16th November 2018
Director and writer LYNETTE LINTON has been appointed as Bush Theatre’s new Artistic Director. She was previously Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse and Associate Director at the Gate Theatre from 2016 to 2017, where she set up the Young Associate company.
Ahead of a move to a new role as joint Chief Executive of Citizens Theatre in spring 2019, ALEX MCGOWAN is to leave his position as joint Chief Executive at The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. He has spent eight years in the role.
SARA MOHR-PIETSCH, music broadcaster, curator and writer, has been appointed Artistic Director of the Dartington International Summer School and Festival. She takes over from JOANNA MACGREGOR, whose festival in 2019 will be her fifth and final outing.
CLAIRE SOMERVILLE re-joined Babylon ARTS (ADEC) in August 2018 as Executive Director, having previously delivered projects for the organisation between 2004 and 2006. Most recently she was Head of Children and Young People's Dance at One Dance UK.
CLARE THORP, who spent a large part of her 20-year career as a journalist and duty editor on the BBC’s flagship Radio 4 Today programme, has been appointed as the National Theatre’s new Director of Press and Communications.
Currently Associate Director at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, GARETH NICHOLLS will become interim Artistic Director at the venue in early December. He takes over from ORLA O’LOUGHLIN, who will take up a new role as Vice Principal and Director of Drama at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Executive Director & Joint CEO of LIFT (the London International Festival of Theatre) for the past nine years, BEKI BATESON has become the new Director of Art Out Loud, Chatsworth’s annual festival of arts-based talks and workshops.
9th November 2018
Chief Executive & Artistic Director of Oldham Coliseum Theatre KEVIN SHAW will leave the organisation this month after 17 years in the role to pursue a freelance directing career. He personally directed over 60 productions for the Coliseum stage, some of which then toured nationally. His departure coincides with news that the Coliseum's relocation to a new £27m venue is in doubt after Oldham Council withdrew support for...
After a decade as Artistic Director and Chief Executive, RUTH BORTHWICK has announced she will step down in April 2019. Borthwick was appointed an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature this summer.
MUNIRA MIRZA, Deputy Mayor for Culture and Education in London from 2008 – 2016, will join King’s College London as Executive Director for Culture in January 2019.