31st August 2018
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.
Events Manager at the Royal Shakespeare Company since 2015, and previously Producer at Midlands Arts Centre, LOUISA DAVIES has been appointed as The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s first Head of Creative Programme.
Currently a freelance Casting Director, ANNA COOPER will become the new Casting Director at Donmar Warehouse from September. She will work alongside newly appointed Artistic Director MICHAEL LONGHURST for his first season in 2019.
PETER BARKER, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, has been appointed as Plymouth College of Art’s new Head of School, Design + Communication. He joins from Design School Kolding, where he was Head of Industrial & Communication Design.
17th August 2018
Theatre director CRAIG SANDERS, whose work has been performed at the Lichfield Garrick, HOME and Buxton Opera House, has been appointed Manager of Trinity Arts Centre in Gainsborough.
FutureEverything has appointed IRINI PAPADIMITRIOU, currently Digital Programmes Manager at the V&A and Head of New Media Arts for Watermans, as its new Creative Director. She will leave both posts to make the move to Manchester in October.
After five years in post, JUDITH KILVINGTON is to step down as Executive Director and joint Chief Executive of the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow at the end of the year.