Four new board members have been appointed to drive forward Culture Central’s vision and mission as the collective voice for the sector in the West Midlands.
RADA has announced that MARCUS RYDER will become the organisation’s new Chair at the end of next month, taking over from SIR STEPHEN WALEY-COHEN who has held the post since 2007.
Artistic Director of Nottingham-based touring company New Perspectives JACK MCNAMARA will move on in July after nine years to become Artistic Director/Joint CEO of Live Theatre.
ROISIN WOOD, previously CEO at football’s anti-racism organisation Kick it Out, is joining Inc Arts as Executive Director, working with Founder and CEO Amanda Parker.
SHRITI VADERA will become the new Chair of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in the autumn, taking over from current Chair NIGEL HUGILL, who steps down after ten years.
MARIANNE LOCATORI, Director of Strategic Projects at Theatre Royal Plymouth, has been announced as the successor to PHILIP BERNAYS, who retires as Chief Executive at Newcastle Theatre Royal in September after 16 y
Palestinian theatre-maker and playwright AMIR NIZAR ZUABI will become Artistic Director of Good Chance, a theatre company that started six years ago as the first ‘Theatre of Hope’ in the Calais Jungle camp where it worked with art
BHUVAN SHARMA is joining Yorkshire Dance as its new Executive Director, taking on responsibility for the administration, finance, personnel, building management and policy at the organisation.
KEITH SKEOCH, a Trustee of Edinburgh International Festival since 2019 and member of its diversity and inclusion board working group, will become Chair of the festival board from June.
Fun Palaces has announced the departure of STELLA DUFFY and SARAH-JANE RAWLINGS (right), the co-founders and co-directors of the organisation they established in 2013.
SUSIE YORK SKINNER will join the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) as Chief Executive on 1 July, replacing NIGEL TULLY who will continue as Chair of the NYJO Board.
