Tobias Perkins

Tobias Perkins | Executive Director

Tobias is an experienced producer and arts administrator having worked across the classical music, opera, and dance sectors. A musician by training, his professional career has included positions at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London’s Barbican Centre and at Northern Ballet, UK. Tobias worked in several positions during his seven years at Northern Ballet including as Director of Planning and Interim Executive Director. Particular successes during his tenure included bringing the highly popular Children’s Ballets strand of work to audiences of upwards of 30,000 young people and their families each year. This was recognised in 2022 with a nomination for the UK Theatres Excellence in Touring Award. 

Tobias has also served as a trustee to Mobius Dance before joining the Royal New Zealand Ballet as Executive Director in July 2023. During three years in post at RNZB Tobias is proud to have continued building support for ballet in Aotearoa that allows the artform to thrive. Alongside Artistic Director Ty King-Wall this has meant pairing bold new commissioning with extending both the company’s audience reach and its whānau of supporters. This has been rewarded by record breaking audience numbers in 2025. Tobias is proud to have introduced the Haythorne Circle of support whose investment in the company is directed towards bringing ambitious new work to the stage and looks forward to developing this further in years to come as the company builds towards its 75th year in 2028.