Thank you to the 2025 Adelaide Cabaret Festival team, including all Adelaide Festival Centre staff, whose hard work made the festival possible.
Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic Director
- Virginia Gay
Executive Producer
- Isobel Marmion
Programming
- Maddy Warren - Producer
- Michelle Davy - Programming Coordinator
- Ali Jones - Festival Design
- Kathryn Sproul - Special Events Design
- Renee Gibson - Education Officer
Marketing & Customer Experience
- Meral Nieman - Marketing Executive
- Samantha Highcock - Marketing Coordinator
- Stephanie Rossetto - Senior Publicity Coordinator
- Emma Piscioneri - Digital Marketing Coordinator
- Gloria-Qing Deng - Digital Content Officer
- Joshua Osis - Graphic Designer
- Simon Rogers - Visual Content Officer
- Cathy Barrett - Retail & Tours Executive
- Peter Maddock - Senior Ticketing Executive
- Heather McGinn - Ticketing Coordinator
- Jessica Marsh - Ticketing Coordinator
- Natalie Schwarz-Hancock - Patron Services Coordinator
- Tiana Sgarbossa - Hospitality Executive
- Katherine MacDonald - Senior Event Sales Executive
- Alex Scott - Hospitality Coordinator
- Marissa Vorrasi - Hospitality Coordinator
- Liam Goodwin - Event Sales Coordinator
- Ryan Willard - Head Chef
Production
- Françoise Piron - Production Coordinator
- Michael Roberts - Production Coordinator
- Robert O’Mahony - Head of Staging
- Jane Rossetto - Head of Sound
- Martin Howard - Head of Lighting
Adelaide Cabaret Festival Advocates
- Jane Doyle OAM
- Sam Harvey
- Paul Kitching
- Grant & Helen Burge
Adelaide Cabaret Festival Founder
- Frank Ford AM
Brochure Cover / TV Commercial Talent
- Zenya Carmellotti
- Seann Miley Moore
- Winchester Angel
Adelaide Festival Centre Trustees
- The Hon Karlene Maywald (Chair)
- Bruce Carter AO (Deputy Chair)
- Michael Abbott AO KC
- Dr Katherine Tamiko Arguile
- Alexandrea Cannon OAM
- Penny Griggs
- Councillor Phillip Martin
- Dr Evelyn Yap OAM
Douglas Gautier AM - CEO & Artistic Director
- Kim Thiel - Executive Assistant to the CEO | Protocol Manager
Steven Woolhouse - Chief Operating & Financial Officer
- Bernadette Brennan - Manager, WHS & Risk
- David Cations - Manager, ICT & Cybersecurity
- Mark Cullen - Manager, Facilities
- Claire George - Manager, Human Resources
- Abhishek Shaw - Manager, Finance & Business Improvement
- Angela Willington - Manager, Legal & Contract Management
Christie Anthoney - Head of External Affairs
Renato Capoccia - Head of Marketing
- Francesca Belperio - Manager, Publicity & Content Creation
- Julia George - Manager, Digital & Social
Nathan Luscombe - Head of Production & Technical
- Martin Howard - Head of Department, Lighting
- Robert O'Mahony - Head of Department, Staging
- Jane Rossetto - Head of Department, Sound
Heather Poole - Head of Customer Experience
- Natale Adam - Manager, Ticketing
- Kate Hagan - Manager, Patron Services
- Jeff Owens - Manager, Hospitality
Alex Sinclair - Head of Programming - Commercial
Susannah Sweeney - Head of Programming - Public Purpose
- Virginia Gay - Artistic Director, Adelaide Cabaret Festival
- Slava Grigoryan - Artistic Director, Adelaide Guitar Festival
- Joon-Yee Kwok - Festival Director, OzAsia Festival
- Georgi Paech - Festival Director, DreamBIG Children's Festival
Abbie Taylor - Director of Philanthropy & Corporate Partnerships
- Janine Eckert - Manager, Corporate Partnerships
- Olivia Power - Manager, Philanthropy
Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation Board
- Miranda Starke (Chair)
- Cain Cooke (Deputy Chair)
- Ray Dahdah
- Georgina Duckworth
- Sheryn Foord
- Jasmin Shahin
- Lauren Zwaans
- Legh Davis (Patron)
- Joan Hardy OAM (Patron)