Head of Creative Direction & Innovation at Historic Royal Palaces DEBORAH SHAW has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury.
MELANIE PRECIOUS, who spent two years as Creative Producer for Luca Silvestrini’s Protein, has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Greenwich Dance. She will take up the role in September.
KRISHNA THIAGARAJAN will take up a new appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Seattle Symphony in America, leaving his role as Chief Executive of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in September.
Less than two years after taking up a post as Executive Director of Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, MARK DOBSON has announced he will be stepping down to “pursue other interests”.
CAROLE WINTER, who set up and ran the education departments for both the National Theatre and the English Shakespeare Company, has been appointed the first ever in-house producer at Tunbridge Wells’ Assembly Hall Theatre.
Currently General Manager and Head of Operations at Summerhall in Edinburgh, SAM GOUGH will join Glasgow’s Tron Theatre as Executive Director in September. He replaces LESLEY RENTON.
Digital producer JON PRATTY, formerly Relationship Manager for Digital and the Creative Economy at Arts Council England, has been appointed as the new Chair for the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive.
Most recently Executive Director of Candoco Dance Company, and previously Executive Director of Protein Dance, JO TOWLER has been appointed as the new Executive Director of Sheffield-based promoter Music in the Round.
IAN ABBOTT, an independent writer and producer who has worked with 2Faced Dance in a freelance capacity for the past year, has been appointed as the Hereford-based organisation’s Executive Director.
After two and a half years as Head of Press at the National Theatre, VICKY KINGTON has accepted a new role as Head of Communications at the Royal Opera House.
The former Artistic Director of the Royal Northern College of Music, MICHELLE CASTELLETTI has taken up the role of Festival Director for Oxford Festival of the Arts.
The new Chair of North Edinburgh Arts is LESLEY HINDS, who is currently Chair of Edinburgh Community Solar Co-operative and a board member of One City Trust.
JOANNA BAKER will step down as Managing Director of Edinburgh International Festival at the end of the year. She joined the organisation in 1992 as Marketing and Public Affairs Director and became Managing Director in 2006.
