11th April 2024
Actors Touring Company has announced that CEO and Executive Director ANDREW SMAJE will step down after eight years of co-leading the organisation.
AMBER MASSIE-BLOOMFIELD will join as Interim Executive Director later this month while the search for a permanent replacement begins.
Before joining ATC in 2016, Smaje held positions as Chief Executive at Hull Truck Theatre, Associate Director at Theatre...
MARIANNE BARRACLOUGH will take up the role of Executive Director at More Music from July, replacing KATHRYN MACDONALD, who leaves the organisation after 30 years,
Barraclough joins the Morecambe-based community music and education charity after serving as Deputy Chief Executive (Programme) at Sinfonia Viva, a not-for-profit orchestra and music education charity based in Derby.
She said: “I am...
CHARLOTTE MILLER and CRAIG WEST have joined the Music Education Council (MEC) as trustees.
As Programme Director of the National Youth Orchestra (NYO) of Great Britain, West oversees all its activities, including equity and open access programmes.
Before joining NYO, West held roles at the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sage Gateshead, the Royal Northern Sinfonia and, more recently, as General...
10th April 2024
Sir ROLY KEATING has announced that he will leave his role as Chief Executive of the British Library in April next year.
Keating was appointed to the post in 2012 following a broadcasting career at the BBC, where launched BBC Four and served as Controller of BBC Two and Director of Archive Content.
He is a trustee of the Clore Leadership Programme and chairs the Steering Committee for the AHRC-funded research...
9th April 2024
ANDREW SHEPHERD has been appointed Chief Executive of Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch. He will take up the role in July.
He replaces MATHEW RUSSELL who, during a seven-year tenure, oversaw the theatre's first capital redevelopment and major fundraising achievements including a significant increase in Arts Council England funding.
With a background in fundraising and independent theatre and film...
TARA WILKINSON has been appointed Executive Director of Tall Stories theatre company.
Together with co-founder and Artistic Director TOBY MITCHELL and Marking Director CLARE LEWIS, Wilkinson will lead and shape the future of the family theatre storytelling company
Wilkinson joins Tall Stories from the Almeida Theatre where she has been a producer since 2019. She brings 16 years'...
ANDREW COMBEN has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Britten Pears Arts succeeding ROGER WRIGHT CBE, who will stand down in July after 10 years at the helm.
Comben, who takes up the role in September 2024, joins Britten Pears Arts from Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival where he has been Chief Executive since 2008.
Originally from Australia, he has worked in the arts in the UK since 1993...
8th April 2024
SEAMUS McGIBBON is to become Co-Chief Executive of Making Music, a charity representing the UK’s leisure-time music sector.
He will lead the organisation alongside existing Chief Executive BARBARA EIFLER, who has held the post for the last ten years.
Previously CEO of the Association of Photographers, McGibbon has also worked at the Creators’ Rights Alliance, The Culture Trust Luton, UK Theatre,...
Seven trustees will join the Wallace Collection board following their appointment by the Prime Minister.
MARCUS AGIUS, ALEXANDRA SHULMAN and DAVINDER TOOR each began four-year terms on 22 January 2024, while SPENCER DE GREY, JOSEPHINE FITZALAN-HOWARD, LARRY KEITH and JAKYUNG MOON LAMBERT commenced five-year terms on the same date.
Agius worked as a banker at Lazard LLC and Barclays...
4th April 2024
Watershed in Bristol has appointed STEPHEN GATFIELD as its new Chair following the departure of JAMES TOUZEL, who steps down from the board after 11 years.
Gatfield is Global Chairman of brand design studio Elmwood Design and Founding Director of Believe Entertainment. He has been a member of Watershed’s board since 2014, leading its artful Innovation programme and mentoring start-ups in...