Elizabeth Warner
Ms Elizabeth Warner
Corporate Development Manager
Bell Shakespare
Elizabeth's career has been varied, extending across a number of different industries - her working life started in politics, progressed to publishing, and she now finds herself working behind the scenes for a performing arts company - Bell Shakespeare.
For 16 years Bell Shakespeare's productions and education programmes have entertained and inspired their way across Australia - bringing Shakespeare's words to life in a uniquely Australian way. The challenge now is to tour the Company's repertoire within the Asian region, which can only be achieved with the support of government and business. Theatre is about storytelling and through Asialink, Elizabeth hopes to make her case for business to take leadership in supporting the performing arts as we share our stories with our Asian neighbours.
Before embarking on a theatrical career, Elizabeth established a custom publishing business in 1997 with the flagship title Silks Magazine. Silks was a quarterly lifestyle, horseracing magazine with a circulation to 40,000 race club members, nationally. During this period Elizabeth had the good fortune to visit, and lose money, at racecourses in Hong Kong and Singapore. In May 2003 the title was sold to Australia's second largest publisher, Pacific Publications, and its two directors took a well-earned break.
Prior to spending a number of years at the track, Elizabeth worked for the Liberal Party and Coalition governments in various roles and in various states. Although it's been many years since she worked in politics, Elizabeth has remained actively involved as a Party member.
Personal achievements include walking the Kokoda track twice (twice, because she nearly didn't finish the first time), swimming from Palm to Whale Beach (2.7kms) to raise money for Cancer Research and learning to ski at age 36.