Heather Croall

Heather Ann Croall AM (born 1966 or 1967) is an Australian arts administrator and documentary filmmaker. She is best known for leading Sheffield Doc/Fest in Sheffield, England, and Adelaide Fringe, in Adelaide, South Australia. She has been CEO and artistic director of the Adelaide Fringe since 2015, and leaves the role to take up an appointment as director of historic home and arts venue Carrick Hill on 20 February 2026. She wrote, directed, and co-produced Paradise Bent: Boys will be Girls in Samoa in 1999, and has co-produced several documentary films, including The Big Melt (2013), From Scotland with Love (2014), and Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise (2015). She co-wrote as well as directed and produced a documentary film made as a tribute to her father, Yer Old Faither, released in 2020.