John Lane

“The Trouble With Trying to Be Good…and my love affair with the Ukulele…“

John Lane has worked as a professional performer, and director of community arts projects. Way back he did a few years of Medicine at Monash University, but chucked it in and joined a travelling theatre company in Queensland. His gigs and projects took him to outdoor festivals across Australia and in the USA; into mining towns, schools, campuses, meat-works, prisons, hospitals, parks and gardens; onto trams, buses, ferries and trains, and even occasionally into theatres. After nearly three decades of the life of a freelancing artist, John’s path inexorably led him back to working in the health sector, and since 2000 he has been employed as the Artistic Coordinator of the Festival for Healthy Living program with the Royal Children’s Hospital Mental Health Service; involving the creation and coordination of arts and wellbeing projects in over 35 disadvantaged communities across Victoria.