Anna Nalpantidis (she/her) is an award-winning creative producer, curator and director working across contemporary performance, film and public art. Creatively, Anna is interested in co-creating and facilitating experiences that are site-responsive, ambitious and experimental.

Over the past 10 years Anna has built a reputation for delivering complex and intricate works of scale that deliver on quality, ambition and diversity of artistic expression. Her portfolio of work has spanned a variety of roles, including: developing, designing, producing & directing concepts; building and leading teams; managing budgets; strategic planning and executing large-scale, socially engaged and cross-disciplinary projects. With a particular interest in site-responsive work, she has engaged audiences in chemical laboratory buildings, bathtubs in bookstores, community halls in regional towns, disused warehouses, shipping containers, band rooms, cinemas, shopping malls, bathrooms, libraries, quarries, phones, screens, theatres and galleries.

Anna has worked in senior roles for organisations including APHIDS, Next Wave, Experimenta and Melbourne Fringe and with presenting and venue partners including RISING, The Substation, Performance Space, WinterWild Festival, ACMI, National Gallery of Victoria, ACCA, State Library of Victoria, Arts Centre Melbourne, Now Or Never, MONA FOMA, Melbourne Fringe, Platform Arts, Arts House, Noosa Regional Gallery, Horizon Festival, Fusebox Festival, PS21 and Transform Festival.

Anna has a Bachelor of Performing Arts / Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from Monash University, having completed her Performing Arts degree at the University of Exeter (with a focus on Interdisciplinary Spatial Practices and Site-Specific Art). She is currently the Chair of the Green Room panel for Contemporary & Experimental Performance. She is admitted to practice as an Australian Lawyer and is a nationally accredited mediator.

Anna was the Executive Producer at Aphids, where she led the company alongside Co-Directors, Lara Thoms and Mish Grigor. Over her time at the company, she successfully produced over 10 new works with a diverse range of presenting partners and collaborators, all whilst delivering the company’s creative and core business operations in a strategic, dynamic manner. In 2022 and 2023 under her tenure, Aphids won the Art For Social Change Prize (Incinerator Gallery), the prestigious Melbourne Award for Arts and Events (City of Melbourne) and secured 4 year multi-year investment from Creative Australia for the first time in the company’s 30 year history.

Naarm (Melbourne) stands on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. I acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of Country on whose unceded lands I live, play, create and work.