12th October 2018
After a long relationship with Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), first as a Development Producer and then as Artistic Director and CEO, DAVID JUBB has announced he will “head off on a new adventure as a parent of young children” from April 2019.
Artistic Associate SHELLEY HASTINGS and Associate Artistic Director SARAH GOLDING will also be leaving next year, in February and March respectively...
After 20 years as Artistic Director, SIMON STOKES is leaving the Theatre Royal Plymouth, to explore new opportunities and artistic challenges. During his time at Plymouth, the theatre has won more than 20 major national theatre awards and proved that “the ‘remote’ and slightly forgotten far south west can also be a huge engine for national creativity.”
PROFESSOR KATE OAKLEY, expert in cultural policy, cultural and creative industries, and regional development, has taken up a new post as Head of School of Culture and Creative Arts. She joins from the University from the University of Leeds and succeeds Professor DIMITRIS ELEFTHERIOTIS, University of Glasgow’s Professor of Film Studies.
One Dance UK has appointed LAURA NICHOLSON as Head of Children and Young People’s Dance, to lead on the strategic planning and delivery of programmes with and for children, young people and teachers. She has worked extensively in the north of England in youth and community settings as a performer, workshop leader and community artist, and in the education sector.
LESLIE MCDONALD has taken on the role of interim Chair at New Art Exchange, the Nottingham-based centre dedicated to culturally diverse arts. He has been a Board member there since 2009.
MANON ANTONIAZZI, Chief Executive and Clerk of the Welsh National Assembly, has joined the Board at The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Previously Director of Culture, Sport and Tourism for the Welsh Government, and Chief Executive of Visit Wales, she has been a Non-Executive Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a Board member of the Heritage Lottery Fund and a...
DR SHIRLEY THOMPSON has been announced as the new Vice Principal (Music) at Birmingham City University’s Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, which she joined in 2001 and was appointed to the role of Director of Postgraduate Studies in 2009.
5th October 2018
SIR VERNON ELLIS, who is President of English National Opera, Chair of the National Opera Studio, the Britten-Pears Foundation and the Leeds International Piano Competition, and trustee of the Royal Philharmonic Society and London Music Masters, has been elected as chair of Live Music Now. He succeeds IAN STOUTZKER, who has been elected Founder President.
JONATHAN MCGRATH has joined street arts development agency XTRAX as a Project Manager. A director, producer and lecturer who has presented theatre events across the world, he has spent the last two years working for Arts Council England in grant management and as a Relationship Manager in Combined Arts.
Executive Director of Chichester Festival Theatre, RACHEL TACKLEY has announced that she will be leaving at the end of the Festival season. She joined in 2016 and after working with Artistic Director DANIEL EVANS for two years, has agreed with him that their “differing leadership styles are not the right combination for the Theatre at this point.” Prior to joining she was President of UK Theatre, Chief Executive...