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.
After eight years at the Octagon Theatre Bolton, and three years as Artistic Director, ELIZABETH NEWMAN will move on to a new role as Artistic Director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre in September.
Outside Edge Theatre Company, billed as the UK’s only theatre company focused on addiction, has appointed actor and director MATT STEINBERG as its new Artistic Director and CEO.
After more than six years at ArtsProfessional, most recently as Editor, FRANCES RICHENS will be leaving the organisation in July. She joins Manchester-based theatre company Quarantine as Communications and Development Manager.
ANTHONY BRIGGS, who joined Ludus Dance in 2012 as a Dance Development Artist, has been appointed as the organisation’s new Artistic Director & Chief Executive as it joins Arts Council England’s National Portfolio.
Arts Council England’s TOM HOLLEY, a Relationship Manager in the national funder’s Visual Arts team, has been appointed Chief Executive of the Association for Cultural Advancement through Visual Art (ACAVA).
JEFFERSON HACK, CEO and Co-founder of Dazed Media, which owns titles including AnOther Magazine and Another Man, has joined the board of the Creative Industries Federation.
