Susan Provan
{{Short description|Australian performing arts producer}}
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Susan Mary Provan {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} is an Australian performing arts producer, who has been director of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival since 1994.
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Early life and education
Susan Mary Provan studied a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne.
Career
Provan credits comedy producer John Pinder and his business partner Roger Evans with giving her her first job in comedy, and for introducing her to Circus Oz.{{cite web | last=Bennett | first=Steve | title=Australian comedy kingpin dies : News 2015 | website=Chortle | date=2015-05-27 | url=https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2015/05/27/22568/australian-comedy-kingpin-dies | access-date=2024-09-11}} She became the manager of the Last Laugh Theatre, a restaurant and comedy venue in Melbourne run by Pinder and Evans from 1976 until the mid-1980s.{{cite interview|first= John| last=Pinder|url=http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s902237.htm | title=Last Laugh |interviewer-last=Negus |interviewer-first=George | website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=14 July 2003 |access-date=19 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024230154/http://www.abc.net.au:80/dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s902237.htm| archive-date=24 Oct 2014}}{{cite journal|title=John Pinder | journal=Theatre Australia |volume=3 |issue=5| date= December 1978 | via=Issuu | p=15-16 | url=https://issuu.com/libuow/docs/theatreaustralia1978dec | access-date=10 September 2024}}
In 1985 Provan joined Circus Oz as general manager. In 1993, she became an associate producer at the State Theatre Company of South Australia, before taking up the directorship of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 1994.Who's Who in Australia 2018, ConnectWeb, 2017.
Recognition
- 2017: Added to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women{{cite web |title=Susan Provan (2017) |url=https://www.vic.gov.au/women/victorian-honour-roll-of-women/victorian-honour-roll-details-page.html?honour-roll_id=34 |website=Victorian Honour Roll of Women |publisher=State Government of Victoria |accessdate=12 June 2018}}
- 2018: Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, "for distinguished service to arts administration through festival leadership and governance, to the tourism sector in Victoria, and to the promotion of Australian comedy"{{cite web |title=PROVAN, Susan Mary |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2001569 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility |publisher=Australian Government |accessdate=12 June 2018}}
References
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External links
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Category:Australian theatre managers and producers