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Brenna Hobson is returning to her old stomping ground at Belvoir St Theatre, having been appointed General Manager of Company B, three years after she left her previous role as the company’s Production Manager. Brenna will be taking over from Vicki Middleton, who is leaving the company to have her first child, in March 2008.

Brenna had an eleven year association with Company B before moving on from her Production Manager position in 2005. Keen to spread her wings and build her management experience, Brenna worked briefly as a Production Manager for Bangarra Dance Theatre before moving to Canberra to head up Jigsaw Theatre Company as General Manager. In this role, Brenna’s work included commissioning William Yang to return to the world of playwriting with Emma’s Dynasty – a story of discovery of identity, created for 8-12 year olds, that premiered in Canberra last June.
Company B’s Artistic Director Neil Armfield is delighted to be welcoming Brenna back to the company.

“Brenna was staff representative to the Board of Company B from 2002 to 2005, sitting on both the Industrial Relations and Building Redevelopment Sub-committees, and was instrumental in the development of the production department in her years as Production Manager. She knows the company inside out and we are greatly looking forward to working with her again in her new role as General Manager,” he said.

Brenna first walked through the doors of Belvoir St Theatre as a high school work experience student in 1991. Her first full time role with the company came about three years later as intern assistant stage manager on Dead Heart, and her first professional role was as assistant stage manager for Neil Armfield’s Hamlet in the same year.

Brenna’s production work has taken her around the world – to Japan with Spirit for Bangarra in 2005, Colombia with the Threepenny Opera for Company B in 2004, and Dublin with Small Poppies for Company B in 2000.

Of her new role, Brenna says, “I am thrilled to be returning to Company B at such an exciting time and am looking forward to the challenge of the GM role, particularly coming into such a phenomenal season. The strength of Company B is in the tremendous calibre of people who come together to make the work happen, from the artists, to administrative and production staff, board members and front of house and bar staff. I couldn’t be more pleased to be rejoining such a great team.”

Brenna’s credits as an independent theatre producer include Vital Organs, which is currently playing downstairs at Belvoir St Theatre, The Suitors (Old Fitzroy Theatre) and Richard Foreman’s avant-garde piece Now that Communism is Dead My Life Feels Empty (B Sharp).