DANIEL KRAMER is to step down as English National Opera’s Artistic Director at the end of July after less than three years in the role in order to focus on directing more opera and theatre full-time.
MARTIN GREEN CBE has been appointed Chief Creative Officer of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and will be responsible for the official opening and closing ceremonies and the wider cultural programme for the Games.
MIKE GRIFFITHS, former interim Chief Executive of Horsecross Arts and interim CEO at Eden Court Theatre, has been appointed as the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company’s new Co-Chief Executive Director.
STEPHANIE OWENS, a former Director of the Cornell Council for the Arts at Cornell University, and Founder and Director of Empathy Academy, an art research platform for the future of art and design, has been appointed as Head of Sc
JANE DICKSON, Education Development Manager at Artswork, and ROBBIE POWELL, learning disabled presenter and occasional stand-up comedian, have joined learning disability-led arts charity Carousel’s Board of Truste
The Incorporated Society of Musicians has announced Welsh baritone JEREMY HUW WILLIAMS as President 2019-20, succeeding outgoing President Professor DAVID SAINT.
As a result of a restructure that combines Artistic Director and Chief Executive roles, Artistic Director SARAH PUNSHON is leaving The Dukes in August to pursue other opportunities.
Currently a freelance director and Artistic Director of Junction 8 Theatre, LIZ STEVENSON will become Theatre by the Lake’s new Artistic Director next month.
MOIRA SINCLAIR, Chief Executive of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and former director at Arts Council England, is succeeding SANDY NAIRNE CBE as the new Chair of Clore Leadership.
EDWARD HICKS will be joining The Oxford School of Drama as its new Principal in August. He has been RADA’s Head of Film, TV and Radio for the past 11 years and was involved in setting up the Warner Bros.
KATIE POSNER, a freelance director who was previously Associate Director for Pilot Theatre, and CHARLOTTE BENNETT, Associate Director at Soho Theatre, where she leads the new writing department, have been appointe
MARK ALLINSON is leaving Thurrock Council’s Thameside Theatre after 34 years with the organisation. Having spent the previous 32 years as Arts Manager, he is looking to ‘do something different’.
