Our Team

Heather Croall

Director and CEO

Heather first worked at the Fringe in the Star Club in the early 1990’s and also ran the film event, Shoot The Fringe from 1992 to 2002. After a decade away from Adelaide running a festival in the UK, Heather returned to take up the role of Director and CEO in 2015. She has a passion for rollerskating.

Belinda Redman

Deputy Director

Belinda joined Fringe in May 2010. After overseeing the departments of Media, Marketing and Business Development, Belinda became Deputy Director in 2016. Belinda loves nothing more than a new, creative and exciting idea that can be explored, fine-tuned and unleashed, then when it all comes together, glass of wine in hand and hitting the Fringe Club dance floor.

Emma Bedford

Head of Production

Emma Bedford is committed to the diverse, eclectic world of live entertainment and large scale events. In recent years, Emma has been a key player in delivering some of Australia’s large scale events, including Sydney Festival, WOMADelaide and Adelaide Fringe. Emma has also been a leader in Australian theatre organisations including Erth Visual and Physical, Performance Space Sydney and Vitalstatistix.

Jo O'Callaghan

Head of Artists, Venues & Events

Jo likes to throw a party, it’s true, she also likes dogs. She has returned home to SA to throw the biggest party to date in her career, and joined the Adelaide Fringe team in 2017. Her first encounter with Adelaide Fringe was producing and performing on busses across Adelaide, with the cult hit Op Shop Tours. You may also know her from various management roles at festivals such as Melbourne Fringe, Melbourne International Film Festival, Short + Sweet Melbourne, and Melbourne International Comedy Festival.  If you can’t see her, listen for her laugh. 

Julie Moralee

Head of Marketing, Brand and Business Development

Julie started her arts career back in 2002 at the Adelaide Fringe as the Signage Coordinator, followed by Marketing Manager for Come Out and has worked at the Adelaide Festival Centre as a Marketing Executive and Brand Strategist for the past 13 ½ years. Julie has delivered on more than 250 projects, specialising in brand management, festival and event marketing. Never shy of a challenge, Julie has sailed from Hobart to Adelaide and completed the New York and Paris marathons.

Ella Huisman

Head of Ticketing and Digital Services

Ella came on board as a Box Office staff member at Adelaide Fringe in 2013, a Ticketing Coordinator in 2014 and finally taking on the mammoth role of all things Tickets (FringeTIX Manager) for the 2015 Fringe. Ella has also worked at Edinburgh Fringe and is a lover of comedy, ticketing stats, riding her bike to work and diet coke.

Beth Kelly

Head of Finance and Culture

Beth started working at the Adelaide Fringe in early 2017. She is a Chartered Accountant with over 13 years’ experience in a range of industries. She has been a huge fan of the Adelaide Fringe for many years and is thrilled to be part of such a creative organisation. 

Isobel Huisman

Office Manager

Izzy started working at Adelaide Fringe in 2014 as the Administration Coordinator and Receptionist. She is the happy voice you hear when you call, and the funny response you get when you email. She loves her dog Luna, a laugh, and a good coffee.

Viron Papadopoulos

Human Resource Manager

You won’t find anything on Viron's LinkedIn profile about his work as a bouncer, or a wharfie or that he ran a wet mess in a mining town, but he did. This work gave him a solid foundation for everything that would come later in his career. Between his excursions into the proletariat and his current role at the Adelaide Fringe, Viron crewed on feature films and television series, founded a production company which made broadcast content, won some awards, managed to squeeze in a HR degree, and was a catapulted into a senior role at the South Australian Film Corporation. He has a wife and two small children. As result he hasn’t heard silence in over four years.

Matthew Croall

Digital Developer

Matt started his career off as a system administrator while undertaking a Bachelor of Information Technology degree at University of South Australia. Matt has always had an interest in technology from a young age and believes in its ability to profoundly improve people’s lives. Matt is the developer for Adelaide Fringe's Artist and Venue Registration system. He enjoys taking care of his tropical fish and aquascapes.

Kieran Kellett

Digital Project Manager

Kieran has recently joined the legendary Ticketing and Digital department as the Digital Project Manager. For the past few festivals he has worked as a ticketing superstar in the box office and most recently as ‘one of the best Volunteer Coordinators of the past 8 Fringe’s.’ He is enjoying the challenge of steering our AVR platform forward to make the lives easier for our artists and venues, pioneering the Fringes Cheryl’s on the beach volleyball court and learning more about the wonderful mind of Matt as they navigate our digital landscape together. 

Amanda Hillgrove

Assistant Ticketing Manager

Amanda joined the Adelaide Fringe team as a box office staff member in 2016, then moved into a Ticketing Coordinator role for the 2017 season, and has more recently taken up the role as Assistant Ticketing Manager, sitting a high-five’s distance away from Ella. Amanda’s favourite things include napping, travelling, alcoholic ginger beer, SNL, times shared around a bonfire, Fringe time, and her boys. 

