9th August 2023
Secretary of State LUCY FRAZER has appointed PAUL SWEENEY Interim Chair of National Lottery Community Fund.
Sweeney took up post on 1 August, assuming the position for a 12-month period or until a permanent appointment is made. He replaces BLONDEL CHUFF, who resigns 18 months early after two and a half years.
His professional background has predominantly been in non-profit...
8th August 2023
JAN DE SCHYNKEL has joined Rosetta Arts as Chief Executive Officer.
He takes over from outgoing CEO SANAZ AMIDI, who led the organisation’s successful application to Arts Council England’s National Portfolio in 2018.
A creative leader, de Schynkel is a former Arts and Culture Manager at Ealing Council. In the role, he established the Cultural Education Partnership, devised and managed creative...
EVAN DAWSON is set to become Chief Executive of National Youth Arts Wales (NYAW), a charity for young performers and creatives.
Joining in October, he succeeds GILLIAN MITCHELL, who left the role in July following five years in post.
Dawson is a former CEO of the Royal Photographic Society. Here, he formulated a new and inclusive strategy and identity, and established the...
7th August 2023
Creative Director of Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse SUBA DAS has stepped down with immediate effect after just over a year in post.
Das was appointed in the spring of last year from his role as Artistic Director at HighTide.
Leading the Liverpool theatres, Das' debut season featured a reimagining of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, in collaboration with Churchill. Alongside this, he rejuvenated the Everyman panto and...
Artistic Director of the Barbican WILL GOMPERTZ has been appointed Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum and will take up the post in January 2024.
Gompertz succeeds Dr BRUCE BOUCHER who steps down from the Holborn museum at the end of this year following eight years at the helm.
Under Boucher’s leadership, the museum has undergone a restoration project and attracted record visitor numbers in 2022/23...
ELEANOR DUVAL will become Artistic Director of Yama Dance Company in September.
Based in Bath, the community dance company provides dance lessons, training and performance opportunities to over 60s.
Duval carries a distinguished career in dance and education, beginning training at the Hamburg Opera in Germany and London’s Rambert School and dancing professionally since 1998.
She joined The Mark Bruce Company...
4th August 2023
Music at Oxford is welcoming four new trustees to the Board.
Soprano at Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera and London Handel Festival CLAIRE BOOTH is among the appointments. Booth performs internationally, specialising in contemporary music, chamber ensemble, opera and theatre.
Composer, Lecturer and Composition Tutor DES OLIVER also joins the Board. Oliver has taught composition at Brunel...
3rd August 2023
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD) has named MICHAEL PLAUT OBE Chair.
He succeeds JOHN DERRICK, who will step down following six years in post.
Plaut is a Welsh business entrepreneur with experience shaping public policy and providing advisory services to governments in both Westminster and Cardiff. Initially beginning his career as an investment banker in London, he...
National Centre for Writing (NCW) has appointed PEGGY HUGHES Chief Executive Officer.
Stepping up to CEO in September, Hughes is the current Executive Director of NCW following four years as Head of Programmes. In her new role, she will lead on the literature house and cultural venue’s future plans for Norwich after the region recently became England’s first UNESCO City of Literature.
With a background in the...
1st August 2023
Birmingham Hippodrome has announced DEIRDRE O’HALLORAN as Head of New Musical Theatre.
Currently Literary Manager at the Bush Theatre, where she has designed and implemented artist development programmes and led on dramaturgy for all commissioned work, O’Halloran has also dramaturged work as a freelancer, is a regular panellist for BEAM pitching days and took part in judging this year's Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize....