4th January 2024
MATT TODD has become Royal Albert Hall's (RAH) Director of Programming.
Todd held the role in 2023 on an interim basis and now takes on the permanent position with immediate effect.
His role oversees all performances on the main stage, including RAH's engagement work, tours programme, and the production and technical team.
Previously, Todd was Education & Community Director at London Philharmonic Orchestra...
Executive Director of Morecambe's More Music, KATHRYN MACDONALD, will step down after 27 years with the organisation.
MacDonald was More Music’s first employee and was appointed Executive Director in 2020. During her time with the music and education charity, she initiated the Catch the Wind Kite Festival, which she continued to produce for two decades.
More Music said MacDonald has been an "integral part" of the...
3rd January 2024
Artistic Director (AD) and CEO of The Royal Ballet School, CHRISTOPHER POWNEY, will step down following a decade at the helm.
He will leave the company in July, at the end of his second five-year term.
After qualifying as a teacher with Royal Ballet's Professional Dancers Teachers’ Course and then teaching at the school in 2000, Powney joined the Dutch National Ballet Academy as AD and founded the Amsterdam...
2nd January 2024
Manchester-based arts charity Something To Aim For (STAF) has announced changes in leadership.
Executive Director of STAF JANET TAM will become Joint Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) while the organisation's Founder, Creative Director and CEO TRACY GENTLES gears up to join SICK! Productions as its...
FIONA BUTCHER is the new Chair at English Folk Dance and Song Society.
Butcher is General Counsel and Company Secretary of educational charity Trinity College London.
Before this, she worked in fields of EU and competition law, regulation and compliance, including as the Legal Director of Ofwat.
She is a trustee of Royal Museums Greenwich.
"I am honoured and delighted to be appointed as the new Chair...
21st December 2023
ANNA MOUTREY and SEAN PRITCHARD will join the Royal Exchange Theatre under a restructured senior leadership team after the producing theatre recently dropped its artistic director model.
Moutrey has been named Director of Producing, while Pritchard will assume the role of Director of...
Manchester-based arts organisation SICK! Productions, also known as SICK! Festival has announced that founder and current Artistic Director (AD) and Chief Executive HELEN MEDLAND will step down after 24 years at the organisation's helm.
Medland will be succeeded by TRACY GENTLES, current founder, Creative Director and Chief Executive of Something to Aim For.
SICK! Productions has recently appointed...
20th December 2023
Three new trustees are joining Chichester Festival Theatre's Board.
Among them is PADDY DILLON, Director of Renew Culture.
In 2020, Dillon co-founded Green Book, an initiative to promote sustainable practices among theatre workers. He has since co-established an international network of Theatre Green Books.
Also an architect, Dillon was responsible for the regeneration of the National Theatre and chaired the...
Imperial War Museum (IWM) has named Sir GUY WESTON Chair, effective 1 April 2024.
Weston has been a member of the Board since 2019.
As Chair, he succeeds MATTHEW WESTERMAN, Board member at IWM for nine years before becoming Chair in 2019.
Weston is also Chair of the Garfield Weston Foundation and Wittington Investments Limited, and a member of the Council at Royal College of Music.
He...
JONATHAN WILLIAMS is leaving the British Museum.
In August, Williams agreed to "step back" from his role pending an independent review into thefts at the institution after allegedly dismissing warnings about the stolen and missing artefacts brought to his attention in early 2021.
He was temporarily ...