After 36 years at Shakespeare’s Globe, Director and Founder of Globe Education PATRICK SPOTTISWOODE is stepping down. He will continue in an honorary role as Founder Director of Globe Education and as a Senior Research Fellow.
HEDLEY SWAIN (pictured), Arts Council England’s Area Director South East, is the first Chief Executive Officer for the new Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust as the organisation leaves Brighton & Hove City Council.
The Spark Arts for Children have announced TRINA HALDAR (pictured left) and DARYL BEETON (pictured right) as their new Associate Directors to contribute to the artistic leadership of the organisation’s work in Lei
Live music venue Wiltshire Music Centre (WMC) in Bradford on Avon will be run for an interim period by Artistic Director and Deputy Chief Executive JAMES SLATER.
NICK PASRICHA (pictured above), a chartered accountant who was a partner at Ernst & Young for 27 years, has joined the Board of Trustees at Chichester Festival Theatre (CFT).
Director and Producer DANNY BOYLE and writer FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE, the creative team behind the London Olympics opening ceremony, have signed up as Special Advisors to The Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot.
CHARLOTTE LUND has joined Iris Theatre as Executive Director. She will work alongside Artistic Director Paul-Ryan Carberry at the company, which is the resident theatre of the Actors’ Church in Covent Garden.
CAROLYN ML FORSYTH (pictured left) is joining Talawa Theatre Company as Executive Director to work alongside Artistic Director and CEO, Michael Buffong.
JANE IDE, CEO of NAVCA, the national membership body for voluntary and community sector support and development organisations, has been appointed as CEO of Creative & Cultural Skills, and will join in November.
Five new recruits have joined the team bidding for Bradford to become UK City of Culture for 2025. Journalist SI CUNNINGHAM (pictured second from right), a Director of Bradford Business Improvement District and member of Bradford
SHERRY DOBBIN has been appointed to chair the Urban Land Institute, the UK’s Urban Art Forum that advocates for creative placemaking, bringing together the cultural and creative industries with the property sector.
HELEN SPROTT, previously Managing Director of the Philharmonia Orchestra and Director, Music, at Arts Council England, will take on the Executive Director role at the charity NMC Recordings for a year.
