Rebecca Conroy is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and curator, working across community culture development, devised performance and practice-based research. In 2006 she completed a PhD investigating oppositional performance practices in contemporary Indonesia.

Research for the doctorate involved living with underground artist communities during the most turbulent years of the Suharto regime where she developed life long creative partnerships and insight into the thriving contemporary art scene of Indonesia and more broadly South East Asia. In 2004 she directed Beyond the Factory Walls a multimedia theatre collaboration with a factory workers theatre company Teater Buruh Indonesia and five Australian art workers in the slums of Jakarta funded by Asialink.
Since 2004 Rebecca has nestled herself within the Sydney artist run spaces scene, co-founding The Wedding Circle (Chippendale, 2004 - 2006), and the creative industries studio Bill and George in Redfern (2007 – current) where she initiated the ArtSlab residency program supported by the City of Sydney (2008). In 2005 Rebecca co-initiated Gang Festival, a creative exchange and festival of artist run space’s in Sydney and Java, which ran for four years and involved more than 20 residencies as well as a number of exchange projects in Alice Springs, Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane.

In the spaces in-between, Rebecca writes for performance and presents at forums and panels on a range of threads connecting spatial politics, creative industries, critical practices and collaborative art making. In June 2008 Rebecca was appointed the Associate Director of Performance Space, where she manages the performance program, the short works program Nighttime, and the intercultural theatre residency program, Translab.