Background
Sedgwick was born in Sydney, but grew up in Adelaide, where she attended Marryatville High School.
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Career
Sedgwick began her career as a nine-year-old performer in the Australian film classic The Last Wave, directed by Peter Weir. She also provided the voice of McDuff in the Australian children"s television series, Johnson and Friends, as well as being the character"s costume actor for the first two seasons. She co-founded the Sydney Fringe Festival in 1995.
From there, she became Special Events Producer (1998, 2000) for the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Artistic Director of Come Out "99.
In 2001, she had her bags packed and "was about to leave Adelaide," when Premier Mike Rann asked her to oversee the creation of a new film festival. From 2002 to January 2012, she was the founding Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Adelaide Film Festival and the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund, a delegate to the Prime Minister’s Australia 2020 Summit, and Chair of the South Australian Youth Arts Board.
She oversaw five festivals, then left to pursue other opportunities. Sedgwick joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (American Broadcasting Company) in April 2012, where she commissioned a slate of programs, including: Autopsy on A Dream, The Art of Australia, I Want to Dance Better At Parties, Hannah Gadsby’s Oz, The Real Mary Poppins, Art & Soul 2, and the AACTA-nominated documentaries Brilliant Creatures and Tender.
She oversaw ongoing television series The Book Club, Jennifer Byrne Presents and At the Movies.
She chaired the American Broadcasting Company Arts Council and, according to Richard Finlayson, American Broadcasting Company’s Director of television, established an American Broadcasting Company Arts brand that engaged with arts content across television, Radio, News and Online. Sedgwick resigned as Head of television Arts at the American Broadcasting Company in February 2015, then took up the position of Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne.
Membership
Her first job out of school was as a member of a traveling clown company.
