Ian Pidd is a freelance director of theatre and festivals, based in Melbourne, Australia. His practice veers between programming festivals (The Village, The Falls, The Lost Lands), directing theatre (Men Of Steel's Hard Rubbish) and participatory "things" (Unconformity's The Rumble, and Dark MOFO's Ogoh Ogoh). Ian's collaboration with Bec Reid and Kate Macdonald, Everybody Now, has created social dance works all over the country, including a large scale commission for the Commonwealth Games Festival 2018. Ian is Artistic Director of the new music and arts festival The Lost Lands, a two day festival for families. Ian co directed PASSENGER (a work in which an audience experience a contemporary western revenge-tragedy from within a bus moving through an urban landscape) with Jessica Wilson, which had a hit season in Melbourne and was last presented  at London's Greenwich and Docklands Festival in June 2019, and will be at Sydney’s Art and About in 2020. Ian directed Sam Halmarack and JOF's ecstatic participatory music work We Are Lightning which garnered a Green Room nomination and which toured the UK in May/June 2018 and just won the Judges Choice award at the 2019 Dublin Fringe. Ian is project director on Polyglot’s First On The Ladder project which is a three year creative collaboration between the company and two leading indigenous regional sporting clubs: Rumbalara Football Netball club in Shepparton (on Yorta Yorta country) and The Moree Boomerang Rugby League club (on Kamileroi Land).