the Ausdance Awards panel.
Sandi Doherty
junior vice Chair
Sandi is committed to improving the health, social and economic outcomes for Tasmania. Her early career grew through dance, fine arts and community cultural development, before moving into media and philanthropy. Sandi now works as State Manager of Canteen where she leads a state-wide team of psychologists and social workers to improve outcomes for young people impacted by cancer. As one of our Child Safety Officers and Junior Vice Chair, you can contact Sandi on any matters you wish to raise with the board.
Winnie Fang
Treasurer
Winnie joined Macquarie Accounting in July 2020 with experience in both public practice and corporate accounting. She has a master degree in Professional Accounting and Applied Finance from the University of Queensland. She is also holding a Certified Provisional Interpreter Mandarin and English credential. Currently she is enrolled in the CPA Program.
katie palmer
secretary
Katie is a DRILL alumni and we are delighted to have her on the board.
Steve Kyne
board Member
Steve Kyne was formerly Deputy Director of Arts Tasmania, commencing there in 1998. For 18 of his last 24 months with the arts agency, he was Acting Director. He finished in February 2017.
He has specific skills in the areas of public administration, program design and implementation, ministerial correspondence and advice, and statistical methods and reporting. He also spent four months in 2007 as Interim General Manager of Tasmania’s biennial arts festival, Ten Days on the Island.
He has been involved in voluntary work for a range of organisations: Youth Programmes Incorporated (Treasurer), Youth Advocacy Council (Treasurer), Mountain Film Festival, Tasmanian Design Development Corporation (Vice-Chairman) and St. Monica’s Community Incorporated (Treasurer). Until July 2008 he was the joint owner of record label Rhythm Express Music and of the design production business, Creative One Studio.
Steve is currently working with the Taiwan Foreign Education Teacher Program.
Angela Barnard
board member
Angela is a Hobart-based dance artist and teacher. In 2005 she graduated from Deakin University with a Bachelor of Creative Arts in dance and photography and in 2006 from QUT with a Graduate Diploma in Education.
Angela has performed with a number of local companies and independent artists such as Stompin, DRILL, Kickstart Arts, SPACE Dance, Chris Love and The Phonics as well as presenting her own choreographic works. Since 2007 she has taught TCE Dance at a number of schools including Guilford Young College, Hobart College, Claremont College and New Norfolk High, and has choreographed for numerous school musicals. From 2009-2012, Angela was a choreographer for the Hobart Chargers Cheerleaders and was an accredited cheerleading coach at Southern All Stars Cheer and Dance.
Angela has been working with DRILL since 2013 and choreographed for Radical Kid (2015), All Your Worth (2015), Trash This Place (2016) NEON (2019), leviathan (2021) and, Junior Company’s performances Elemental (2019) and CHANGE (2020).
Erica Campbell-Graham
board member
Erica has been involved with DRILL since 2012, and has performed with the senior company in every major production and almost every minor production during this time. She has volunteered in DRILL’s schools and junior programs, and worked as Assistant Choreographer for the 2019 Junior Company. Erica has also represented DRILL nationally at AYDF2019 and the National Youth Arts Summit (2019). Erica first joined DRILL’s Board in 2020 as the Dancers Representative, taking on new roles in 2022. Erica holds a Bachelors Degree in Arts, Majoring in Gender Studies, with Minors in French and Politics and Policy, and now works within the Arts sector in Hobart.
Abigail Shelley
Board Member
Abigail is currently the Deputy Secretary, Corporate and Governance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, where she is responsible for governance and corporate services. Abigail started her career as a commercial lawyer in the entertainment and technology sectors, specialising in copyright and music law. Abigail has also worked in legal, commercial and program roles for corporate and public sector entities, and has lectured in Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law at the University of Tasmania.