Limelight Magazine is delighted to have received a grant from the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism & Ideas as part of its initiative to support freelancers and casual contributors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Institute will continue to award grants on a rolling basis, with new grantees to be announced soon.

Limelight will use the financial support to employ three freelance writers – Deborah Jones, Lynden Barber and Dr Nick Gordon – to write a weekly column about digital highlights in dance, film/television and visual arts, respectively. Their pieces will accompany weekly columns by Limelight editorial staff about classical music, opera and theatre/musical theatre to help readers discover some of the gems among the overwhelming amount of arts material now available online.

Dr Nick Gordon, Deborah Jones and Lynden Barber

Deborah Jones is a writer and critic specialising in dance, with an honours degree in Drama from the University of Newcastle. A former, long-serving Arts Editor of The Australian newspaper, she is currently the paper’s national dance critic. She is also the Sydney correspondent for the London-based Opera magazine and is a regular contributor to The Australian Ballet’s theatre programs. She has previously...