After nine years as Chief Executive of Bristol Old Vic, EMMA STENNING is stepping down to become Executive Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company in Toronto. She will leave in November.
EDWARD HALL will be stepping down as Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive of Hampstead Theatre in the spring of 2019 after 10 years at the helm.
HOME’s Artistic Director, WALTER MEIERJOHANN, who played a central role in the development of the overall artistic policy for the organisation ahead of the building’s opening in May 2015, has announced he will be leaving HOME in t
KATY GRIFFITHS, former Director of the Corn Exchange Newbury, and DEBORAH SAWYERR, former Executive Director for Theatre Royal Stratford East, will jointly take on the role of Deputy Executive Director at the Merc
Events Manager at the Royal Shakespeare Company since 2015, and previously Producer at Midlands Arts Centre, LOUISA DAVIES has been appointed as The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s first Head of Creative Programme.
Theatre director CRAIG SANDERS, whose work has been performed at the Lichfield Garrick, HOME and Buxton Opera House, has been appointed Manager of Trinity Arts Centre in Gainsborough.
FutureEverything has appointed IRINI PAPADIMITRIOU, currently Digital Programmes Manager at the V&A and Head of New Media Arts for Watermans, as its new Creative Director.
After five years in post, JUDITH KILVINGTON is to step down as Executive Director and joint Chief Executive of the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow at the end of the year.
STEPHEN LANGRIDGE, Director for Opera and Drama at Gothenburg Opera in Sweden for the past five years, has been appointed Artistic Director of Glyndebourne.
PETER LEATHEM, CEO at PPL, the licencing body for recorded music, has been named as the new chairman at specialist healthcare charity the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM).
BENGI UNSAL, Senior Contemporary Music Programmer at Southbank Centre, and musician ELLIE ROWSELL from alternative rock band Wolf Alice, have joined the Board at Music Venue Trust.
FEI, the UK based international cultural consultancy, has announced that GRAHAM SHEFFIELD, until recently global Director Arts at the British Council, will join the agency as an Associate Director to undertake consulting projects.
Consultant and producer LOUISE COLES is to become interim Executive Director (part time) at Spare Tyre. Her experience includes working as Executive Director at The Blue Room Theatre and as Chief Executive of The Actors Centre.
The British Council has made three new appointments to the senior Arts Leadership team. GREGORY NASH has taken up the role of Creative Director and CAROLINE MEABY becomes Director, Arts Network.
