8th January 2024
NATALIE MELTON has been made permanent Executive Director at Crafts Council.
She joined Crafts Council in 2019 as Creative Director before assuming the interim position of Executive Director in 2022 following the departure of the organisation's Chair and Chief Executive.
Melton's appointment comes after Crafts Council made a series of...
The Chief Executive and Chair of Bristol Beacon are both stepping down.
Current Chief Executive LOUISE MITCHELL will depart in July 2024 after 12 years in post.
Mitchell has been at the helm of the historic concert venue since Bristol City Council established Bristol Music Trust to run it in 2011.
With over four decades in the arts, Mitchell has experience at London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Barbican...
4th January 2024
MATT TODD has become Royal Albert Hall's (RAH) Director of Programming.
Todd held the role in 2023 on an interim basis and now takes on the permanent position with immediate effect.
His role oversees all performances on the main stage, including RAH's engagement work, tours programme, and the production and technical team.
Previously, Todd was Education & Community Director at London Philharmonic Orchestra...
Executive Director of Morecambe's More Music, KATHRYN MACDONALD, will step down after 27 years with the organisation.
MacDonald was More Music’s first employee and was appointed Executive Director in 2020. During her time with the music and education charity, she initiated the Catch the Wind Kite Festival, which she continued to produce for two decades.
More Music said MacDonald has been an "integral part" of the...
3rd January 2024
Artistic Director (AD) and CEO of The Royal Ballet School, CHRISTOPHER POWNEY, will step down following a decade at the helm.
He will leave the company in July, at the end of his second five-year term.
After qualifying as a teacher with Royal Ballet's Professional Dancers Teachers’ Course and then teaching at the school in 2000, Powney joined the Dutch National Ballet Academy as AD and founded the Amsterdam...
2nd January 2024
Manchester-based arts charity Something To Aim For (STAF) has announced changes in leadership.
Executive Director of STAF JANET TAM will become Joint Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) while the organisation's Founder, Creative Director and CEO TRACY GENTLES gears up to join SICK! Productions as its...
FIONA BUTCHER is the new Chair at English Folk Dance and Song Society.
Butcher is General Counsel and Company Secretary of educational charity Trinity College London.
Before this, she worked in fields of EU and competition law, regulation and compliance, including as the Legal Director of Ofwat.
She is a trustee of Royal Museums Greenwich.
"I am honoured and delighted to be appointed as the new Chair...
21st December 2023
ANNA MOUTREY and SEAN PRITCHARD will join the Royal Exchange Theatre under a restructured senior leadership team after the producing theatre recently dropped its artistic director model.
Moutrey has been named Director of Producing, while Pritchard will assume the role of Director of...
Manchester-based arts organisation SICK! Productions, also known as SICK! Festival has announced that founder and current Artistic Director (AD) and Chief Executive HELEN MEDLAND will step down after 24 years at the organisation's helm.
Medland will be succeeded by TRACY GENTLES, current founder, Creative Director and Chief Executive of Something to Aim For.
SICK! Productions has recently appointed...
20th December 2023
Three new trustees are joining Chichester Festival Theatre's Board.
Among them is PADDY DILLON, Director of Renew Culture.
In 2020, Dillon co-founded Green Book, an initiative to promote sustainable practices among theatre workers. He has since co-established an international network of Theatre Green Books.
Also an architect, Dillon was responsible for the regeneration of the National Theatre and chaired the...