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Artistic Director - PJ Rose

PJ is a theatre director, radio producer, community arts organiser and former university lecturer. She's worked in Nicaragua, Indonesia, the USA and Australia with youth, adults and elders in Indigenous, multi-cultural, multi-gender and disability communities. From 1999-2004 she was Program Manager at Radio Adelaide. In September 2004 she rejoined No Strings Attached where she'd also been artistic director from 1997-1999.

In the USA (1976-1987), PJ was Artistic Director and General Manager for a professional multiracial women's theatre company called At the Foot of the Mountain. In 1988 she began traveling internationally, supporting herself by driving taxi cabs, looking for ways to reconcile her apparently contradictory passions for feminist theatre, Indigenous politics and musical comedy. She moved to Australia in 1990 to lecture in Drama at the Flinders University.

She's founded theatre companies, organized international conferences, and produced and presented radio programs (the most fun of which was Red Light Radio, a 13-week magazine style program created by, and for, workers in the sex industry). She's directed over 50 professional productions, including 25 premieres of new scripts, most with original music. She has a PhD in contemporary political theatre.