28th June 2019
Chief Executive Officer of Henley Festival CHARLOTTE GEEVES is joining Bristol Old Vic as its new Executive Director in September. She takes over from EMMA STENNING, who left to become Executive Director of Canada’s Soulpepper Theatre Company last year.
27th June 2019
A nature writer, a conservation group and the Sámi people of Northern Finland have all been among the key influences on the work of Victoria Pratt, Creative Director of the interactive art studio Invisible Flock.
21st June 2019
DAWN WALTON, the founder, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Black-led production company Eclipse Theatre is stepping down after a decade with the company. Under her leadership the company achieved Arts Council England’s NPO status, and this year it launched The Eclipse Award, a £10,000 bursary to help UK Black artists and Black-led theatre companies put on performances at the Edinburgh Fringe.
REBECCA MANSON JONES, founder of participatory theatre company Just Jones &, has been appointed as Spare Tyre’s new Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive Officer. She joins after a nine-month period leading immersive theatre company Oily Cart as Interim Director. She has held senior roles at Exeter Northcott Theatre and The Almeida Theatres, and was the first UK winner of an Ibsen Scholarship for her immersive gender-...
Five new Trustees have been appointed to the British Library board: DELROY BEVERLEY, Executive Director at Nottingham City Homes; JEREMY SILVER, CEO of Digital Catapult and a member of the UK Creative industries Council; WEI YANG, Chairman of Wei Yang & Partners, an urban design and master planning practice in London; LAELA PAKPOUR-TABRIZI, Group Chief Financial Officer of...
DARIUS KHWAJA, Principal and CEO of the London College of Creative Media (LCCM), is joining Wac Arts as its new Chief Executive. As the co-founder of LCCM, a specialist higher education college for music, writing and entrepreneurship, he helped grow the organisation over 16 years. This included the development of the £34m Music Box in Southwark.
Former airline boss TONY DAVIS has been appointed Board Chair of the East Midlands professional orchestra Sinfonia Viva. The aviation consultant and advisor has previously served on the board of New College Nottingham and the Lichfield Festival.
CHARLY RICHARDSON, Lead Officer at Essex Music Education, is replacing PETER HAYWARD as Chief Executive of Lewisham Music. Hayward is retiring after a decade leading the organisation.
Dame JOAN RUDDOCK, MP for Lewisham Deptford from 1987 to 2015, has also joined the Music Education Hub as Chair of the its newly-expanded Board of Trustees. The new board members are FIONA LAMBERT...
Creative Producer at the Actors Centre JOEL FISHER is leaving after two years leading the organisation, in order to pursue other creative projects.
14th June 2019
National Theatre Wales CEO KULLY THIARAI is leaving the company to become Artistic Director of cultural investment programme Leeds 2023. Thiarai, who has previously worked at Leeds Playhouse and Transform Festival, said she was "thrilled" to return to the city and create a "unique, daring and ambitious" range of works for its year-long culture festival.