Following the departure of LORD DAVIES OF ABERSOCH, who has served his six-year tenure as Chair of the Royal Academy Development Trust, LADY ALISON MYNERS will take over as the new Chair
Previously Associate Producer for the Oscar Wilde Season at the Vaudeville Theatre in the West End, ROSIE TOWNSHEND is to become Royal & Derngate’s new Senior Producer.
Intergenerational arts charity Magic Me has appointed four new trustees to its board: PHIL CAVE, consultant and former Director at Arts Council England; HAZEL GOULD, librettist, director and facilitator; D
CATH JAMES, most recently Acting Artistic Director and CEO of South East Dance, has been selected as the organisation’s new Artistic Director. The appointment comes as part of an organisational restructure follow
EDDIE NIXON, who has spent time as both Associate Director and Director of Theatre and Artist Development at The Place, will become the organisation’s new Artistic Director.
FRANCESCA HEGYI, formerly Executive Director of Hull 2017 UK City of Culture, will join Edinburgh International Festival as Executive Director in February 2019.
Actor and Director AMEET CHANA is to become Associate Director at Rifco Theatre Company, directing the company’s next studio production in Autumn 2019 and helping the company support emerging British Asian artists.
Live entertainment business Trafalgar Entertainment Group, created by Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire, has appointed ANDREW HILL as Business Affairs Director and TIM MCFARLANE as Executive Chairman of T
CHRIS BRANNICK, who is currently Chair of the Newham Music Trust after periods as both Joint CEO and Interim Senior Director, has been appointed as the new Chair of Sound Connections.
ÁSA RICHARDSDÓTTIR , currently Director of Ice Hot Reykjavík 2018, the biannual Nordic Dance Platform, will take over as Secretary General of IETM, the international network for contemporary performing arts, from next February.
Theatre critic LYN GARDNER, who is also Associate Editor of The Stage, has teamed up with mobile app Stagedoor to provide recommendations for London shows and a series of new longform articles.
After four years as Executive Director at Orange Tree Theatre, which included steering the organisation into a new phase outside of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio, SARAH NICHOLSON has announced that she will step down i
DAVID PEARCE, previously Strategic Director, Operations and Performance at Wales Millennium Centre, joins arts software company Tessitura as Managing Director for Europe.
CARL GROSE, who has worked with Kneehigh as an actor and a writer for the past 24 years – most recently as an Associate Artist – will take up the newly created position of Deputy Artistic Director in November 2018.
After 10 years in post, Sir HOWARD PANTER, co-founder of Ambassador Theatre Group and joint CEO of Trafalgar Entertainment, will step down as Chair of dance company Rambert in 2019.
