21st February 2024
Co-founder and Chief Executive of Threshold Studios UZMA JOHAL has announced she will depart the organisation to take up a new role at Counterculture.
SAMANTHA LINDLEY will step up from Co-Director to lead the digital placemaking agency.
Lindley first joined Threshold in 2003 as Production Co-ordinator. She is the Festival Director for Threshold’s flagship project, Frequency International Festival...
IAIN GOOSEY has been appointed as Executive Director of Kiln Theatre to work alongside recently appointed Artistic Director and CEO AMIT SHARMA.
Goosey is currently Director of Producing and Planning at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. He will take up his new role at the end of May 2024.
At the Lyric, he produced many successful productions, including Accidental Death of an Anarchist (recently running...
20th February 2024
KATIE MOFFAT has been named as the new Chair of the Board of FACT Liverpool, a centre for art, film and the creative use of technology.
Currently Director of Sector Strategy at digital agency Substrakt, Moffat is an experienced digital strategist, consultant and trainer, specialising in the arts and not-for-profit sector.
She has previously served as a trustee and Vice Chair of Abandon Normal Devices.
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19th February 2024
The Co-Directors of community organisation Fun Palaces, KIRSTY LOTHIAN and MAKALA CHEUG, are stepping down from their joint role to pursue new challenges.
Their decision to leave comes as the organisation undergoes a restructure to lead it into its second decade.
Lothian has been with Fun Palaces since the start. She said: "I have been here for 10 years, and it's time to move on....
Artichoke Trust has named MA’AYAN PLANE its new Director of Development, replacing LIZ MCCARTHY, who is leaving to become Director of Development at Chichester Festival Theatre.
Plane was previously Artichoke’s Deputy Director of Development. She first joined Artichoke in 2010 and subsequently held roles at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Children & the Arts before returning to Artichoke in 2017...
15th February 2024
KAUBAB STEWART has been appointed the new Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development in a Scottish cabinet reshuffle, following the resignation of former Health Secretary MICHAEL MATHESON over roaming charges on his parliamentary iPad.
A former primary school teacher for almost 30 years, Stewart replaces CHRISTINA MCKELVIE, who has been appointed as Minister for Drugs and...
RADA has appointed DAVID HAREWOOD as its new President and CYNTHIA ERIVO as Vice-President.
Harewood replaces actor and director KENNETH BRANAGH, who has stepped down after nine years.
Both Harewood and Erivo are former students of the conservatoire. They take up their honorary roles with immediate effect.
Known for his TV, theatre and film acting, Harewood received an OBE in...
JONATHAN BURTON has been announced as the new CEO of Cockpit, the London centre for contemporary craft.
He will take up post in late April 2024, replacing ANNIE WARBURTON, who stepped down in December.
Burton was previously Managing Director of London Craft Week and Director of London Art Fair from 2005–2012. He has also worked for Tate and English National Opera as Head of Marketing.
Burton...
14th February 2024
The National Archives has reappointed ROMMEL PEREIRA and SONIA CARGAN as Non-Executive Board members. Both will serve a four-year term.
Cargan's term began in January while Pereira will joing the board on 30 April.
Pereira is a Chartered Accountant and has previously held Board Director and executive roles at the Bank of England, Financial Services Compensation Scheme, Metropolitan Housing Trust, JP...
London-based dance company Shobana Jeyasingh Dance has appointed GHISLAINE GRANGER as Executive Producer.
She joins the company from Sadler's Wells Theatre, where since 2012 she was has been Senior Producer, Producing and Touring.
Most recently she worked on the Sadler's Wells production of Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring.
Granger said she was delighted to be joining the company and praised its...