9th April 2024
TARA WILKINSON has been appointed Executive Director of Tall Stories theatre company.
Together with co-founder and Artistic Director TOBY MITCHELL and Marking Director CLARE LEWIS, Wilkinson will lead and shape the future of the family theatre storytelling company
Wilkinson joins Tall Stories from the Almeida Theatre where she has been a producer since 2019. She brings 16 years'...
ANDREW COMBEN has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Britten Pears Arts succeeding ROGER WRIGHT CBE, who will stand down in July after 10 years at the helm.
Comben, who takes up the role in September 2024, joins Britten Pears Arts from Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival where he has been Chief Executive since 2008.
Originally from Australia, he has worked in the arts in the UK since 1993...
8th April 2024
SEAMUS McGIBBON is to become Co-Chief Executive of Making Music, a charity representing the UK’s leisure-time music sector.
He will lead the organisation alongside existing Chief Executive BARBARA EIFLER, who has held the post for the last ten years.
Previously CEO of the Association of Photographers, McGibbon has also worked at the Creators’ Rights Alliance, The Culture Trust Luton, UK Theatre,...
Seven trustees will join the Wallace Collection board following their appointment by the Prime Minister.
MARCUS AGIUS, ALEXANDRA SHULMAN and DAVINDER TOOR each began four-year terms on 22 January 2024, while SPENCER DE GREY, JOSEPHINE FITZALAN-HOWARD, LARRY KEITH and JAKYUNG MOON LAMBERT commenced five-year terms on the same date.
Agius worked as a banker at Lazard LLC and Barclays...
4th April 2024
Watershed in Bristol has appointed STEPHEN GATFIELD as its new Chair following the departure of JAMES TOUZEL, who steps down from the board after 11 years.
Gatfield is Global Chairman of brand design studio Elmwood Design and Founding Director of Believe Entertainment. He has been a member of Watershed’s board since 2014, leading its artful Innovation programme and mentoring start-ups in...
Theatre company Told by an Idiot has announced JENNIFER HOLTON as Executive Director following the departure of JENNI GRAINGER.
Having initially joined the organisation as Assistant Producer in 2015, Holton will now work alongside Artistic Director PAUL HUNTER as Joint Co-Chief Executive.
"To be entrusted with working alongside Paul to guide Told by an Idiot’s future as Executive...
3rd April 2024
The Director of London’s Vagina Museum, FLORENCE SCHECHTER, will be stepping down in May.
She will be replaced in the short term by the museum's Head of Communications and Fundraising, ZOE WILLIAMS, who will act as Interim Director for a six-month period.
An author and public speaker, Schechter founded the museum in 2017 initially as a series of pop-up events. It opened its first fixed premises in...
2nd April 2024
MOIRA SINCLAIR OBE is to stand down as Chief Executive of Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF) in February 2025 after ten years leading the organisation.
Over the last decade, Sinclair has led the foundation through challenging times for the whole voluntary sector, doubling the amount of its grant giving.
Sinclair is Chair of Clore Leadership and of the London Mayor’s Cultural Strategy Board. She was awarded an OBE in 2020...
CLARISSA WIDYA and KIM PEARCE are stepping down as co-Artistic Directors of Papergang Theatre after leading the British East and South East Asian-focused (BESEA) company for the last decade.
Widya was a founding member of the theatre company, established in 2013. During her tenure, she also worked as a theatre producer at Applecart Arts and is the Manager of the London Theatre Consortium.
Joining...
28th March 2024
NICHOLAS CULLINAN has been named as the new Director of the British Museum.
Cullinan has led the National Portrait Gallery since April 2015. Before that, he worked as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Tate Modern in London.
Nicholas will begin his new role in the summer, taking over from Interim Director MARK JONES, who was appointed last September amid the museum’s ongoing...