7th October 2020
CAROLYN ML FORSYTH (pictured left) is joining Talawa Theatre Company as Executive Director to work alongside Artistic Director and CEO, Michael Buffong. Forsyth’s career has included co-producing with leading regional venues and independent production companies, leading UK and international presentations from Dance Umbrella, Lokal, Spring, and Spieltart festivals, and being part of the leadership team responsible for launching...
After seven years with Dance Umbrella, EMMA GLADSTONE will step down as Artistic Director and Chief Executive after this year’s digital-only festival. She said: “Numerous things have combined leading up to my decision, both personal and professional, including my belief in the need to keep programming views rolling, the sense of being at the end of a particular era, the strength of the current team, and the fact that we are at the...
ALAN RUSBRIDGER will step down from the National Theatre board in November, and SIMON MINTY and MELANIE RICHARDS will be joining. A consultant, trainer and speaker in the field of diversity, Minty is a non-executive director of Motability Operations and a trustee of Improbable Theatre and StopGap Dance. He is also an Ambassador to the Business Disability Forum and Business Disability International...
28th September 2020
JANE IDE, CEO of NAVCA, the national membership body for voluntary and community sector support and development organisations, has been appointed as CEO of Creative & Cultural Skills, and will join in November. She takes on the role left vacant earlier this year when SIMON DANCEY resigned on...
27th September 2020
Five new recruits have joined the team bidding for Bradford to become UK City of Culture for 2025. Journalist SI CUNNINGHAM (pictured second from right), a Director of Bradford Business Improvement District and member of Bradford Economic Recovery Board, takes the role of Communications & Bid Development Manager; Research Intern HUNNAN HAIDER (pictured second from left) will lead on database compilation,...
MELANIE STOUTZKER is joining The London Library as Fundraising Director as it aproaches its 180th anniversary next year. With more than 25 years as a development professional working on fundraising projects in the heritage, cultural, arts, research, health and charity sectors, she will be supporting plans to develop the Library’s facilities, expand its role as a literary and cultural resource and secure its long-term financial...
SHERRY DOBBIN has been appointed to chair the Urban Land Institute, the UK’s Urban Art Forum that advocates for creative placemaking, bringing together the cultural and creative industries with the property sector. A partner in the global placemaking and public art commissioning agency Futurecity, she takes over from co-founder HALA EL-AKL. Dobbin’s experience includes producing, managing and curating art forms...
MADDY MILLS (pictured) has joined London-based participatory arts company Entelechy Arts as its new Director. Founder of the social enterprise Family Volunteering Club, she was previously Producer of Artistic Programming at the Southbank Centre for over five years. Entelechy’s founding Artistic Director DAVID SLATER becomes Associate from October and will maintain a light-touch relationship with the organisation...
Writer and composer GUS GOWLAND has been appointed as Programme Leader for a new Musical Theatre degree at the University of Lincoln. He previously taught at Leeds Conservatoire, University Centre Shrewsbury and the University of Wolverhampton.
23rd September 2020
HELEN SPROTT, previously Managing Director of the Philharmonia Orchestra and Director, Music, at Arts Council England, will take on the Executive Director role at the charity NMC Recordings for a year. She succeeds ANNE RUSHTON, who has held the post for over 17 years. With General Manager ELEANOR WILSON going on maternity leave, Sprott will work with Director of Development ALEX WRIGHT...