19th February 2021
Wakefield Theatre Trust, the owner and operator of Theatre Royal Wakefield, has appointed four new trustees to the Board of Directors: NIGEL BROOK, former Assistant Chief Officer at West Yorkshire Police; DARREN JOHNSON, Coronation Street actor and Founder of touring pantomime company Pocket Panto; DANIEL MCCORMACK, partner in the Corporate Finance team at Lupton Fawcett LLP; and BRANDON...
POLLY BRANNAN is joining Open School East as its new Artistic Director. The former Education Curator at Liverpool Biennial (2012-18) and at Serpentine Galleries (2011–13) will be responsible for the organisation’s artistic vision, devising curricula across the school’s learning programmes, delivery of the associates programme, and curatorial projects. She is Founder, Co-Director and artist at socially-engaged arts and environment...
Choreographer, dancer and director JACK WEBB has joined Hearts & Minds as its newest trustee. He has worked internationally with many companies and choreographers, as well as establishing his own practice as a choreographer and teacher. Currently, he is working independently as a choreographer and performer and is a part-time lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
12th February 2021
DR STEVE BALL has been announced as Principal of BOA Stage & Screen Production, a new 16-19 academy specialising in film, TV, online and theatre production, opening in Birmingham in September 2021.
Starting his career as a teacher, he then became the founding Artistic Director of Language Alive! providing educational theatre for primary schools in Birmingham. He was subsequently Head of Arts for Birmingham City Council...
Currently Director of Shoreditch Town Hall, JAMES PIDGEON will be the new Executive Director and Joint Chief Executive at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. A Trustee of Theatre Royal Plymouth and member of the Advisory Board of Theatre Re, he will succeed WILLIAM VILLAGE, who takes up the role of Chief Executive at...
ROBERT READ, formerly Managing Director of the performance and conference centre Kings Place, London, has taken up the role of CEO at National Concert Hall Ireland, Dublin’s music and entertainment venue.
Before joining Kings Place he was Chief Operating Officer of the visual rights management organisation DACS, prior to which he was Operations Director at Tate Enterprises, the commercial arm of Tate Gallery. He has also...
JANET FISCHER has been appointed to the new role of Chief Executive at the music charity Live Music Now. NINA SWANN, previously Musicians' Development Director and Director of the South East branch of the organisation, takes the role of Executive Director following an interim period covering that role during the pandemic. Both appointments follow a review aiming to extend the charity’s reach and impact.
Fischer has worked...
DR VANESSA OGDEN will succeed JOHN LANGLEY as Chair of the Board at London’s Unicorn theatre. The theatre produces and presents work for young audiences, and Ogden will draw on her experiences as Headteacher of Mulberry School for Girls for 15 years, and as founding CEO of the Mulberry Schools Trust, which includes a Teaching School, a parent and community centre with a professional theatre and a new STEM Academy...
OperaUpClose has appointed a new Chair, ABIGAIL TOLAND, who was founding a trustee of Second Movement opera company. She replaces JANE EARL, who has served as Chair since 2016 and has been appointed Chair of Sunderland Culture.
Three new trustees have also joined the board: MATTHEW LYONS is Head of Young Company at Chickenshed; CAROLYN WARD has been a trustee at Soho...
JAMES WATERS is the new Chair of the Board at National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCOS), succeeding JOANNA BAKER, who held the role for the previous seven years. A founder trustee of NYCOS in 1996, Waters rejoined the board between 2013 and 2019. He is currently Director of the Lammermuir Festival, Creative Director for Classical Music at Perth Concert Hall and classical programmer at the Bath Festival, and was...