Susan Mary Provan AO is an Australian performing arts producer, who has been director of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival since 1994.
Susan Mary Provan studied a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne.
[1] Provan credits comedy producer John Pinder and his business partner Roger Evans with giving her her first job in comedy, and for introducing her to Circus Oz.
[2] She became the manager of the Last Laugh Theatre,[1] a restaurant and comedy venue in Melbourne run by Pinder and Evans from 1976 until the mid-1980s.
In 1993, she became an associate producer at the State Theatre Company of South Australia, before taking up the directorship of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 1994.