7th September 2018
STEPHEN FREEMAN will join Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre as the new Executive Director in January next year. Previously Chief Executive at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, he has also worked for Arts Council England as Relationship Manager for Theatre in the North West.
The new General Director at Welsh National Opera will be AIDAN LANG, who will take on the role in July next year. Currently General Director of Seattle Opera, and prior to that General Director of New Zealand Opera, he began his career at the Glyndebourne Festival, before joining Welsh National Opera as a Staff Director.
The Jerwood Charitable Foundation has appointed NATHALIE TEITLER as Project Manager of Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowships. Director of The Complete Works, the national development programme that helps to raise the profile of Black and Asian poets, she takes over from JOY FRANCIS. HARRIET COOPER joins as Head of Programme for Jerwood Visual Arts and maternity cover for SARAH WILLIAMS. She is...
KATHERINE WATSON, Director of the European Cultural Foundation, will retire at the end of this year, after twelve years of service. Her role will be taken on by ANDRÉ WILKENS, who worked previously at the Open Society Institute and Stiftung Mercator.
31st August 2018
After nine years as Chief Executive of Bristol Old Vic, EMMA STENNING is stepping down to become Executive Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company in Toronto. She will leave in November.
IRENE KERNAN, currently Director of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, will join Craft Scotland as its new Director next month.
Former Executive Director of the National Theatre and co-founder of The Bridge Theatre, NICK STARR, has become Chair of the board at The Yard Theatre.
24th August 2018
EDWARD HALL will be stepping down as Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive of Hampstead Theatre in the spring of 2019 after 10 years at the helm. The theatre credits him with “reviving the theatre and making it a first choice destination for so many theatre-goers”.
HOME’s Artistic Director, WALTER MEIERJOHANN, who played a central role in the development of the overall artistic policy for the organisation ahead of the building’s opening in May 2015, has announced he will be leaving HOME in the autumn to pursue other projects nationally and internationally.
KATY GRIFFITHS, former Director of the Corn Exchange Newbury, and DEBORAH SAWYERR, former Executive Director for Theatre Royal Stratford East, will jointly take on the role of Deputy Executive Director at the Mercury Theatre from the Autumn. The two will divide the responsibilities of the role.