10th June 2021
Shakespeare's Globe has appointed two new Co-Directors of Education.
Professor FARAH KARIM-COOPER and LUCY CUTHBERTSON will share the role, having worked as joint interim leaders throughout the Globe's year of closure.
Karim-Cooper was previously Head of Higher Education and Research at Shakespeare's Globe, where she has worked for the last 17 years.
Cuthbertson has been the Head of Learning...
MANVINDER RATTAN will join the Voices Foundation as its Chief Executive from September.
He is currently CEO and Head of Conductor Training at Sing for Pleasure, where he devised a young conductors' programme. His role at Voices Foundation will involve implementing the music education organisation's three-year strategy, focussing specifically on disadvantaged pupils.
Rattan has been Musical Director of the John Lewis...
National Dance Company Wales has appointed four new trustees: CATHRYN ALLEN, MARTIN HYLTON, KRYSTAL S. LOWE and TUPAC MARTIR.
Allen, a Welsh language speaker, has held board positions at the BBC and has her own leadership consultancy company, Creating Answers.
Hylton is a high-profile dance professional and founding Artistic Director/CEO of Gateway Studio; Lowe is also a dancer who has performed with...
8th June 2021
The Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB) has appointed MICHAEL BEAVAN as its new Director of Partnerships & Projects.
Previously Head of Events and National Publicity for Warner Bros Pictures, Beavan has run his own publicity, events and tour management company, Production Publicity Ltd, since 2001.
His new role will include overseeing strategy and delivery of The Production Guild of Great Britain Awards.
7th June 2021
KATE MASON has been named Chair of the Society of Designer Craftsmen.
Mason has worked in arts, heritage and cultural roles for 27 years and has an MA in Heritage and Museum Studies. She is also a Companion of The Guild of St George and a Trustee of the House of Imagination.
The Royal Ballet has announced that First Soloist BEATRIZ STIX-BRUNELL is leaving the company after 11 years. Stix-Brunell has been First Soloist since 2016 and performed in more than 15 productions, including as Perdita in The Winter's Tale and the title role in Cathy Marston's The Cellist. Her last performance will be in The Beauty Mixed Programme later this year.
Development Director and Joint CEO BETH HOUSE has left Taking Flight Theatre Company.
She founded the company, which works with Deaf and disabled performers, 12 years ago and said she was "in awe of all we've achieved".
House also opened Wales' first and only theatre for deaf children at the Wales Milennium Centre in Cardiff early last year.
Hope Theatre Artistic Director KENNEDY BLOOMER will leave the Islington venue in August to pursue a career in teaching and theatre fundraising.
She took over from MATTHEW PARKER in January last year, two months before the theatre was forced to close. She started working at Hope Theatre as a Theatre Assistant in 2017.
3rd June 2021
SCOTT MCDONALD is joining the British Council as its new Chief Executive in September. He is currently Chief Executive and President of global management consultancy Oliver Wyman Group and Vice-Chairman of Marsh McLennan, a leading professional services firm. He replaces Interim CEO KATE-EWART BIGGS, who will move into the role of Deputy Chief Executive.
Northern Ballet has announced that DAVID NIXON, its longest serving Artistic Director, will step down from the role in December after 20 years. During his time there the company has produced 29 full-length ballets; as a choreographer and designer, Nixon created 13 of them.
His contributions to the company include Wuthering Heights, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Great Gatsby and The Little Mermaid. He restaged and adapted a...