25th October 2019
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.
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.
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...
Journalist and broadcaster POLLY TOYNBEE will retire as Chair of Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival at the end of the year, and current Trustee DANNY HOMAN, previously senior leader at Historic Royal Palaces and The Big Lottery Fund, will replace her. A further five Trustees have also been appointed: JUDAH ARMANI, founder of InHouse Records; NICK JUBA, Chief Executive of Greater...
The new Centre for Cultural Value in Leeds has appointed TAMSIN CURROR as Communications Manager. She is currently National Communications Manager for Creative People and Places.
DAN HICKLIN is moving from his role as Senior Communications Officer at Bill Elms Associates to become the new Press and Communications Officer at Bolton’s Octagon Theatre. A multi-million pound redevelopment of the venue is underway and the theatre is set to reopen in spring 2020.
DEBORAH BESTWICK, Director at Ovalhouse for over 20 years, will be leaving the organisation ahead of its move to a new theatre in Brixton. She said: “We want a new Artistic Director to have a long lead-in, get to know the building and its community and potential before we open the doors... I will continue to support...
18th October 2019
SEBASTIAN CATER will join the senior management team at UK Theatre and Society of London Theatre in January 2020, taking over from Cassie Chadderton. He has nearly 20 years’ experience in the commercial and subsidised cultural sector, including roles as Director of Marketing and Sales at Sadler’s Wells and prior to that Head of Marketing at media agency Target Live. He is also Director of Dance Consortium.
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Following an open call for Disabled applicants to become board members of the music, disability and technology organisation Drake Music, Consultant CHAS DE SWIET is replacing ROGER VIGILANCE as Chair. He is joined on the board by new trustees JODI ALISSA BICKERTON (Graeae Theatre Company), MATT LLOYD (Consultant and Paralympian) and CAMERON BRAY (Artist). Another...