14th December 2021
A new board chair, executive director and head of communications and development are joining the National Centre for Writing (NCW).
Norwich City Council Leader ALAN WATERS is replacing current Chair PAM HENDERSON. He is a current board member at NCW and on Arts Council England's South East Area Board.
PEGGY HUGHES will become Executive Director. NCW's current Head of Programmes since...
Northern Stage has three new trustees: Substrakt Director ASH MANN, Gate Theatre CEO SHAWAB IQBAL, and performer and activist RICHARD BOGGIE.
The trio bring "invaluable skills and experience" and help to diversify the board, Chair SIMON ELLIOT said.
Boggie is Development Manager of disability advocacy charity Difference North East, a runner and ukeleleist.
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GILL MANSFIELD, a commercial lawyer, is the new Non-Executive Director of the PRS Members' Council and Board.
The licensing society says her skills in corporate, IP protection and digital law will lend "an independent perspective alongside business expertise".
Mansfield has held senior positions at MTV Networks Europe, SoundCloud, Random House and Moonpig.com, among other household names, over the past 25 years....
Bike Shed Theatre Co-Founder DAVID LOCKWOOD will be Chief Executive of The Arts Development Company from February.
After founding the Exeter theatre, Lockwood joined Trowbridge Town Hall as Director, securing £8.1m for a capital redevelopment and increasing visitorship by up to 900%.
He has also been a Trustee and Vice Chair of Libraries Unlimited in Devon and a Clore Leadership Fellow in 2015.
Lockwood said...
9th December 2021
WILL GOMPERTZ will become The Barbican Centre's Artistic Director as part of a company restructure.
Currently joint Interim Managing Director with SANDEEP DWESAR, the new role will be Gompertz's third since joining as Director of Arts and Learning earlier this year.
Gompertz's move comes...
UK Theatre has announced five new board members.
Talawa Theatre Company Executive Director and Joint CEO CAROLYN ML FORSYTH, Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre Director COLIN MARR, Creu Cymru Director LOUISE MILES-PAYNE and Birds of Paradise Theatre Company Producer MICHELLE ROLFE join as co-opted board members.
SAMIR BHAMRA, Founder and Artistic Director...
ADJOA ANDOH will join Oxford University as a temporary professor in the coming academic year.
She will be the University's 29th Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre, a title attached to St Catherine's College, inaugurated by recently deceased composer STEPHEN SONDHEIM in 1990.
Andoh...
Manchester Jewish Museum's Chief Executive MAX DUNBAR and Chair of Trustees ANDREW SINGER have announced their resignations.
Dunbar will leave at the end of December after 10 years at the museum to take up a position in the University of Manchester's Development Team.
Singer chaired his final trustee meeting in October after 14 years as a trustee and nine as Chair.
The pair led the museum...
ELIZA CARTHY is The English Folk Dance and Song Society's new President.
She is the society's fifth president since it was founded in 1932, succeeding SHIRELY COLLINS, who held the post for 12 years.
Carthy has been Vice-President since 2008 and says she is delighted to accept the new position.
"The English Folk Dance and Song Society continues to be custodian of the people's shared cultural...
Charity The Reader has appointed five new trustees.
NEIL ATKINSON, CEO of multimedia group The Anfield Wrap, Shropshire-based GP HELEN WILLOWS and The Peel Institute CEO OLU ALAKE will oversee The Reader's charitable work.
KELLY SPELLS , Commercial Director of HarperCollins imprints HQ and Mills & Boon, and executive coach PAULINE HUGHES both...