1st November 2019
After five years at the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres, where he is currently Producer, BENJAMIN LLOYD will be joining the Torch Theatre, Pembrokeshire’s only professional theatre venue and arts complex, in January next year. In the new role of Executive Director, he will work alongside Artistic Director Peter Doran and the board of trustees to build and develop the theatre's artistic and commercial strategic...
HABDA RASHID will be joining Create London as Senior Curator, leaving the Whitechapel Gallery where she has been a member of the curatorial team. She is also a mentor on the ACME Studios International Artist Residency Programme, a Trustee at PEER Gallery and a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths University and RCA.
CARAGH MERRICK will be the new Chair of the Board of Governors at the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. Formerly a senior audit partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers, she is a trustee of the University of Birmingham and the Royal College of Art, and former Board member at organisations including the National Theatre, the National Foundation for Youth Music, Help Musicians UK, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, and UCAS. She...
Three new trustees have been appointed at the National Gallery for a four-year term. They are CATHERINE GOODMAN, founding Artistic Director of the Royal Drawing School; BBC Director-General, TONY HALL CBE; and STUART RODEN, former Chairman of Lansdowne Partners.
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....