ADI DINER
Adi Diner is currently the General Manager of Melbourne’s White Night Festival. He has studied a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts Management as well as a Graduate Diploma in Dramatic Arts. Prior to White Night Adi has worked at a number of significant cultural festivals in Melbourne. He has been the Operations Manager for the Melbourne International Jazz Festival as well as a serving board member for the Melbourne Jazz Cooperative. Adi has also worked as the Director for The Arts Man, a boutique consultancy that works with the arts and entertainment industry. In addition to this he has been the Program Manager for the Polyglot Theatre.
Twitter // Polyglot // The Arts Man // White Night Melbourne // Melbourne Jazz
LAUREN ZORIC
Lauren Zoric’s CV encompasses an impressive array of experience in marketing, publicity as well as music and arts journalism. She began her career in both the UK and Australia as a Music and Arts Journalist. From then on she has been the Music and Talks Producer at Triple R Broadcasters, worked in London as a Press Officer and Publicity Manager for The Leaf Label and Warp Records. Lauren was the co-‐director of Dog Day Press, a publicity agency in London as well as the International Marketing and Publicity consultant at The Falls Festival. She has been a publicist for Prue Bassett Publicity, the Melbourne Festival and Dog Day Publicity and Marketing, her very own music, arts and media consultancy group. Lauren is currently the Marketing and Communications Manager at the Melbourne International Film Festival and is a Senior Publicist for Q Strategies.
Warp // Dog Day // Falls Festival // Q Strategies // Miff // The Guardian
LIZ BERMINGHAM
Liza Bermingham studied a Media Degree at La Trobe and a Masters in Communications at Monash University before becoming a successful music journalist. Liza has written for publications such as The Rolling Stone, the Sunday Age and the Sydney Morning Herald whilst also being the music editor at Inpress Magazine. Following her career in journalism Liza was the Marketing Manager at MDS (part of Mushroom Records). In this role she sold artists such as
Fatboy Slim, Propellor Heads, Chemical Brothers, Blink 182 and The Living End to media platforms across Australia. Liza has handled the PR for The Living End and Bodyjar as well as being a tour coordinator. In 1999 she relocated to San Diego to work as a Global Media Advisor and the day-‐to-‐day manager for the bands Blink 182 and Pennywise. After returning to Australia Liza became the Director of Marketing for Hurley International until 2005 and is now a high school Media Studies Teacher.
The Music // Mushroom Music // Hurley // AtomVIC
MELANIE JOY CAPLE
Melanie Joy Caple is an Australian based Artist and Arts Manager. Now based in Melbourne, Melanie grew up and was schooled in South Gippsland. Upon finishing high school in 2006, Melanie left country Victoria and traveled and worked extensively throughout Asia and Europe. She returned to reside in Melbourne to undertake her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, majoring in Painting, at RMIT University in 2010. Melanie is currently studying her Master of Arts (Arts Management) degree at RMIT University. She has taken on the role as studio manager for a mid-‐career painter as she pursues a career in independent artist management, and is currently Co-‐Director for the Melbourne Music Video Festival that she has produced alongside her creative partner. She also continues to paint and draw from her studio based at the River Studios warehouse, West Melbourne.’