9th May 2021
The new Chief Executive Officer at Shoreditch Town Hall will be BETH BYRNE. Until recently she was Executive Producer at Southbank Centre, where she led their producing and event management teams, and latterly their Touring and Performance, Comedy and Dance programmes. She will join the Town Hall next month, ...
After 20 years at The Lightbox in Woking, Director MARILYN SCOTT will stand down in November 2021.
A former member of the National Lottery Heritage Fund committee, she will move into full-time consultancy in the arts and heritage sector. She will retain her roles as Vice Chairman of The Association of Independent Museums and a Trustee of Brooklands Museum and The Weald and Downland Museum.
During her time with The...
Four new board members have been appointed to drive forward Culture Central’s vision and mission as the collective voice for the sector in the West Midlands.
The new members are GERALDINE COLLINGE from the Royal Shakespeare Company; INDI DEOL director of web magazine DESIblitz; independent practitioner and Beatfreeks programme producer SIPHO NDLOVU; and IAN MANBORDE,...
6th May 2021
RADA has announced that MARCUS RYDER will become the organisation’s new Chair at the end of next month, taking over from SIR STEPHEN WALEY-COHEN who has held the post since 2007.
Ryder is Head of External Consultancies at the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity set up to increase diversity across the media. Also a Trustee at the Press Pad Charitable Foundation, he spent eight years as a...
Curator, writer and editor MARIAMA ATTAH is joining Castlefield Gallery’s board of Directors and Trustees. She is Curator at Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery and has worked in arts development nationally and internationally over the past 15 years.
Before joining Open Eye Gallery, she worked at Foam Magazine (Amsterdam), Photoworks (Brighton), Iniva (London), Compton Verney (Warwickshire), and Arts Council England.
4th May 2021
Artistic Director of Nottingham-based touring company New Perspectives JACK MCNAMARA will move on in July after nine years to become Artistic Director/Joint CEO of Live Theatre. He will join the Newcastle-based new writing theatre later in the summer, sharing the CEO role with Executive Director JACQUI KELL.
The new leadership duo succeeds former CEO JIM BEIRNE, who stood down at the end of...
ROISIN WOOD, previously CEO at football’s anti-racism organisation Kick it Out, is joining Inc Arts as Executive Director, working with Founder and CEO Amanda Parker. Also joining are new Communications Manager JUSTIN TAM, previously at Sydney Opera House, and creative entrepreneur RAPHAEL DAPAAH, who becomes Head of Campaigns. His previous roles include Stakeholder Manager at DCMS.
Twelve...
IQBAL KHAN has joined Madeleine Kludje as an Associate Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre as it prepares for its 50th anniversary season.
Acclaimed for productions at the RSC, the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe and other London and regional theatres, he will direct the 25th anniversary production of East is East, which premiered on the Rep’s stage in 1996.
29th April 2021
SHRITI VADERA will become the new Chair of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in the autumn, taking over from current Chair NIGEL HUGILL, who steps down after ten years.
With over 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors, Vadera served as a Minister in the Cabinet Office and in the International Development and Business Departments.
A member of the House of Lords, Baroness Vadera has...
MARIANNE LOCATORI, Director of Strategic Projects at Theatre Royal Plymouth, has been announced as the successor to PHILIP BERNAYS, who retires as Chief Executive at Newcastle Theatre Royal in September after 16 years in the role.
Locatori joined Theatre Royal Plymouth in 2003 after spending several years at Ambassador Theatre Group.
Earlier this year she was appointed as Director of the Dance...