3rd August 2018
Curious Directive has announced STEPHEN CROCKER as its new Chair. He is currently Chief Executive of Norwich Theatre Royal, and his other roles include Vice Chair of the Albert Kennedy Trust and South East Area Council Member for Arts Council England.
Actress SUZANN MCLEAN is to take over as Artistic Director of Theatre Peckham next month. McLean is founder and current director of the award winning theatre school Young and Talented, now in its 14th year. She was selected as a Torchbearer for the 2012 Olympics for her work in the community.
ELIZABETH PARTYKA, DAVID STRACHAN and EWAN ANGUS have been announced as new Members of the Board of Creative Scotland. Partyka has had an extensive broadcasting career working with commercial radio, BBC Scotland, Granada TV, Buena Vista and most recently STV. Strachan has previously served a term on the board of Scottish Screen. Angus worked as commissioning editor for television at BBC Scotland...
The Association for Cultural Enterprises’ new role of Director of Digital will be filled by ROBIN CANTRILL-FENWICK. He joins the Association from Colchester's Mercury Theatre, where he was Deputy Executive Director.
27th July 2018
CHARLES SAUMAREZ SMITH, Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts and former Director of the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, is stepping down after 11 years to join Blain|Southern as Senior Director of the gallery. Founded in 2010, the gallery occupies two gallery spaces in London and Berlin where it presents an artist-led exhibition programme featuring new work by contemporary artists as well as significant...
Currently Deputy Director of the Black Cultural Archives, and previously Chief Executive of the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham, DOREEN FOSTER has been announced as the next Director of Warwick Arts Centre. She will start in the role from September.
Baroness LOLA YOUNG, a writer and broadcaster and formerly Head of Culture at the Greater London Authority, will join Sir DAVID BELL, a non-executive director of The Economist, as Co-Chairs of the Foundation for Future London. The organisation was set up shape the development of the capital’s...
MOYA MAXWELL has been appointed as Executive Director of Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and will take up the post in September. She joins the company from RIBA where she was Head of Venues, leading and developing the organisation’s venue and events teams.
Formerly Head of Brighton Festival, JANE MCMORROW has started her new role as Director of Brighton-based arts charity Creative Future. She left the festival in 2009, taking on freelance work with organisations including Arts Council England, Clean Break Theatre Company and The Creative Foundation, and was a Specialist Advisor for the Culture Department at the London Mayors office.
A group of 19 large-scale theatres across the UK has announced the appointment of AMY DOLAN as its new Tour Coordinator. Previously Company Manager & International Tour Producer with Scottish Ballet, DOLAN will succeed HEATHER KNIGHT, Dance Consortium’s Coordinator since its inception.