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Exit interview: Geordie Brookman, State Theatre Company SA
Geordie Brookman. Photo by Tash McCammon.
‘Theatre is a medium that never stays still,’ said Geordie Brookman, the outgoing Artistic Director and co-CEO of State Theatre Company South Australia (STCSA).
Reflecting on his time at the company – which included three years as Associate Director from 2008 to 2010 before taking on the AD’s role in July 2012 – Brookman said theatre as an art form has continued to evolve during his many years at STCSA.
Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts
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George Brookman
South Australian businessman (1850–1927)
Sir George BrookmanKBE (15 April 1850 – 20 June 1927) was a South Australian businessman who made a fortune from a gold discovery in Western Australia, and is remembered as a generous benefactor of the South Australian School of Mines and Industries and the University of Adelaide.
History
[edit]Brookman was born on 15 April 1850 in Glasgow, Scotland, the eldest son of typesetter Benjamin Brookman (16 September 1826 – 11 June 1917) and his wife Jane née Wilson (d. 1 March 1881).[1][2][3] The family emigrated to South Australia in 1852 on the Water Lily, arriving at Port Adelaide on 5 May and settled in Prospect. After completing his education at the schools of James Bath and R. C. Mitton,[2] he found employment with grocery firm D & J Fowler. Then, with fellow-employee William Finlayson jun., he took over Fowler's retail arm in King William Street.[2] He set himself up as a stock and share broker and earned a position in the Adelaide Stock Exchange in 1890.[4]
In 1893 he founded, with brother William Brookman and Sam Pearce, the Coolgardie Gold Mining and Prospecting Co. Ltd. syndicate which financed the exploration and proving of a mining lea
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