About Danielle

Danielle Harvey is a curator, creative and polymath. Currently the Festival Director of the infamous Festival of Dangerous Ideas and Head of Live Programs for the unique art destination Bundanon, Danielle works across live performance, talks, installation, and digital spaces, creating layered programs that connect deeply with audiences.

She is director of multidisciplinary creative company Dancing Giant Productions. Her recent works have included the large-scale immersive experiences Eternityland and A Midnight Visit . She is the founder of pop and screen-culture festival BingeFest; founder of Antidote: a festival of ideas, art and action; former Executive Producer of popular podcast It’s A Long Story; and former co-curator of All About Women, the Sydney Opera House’s feminist festival.

Danielle has been responsible for a large number of theatre, dance and cabaret productions showing in Sydney, including This Is Our Youth, starring Michael Cera and Kieran Culkin; The Illusionists; Circus 1903; Limbo Unhinged; Swan Lake: Loch na hEala; Barbu; Club Swizzle; Miss Behave Gameshow; Ballet Preljocaj’s Snow White; and Bill Murray and Jan Vogler in concert.

She’s worked with culture creators like Shia LaBeouf, Tavi Gevinson, Dan Harmon, Brian Reed, Ira Glass, Arianna Huffington, David Simon, Miranda July, and presented thought leaders like Noam Chomsky, Germaine Greer, Janet Mock, Salman Rushdie, Stephen Hawking, Elizabeth Gilbert and Eve Ensler.

Past roles include Head of Contemporary Performance at Sydney Opera House and Festival Executive Producer of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras. Career highlights include producing Spencer Tunick’s mass nude installation The Base, touring comediennes Margaret Cho and Joan Rivers, presenting Stephen Hawking as a hologram in the first event of its kind, and creating stage shows for Cyndi Lauper, George Michael, Olivia Newton-John and Amanda Lepore. Other parts of her resume include theatre directing credits, philanthropy programs and a terrible stint in a deli at age 15.