1st November 2019
TRUDA SPRUYT, Practice Director at Four Culture, has joined the Board of the Theatres Trust. She is also Chair of the Philosophy Foundation and co-founder of Borough Book Bash.
Dancer and choreographer RUTH BRILL, who retired from Birmingham Royal Ballet earlier this year, will succeed LUCILLE BRIANCE MBE as Artistic Director of London Children’s Ballet (LCB). Announcing her departure, Briance told One Dance UK: “I have come to the conclusion after 25 years of open auditions that ballet is grossly...
25th October 2019
LORNE CAMPBELL, Artistic Director of Northern Stage for the past six and a half years, will become the new Artistic Director of National Theatre Wales in spring 2020, succeeding KULLY THIARAI. He began his career at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and has also worked as a freelance theatre director, creating productions for Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres, Birmingham Rep, Theatre Royal Bath, Traverse...
The new Chair of the Young Vic board is GLENN EARLE. A partner in independent investment bank Ardea Partners International, a board member of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Deputy Chair of educational charity Teach First, he retired in 2011 from Goldman Sachs International, where he was Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer. He succeeds PATRICK MCKENNA, who has been Chair of the board for nearly 20 years...
PROFESSOR GAVIN HENDERSON is to step down as Principal of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in August next year after 13 years in post. His previous roles have included being Director of the Brighton Festival and Principal of Trinity College of Music – which under his leadership merged with the Laban Centre for Dance to create what is now Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
POLLY STAPLE, Director of Chisenhale Gallery since 2008 and formerly Director of Frieze Projects, has been appointed as Director of Collection, British Art at Tate. Co-founder of the Common Practice initiative, an advocacy group for the contemporary visual arts sector, she was previously Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Elephant Trust and a member of the Acquisitions and Advisory Committee for the Arts Council Collection....
NATASHA HARRIS is joining the Barbican Centre in the new role of Director of Development, with responsibility for fundraising. Director of Development for The Old Vic for eleven years, she has also held roles as Head of Development and Head of Individual Giving the Serpentine Gallery.
Acting Chief Executive of Creative Scotland IAIN MUNRO has been appointed permanently to the role of Chief Executive at Creative Scotland with immediate effect following a competitive recruitment process. He has been performing the role since July 2018 when he took over from Janet Archer.
GABRIELLE LEADBEATER is leaving her role as Associate Producer of Ellie Keel Productions to join new writing venue Theatre503 as Producer. She replaces JAKE ORR, who leaves the venue to become Producer at Nottingham Playhouse.
As part of a partnership programme to support the career development of Deaf and Disabled curators, disability arts organisation DASH and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) have announced that artist, curator and writer AIDAN MOESBY will join MIMA as Resident Curator. During the year-long role, which starts in January 2020, he will be working with the Middlesbrough Collection, the town’s public collection of modern and...