ndrew Bleby has produced and managed a wide range of projects in the performing arts, both independently and with other organisations.

Here are a few of the highlights:  

Producer

Andrew Bleby produced the first edition of this sensational new festival in Hobart, Tasmania, in early 2009. With a hand-picked team, ABA realised a major new international festival in just four months to public and critical acclaim. ABA had earlier prepared a feasibility study for the festival which was the stimulus for major new government support. In 2011, ABA and Insite Arts produced the largest and most successful MOFO to date and the lavish opening of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) itself.

Producer

In another first, ABA prepared a feasibility study for a new series of outdoor concerts by Orchestra Victoria in regional centres, transmitted live by satellite to a Live Site in another city. The first of these was produced by ABA in February 2009 in Bendigo, transmitting to Shepparton and Federation Square, Melbourne. The event was surrounded by supporting performances and a street party, and played free to 5,000 people in Bendigo's Rosalind Park. A second concert in 2011 thrilled an audience of 6,000 people on the Waterfront in Geelong.

 Executive Producer

estival Melbourne 2006, the hugely successful $12m cultural program of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games, was the largest fully curated festival ever held in Australia and the largest free arts festival ever produced here. Two million people came to the city centre and four regional venues to experience free performances and events from every region of the Commonwealth. As Executive Producer of the Performing Arts Program, Andrew Bleby steered the event from tender-winning conception to Helpmann Award-winning execution in an atmosphere of smoothly managed celebration which shone for eleven days. Click Here for More

 Executive Producer

he 2007 FINA Festival, commissioned by the Victorian Government, added a new international dimension to the World Swimming Championships held in Melbourne in 2007. International music, street theatre, circus and visual installations brought the Yarra River precinct alive for three extraordinary days. Click Here for More

 Producer

Andrew Bleby produced the National Institute of Circus Arts' first graduation show, its first off-campus show at Federation Square, and its first touring show for Victorian regional venues. He was also invited to present the keynote address at the 2006 graduation ceremony.

General Manager

or three amazing years at the beginning of this century, Melbourne ’s Moomba Festival was transformed into an international street theatre festival, along with a parade of redesigned trams and a Garden Party of contemporary indigenous music from across Australia . The reviews were excellent and attendances rose. Andrew Bleby was General Manager during this period. 

 Executive Producer / Associate Producer

uring the 1990s, Andrew Bleby was Associate or Executive Producer of a range of large-scale touring musicals and West End plays for the Adelaide Festival Centre, including an 18-month tour of 42nd Street and the transfer of The King and I to Broadway where it won 4 Tony Awards.  

 Program Director

ndrew Bleby was Program Director for the Adelaide Festival Centre during arguably its most exciting and prolific time, presenting a huge range of performing arts programs and series as well as producing musicals which travelled to Asia and the USA. Andrew oversaw the Centre’s 25^th Birthday celebrations in 1998.  

 Director

he Next Wave Festival, Melbourne ’s renowned festival for young and emerging artists across a range of art forms, was founded by Andrew Bleby in 1985. He was inaugural Director of the festival and oversaw its growth and development for the first six years of its life.  Click Here for More

 Artistic Director

he one-off Australian International Puppet Festival captivated  Adelaide in 1983. The largest puppet festival held in Australia before or since, it provided ten days of non-stop puppet performance, workshop and discussion featuring puppet artists from all over the world.