Spencer Scholz

Senior Marketing Coordinator

Born at a young age in SA, Spencer studied his Masters of Arts and Cultural Management at the University of Melbourne and has worked in various roles for Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, and Adelaide Festival Centre. He first joined the Fringe team in 2015 as Programming Coordinator and would most often be seen running around the Fringe Club and not sleeping. He likes water-skiing, RUN-DMC and Netflix. He’s really into The Get Down right now.

Katherine Peach

Corporate Partnerships Coordinator

Undeterred by London’s grey skies and over-exposure to X-Factor winners (and losers), Katherine spent eight years living in the UK, where she headed-up global partnerships & events for international advertising publication and networking platform LBBonline. After three months driving through Europe’s lesser known parts and living like a local, she left the EU around the same time the UK did and returned to sunny South Australia for the wine, footy and pie floaters. When not Fringe-ing, Kat enjoys cooking, glitter and sparkles.

Liz Glenn

Corporate Partnerships Coordinator

Liz studied at the University of South Australia in Bachelor of Communications and Media Management. She joined the Adelaide Fringe in 2013 soon after completing her degree. In summer you will find her down at the beach and when the cooler weather sets in, she will be cheering her team on at the football. 

Bella Caruso

Marketing Coordinator - Membership

Bella is the brains behind the Fringe Membership program and spends her days on the hunt for deals and giveaways to the coolest events around town! She graduated her comms degree in 2013 and then spent about a year floating around Europe and living in London. Bella returned to Adelaide with a newfound passion for South Australian tourism and spent a year working for infamous music mag Rip It Up before joining the Fringe fam in 2016. She is a compassionate weirdo who loves live music and has a mild obsession with changing her hair colour, drinking tea and her cat Winston. 

Ashleigh McManus

Marketing Coordinator and Advertising Sales

After a couple of years flitting around Europe, Ashleigh felt the call to return to the boundless plains of Australia and embarked on her Adelaide Fringe journey in 2016. Having been bitten by the travel bug hard in her formative years, Ashleigh never has less than 3 hypothetical trips in various stages of planning, and studied her Marketing and Management degree in Adelaide, Denmark and Austria. Forever a glutton for punishment, she’s returned to uni to study Tourism and Event Management externally whilst juggling her Fringe commitments. Her favourite things include red wine, white wine, dessert wine, and apple and kiwi cordial. 

Chelsea Martin

Marketing Coordinator

Chelsea, who began at Adelaide Fringe in 2016, is an arts worker who can be spotted around the office wearing her reading glasses on a neck strap. She graduated media and marketing a few years ago and has been in festivals ever since. She loves coffee, snacks, travelling, podcasts, the contrast between her ute and vespa, and of course, seeing Fringe shows with a glass of sparkling red.

Kacy Ratta

Marketing Coordinator - Digital

Because years spent studying at a university weren’t enough, Kacy began her marketing career working in higher education before finally making the jump into the world of Fringe, into the role of Digital Marketing Coordinator. When not replying to your Facebook messages, or curating a gallery of the best emojis for the next Instagram post, Kacy can be found making tea, drinking tea, buying tea, or generally engaged in some other tea-related pursuit.

Jason Marsiglia

Artist and Venues Coordinator

Jason joined the Fringe team in 2016, after bouncing around festivals across Australia, including Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and more. Born and raised in Adelaide, he fell in love with Adelaide Fringe at an early age. He went on to produce, write and perform in Fringe shows, as well as work across a variety of Adelaide Fringe venues. Apart from festivals, Jason’s other passion is spoken word poetry, and his current life highlight was performing his work on the Sydney Opera House stage. 

Nadia Rossi

Artists and Venues Coordinator

Currently on maternity leave.

Nadia joined Adelaide Fringe in 2013 as part of the Programming team, moving to Parade Coordinator and now Artists and Venues Coordinator. Nadia loves talking, about anything, especially with artists about their Adelaide Fringe ideas. Nadia is also a founding member of theatre company isthisyours? and has performed with Windmill Theatre, State Theatre Company of South Australia and The Border Project. During Fringe time, Nadia can be seen running from her shift in the Artist Tent to any of the many shows in the festival. Fringe time is her favourite time.

Lauren Finch

Executive Assistant to Heather Croall

Lauren started with the Adelaide Fringe in 2014 after working at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe while traveling. She has worked as a superstar supervisor in the box offices and for the past 2 years, she has worked in the Ticketing department as a Coordinator. She has now made the move to Executive Assistant to the Director and CEO, Heather Croall.

Lauren has a cleaning problem, only wears black and is a single mother to her little French bulldog, Ponyo. Lauren likes to have a lol, a white wine with ice and bloody loves Fringe fun times. 

Chloe Elizabeth

Graphic Artist

Riding her bike straight in from university, Chloe joined the Adelaide Fringe family in 2015. Chloe’s a true believer of clear communication and logical problem solving through design, but always with a healthy dose of fun and Fringe stars! If not at their desks you’ll often find the design team making cups of tea in the kitchen, dancing around, or both. Always appreciates a good IPA, good music (see: BBC Radio 6), and a good boogie at the Fringe Club!

Nick Philips

Graphic Artist