Liz Meaney is Performing Arts Director for the Arts Council. As a senior leader she has held positions in a range of art form and practice areas. As Arts Director she led on the policy and processes which resulted support for; a new national opera company, a three year funding agreement for Ireland’s National Theatre the Abbey, and the transformation of the agencies key funding programmes. Liz was responsible for the Arts Council 2016 centenary programme where she ensured the development and delivery of one of the country’s most successful national commissioning programmes. Liz led the establishment of Creative Schools. This Arts Council programme, now running across 300 schools, operates in partnership with the Dept of Education and Skills and Creative Ireland. In her early career she worked with Cork Film Centre, Cork Film Festival and Kino Arthouse Cinema. She was Manager of the Galway Film Centre, a film resource organisation, from 1997-2001. Returning to Cork in 2001 she took up her position as Cork City Council Arts Officer and was involved both in the bid and the realisation of Cork as European Capital of Culture 2005. She has served on the boards of Cork 2005 European Capital of Culture, the Association of Irish Festivals and Events, and Cork Midsummer Festival. She was Chair of the Association of Local Authority Arts Officers. Her experience ranges from the commissioning of large scale public spectacles with audiences in excess of 150,000 to long term strategic planning, capital projects and grant aid management. A graduate of University College Cork, Liz has a Masters in Irish History. She is a certified IPI Project Manager.

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Triskel Backstage is hosted by Gillian Hennessy, Marketing and Development Manager with Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, and Eimear O'Brien, Director of Lunasa PR.

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