14th September 2020
Keighley-based artist and producer SHANAZ GULZAR will be the new Chair of Bradford 2025 as the city prepares to bid for UK City of Culture title. A nationally established artist, she is also a producer at Manchester International Festival and has worked extensively in Yorkshire, including for Bite the Mango Film Festival, Illuminate, Bradford City Parks, Impressions Gallery, Moti Roti, Yorkshire Film Archive, in a co-practice as...
JAMIE NJOKU-GOODWIN, one of the Government’s most senior advisers, will succeed MICHAEL DUGHER as UK Music CEO. He will take over from TOM KIEHL, Acting CEO, who will continue as Deputy CEO and Director of Public Affairs. A keen musician, Njoku-Goodwin most recently worked as a special adviser to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock and was previously a special adviser at DCMS. Before joining the...
Anthem, the fund for young people’s music in Wales, has appointed RHIAN HUTCHINGS as its first permanent Chief Executive. Her background in community and participatory music and music education includes roles as Creative Director for community opera company Operasonic, Director of Youth & Community for Welsh National Opera and partnership manager for ArtWorks Cymru. She is currently Chair of RESEO – the Opera, Music and Dance...
YUSUF KHAMISA has been appointed as Outreach and Development Liaison at Iris Theatre. An actor whose teaching and development work covers varied stages of artists training, he was previously the Head of Foundation Acting and BA Senior Acting Tutor at ArtsEd and has worked with the Lyric Hammersmith as part of their Young People’s Programme.
Diversity champion SIMEILIA HODGE-DALLAWAY (left), founder of Artistic Directors of the Future, has been appointed as Curatorial Consultant at Manchester International Festival to advise on artists, companies and curatorial approaches for the Festival and The Factory. Writer and programmer HANNAH AZIEB POOL (middle) and musician and broadcaster CERYS MATTHEWS (right) have taken roles as Artistic...
LAURA COLLIER will be Creative Director & Programmer for the Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot, Merseyside, which is due to open to the public in 2022. She previously worked as Head of Studio at the National Theatre, Senior Producer at Battersea Arts Centre, Associate Producer at the Traverse Theatre, and as an Executive Producer and Consultant she has supported Shakespeare’s Globe and the Leeds Playhouse. She has held...
Bird College Conservatoire for Dance and Musical Theatre has announced new board appointments, with consultant and writer SONIA WATSON-FOWLER becoming a trustee of the Doreen Bird Foundation, and TOSH WANOGHO-MAUD and KAMEL CHAHAL joining the board as Non-Executive Directors.
9th September 2020
Director KENNETH OLUMUYIWA THARP (pictured) and Head of Development JESS MORTLOCK have lost their jobs at the Africa Centre following a restructure of the management hierarchy. Their roles have been made redundant to reduce costs “in order to preserve long-term financial stability and safeguard its important legacy”, though the charity is committed to completing its ongoing capital development project, which will...
The new CEO at youth arts charity Artswork is LOUISE GOVIER, who joined during lockdown and will take over from JANE BRYANT when she stands down at the end of September after 10 years leading the organisation. Govier was previously at the National Trust where she led a portfolio of properties in South West Hampshire, including Mottisfont Abbey and countryside across the New Forest. Her earlier career included...
IRENE DORNER (pictured), named the ‘Most Powerful Woman in Banking’ in 2012 by American Banker and in 2013 ‘one of the 25 Most Powerful Women On Wall Street’ by Business Insider, has been named as the new Chairperson of the Board of Directors for Hampstead Theatre. Also Chair of Taylor Wimpey and global risk consultancy Control Risks, she also sits on the Boards of AXA, Rolls Royce, South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership...