LAURIE SANSOM will succeed CONRAD NELSON as Artistic Director and CEO of Northern Broadsides in June. He joins the company after leading National Theatre of Scotland and Royal & Derngate, Northampton.
AXEL RÜGER, Director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, will take up the position of Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts in June.
NEIL PEPLOW will be the new Director of International Affairs at the BFI, responsible for growing commercial and cultural opportunities for the UK screen industries internationally.
Streetwise Opera has announced that composer HANNAH CONWAY will replace founder and Artistic Director MATT PEACOCK, who is leaving to lead One Voice, in April.
SUZANNE BULL MBE, Founder and CEO of Attitude is Everything, and ROSIE WOLFENDEN MBE, Managing Director of jewellery label Tatty Devine, have been appointed to the Board of Directors at Creative United.
Bristol-based theatre producing company MAYK have announced ANNA STARKEY, Chief Creative Officer of We The Curious, as their new Chair, alongside five new board members.
NATHALIE BOOBIS joined contemporary art festival Deptford X last month from SPACE, London, where she worked as Assistant Exhibitions Curator and Artist Commissions Manager.
The former Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Chairman of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, LUKE SYSON, has taken on the role of Director and Marlay Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
DAVID EYRE has been appointed as Gaelic Arts Officer at Creative Scotland, and KIRSTY MACDONALD has joined the organisation as Traditional Arts Officer.
Three independent directors are joining the Board at Dance Consortium: ROSIE KAY, Artistic Director at Rosie Kay Dance Company; SEBASTIAN CHESWRIGHT CATER, Marketing Communications Consultant; and ANDREW H
