18th May 2017
Producer Patrick Collier names the inspiring, perceptive and – occasionally – annoying people who have guided his working life.
16th May 2017
CLARE CONNOR will be the new Chief Executive of The Place. Currently Director of Business Development at Southbank Centre, and previously Director of Stratford Circus Arts Centre, she will take up her new role in September.
SOPHIE WATSON will be leaving the Bush Theatre to become Executive Producer at English Touring Theatre (ETT). She replaces JANE CLAIRE, who will continue to be involved in the talent development programme ETT FORGE.
BENNY HIGGINS, Chief Executive of Tesco Bank and Group Strategy Director for Tesco PLC, is to succeed BEN THOMSON as the new Chair of the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) Board. He is also a Trustee of the Edinburgh International Culture Summit.
ROD HEBDEN has been appointed as interim Director of The Swindon Museum and Art Gallery Trust, following the resignation of HADRIAN ELLORY-VAN DEKKER. Both Hebden and his predecessor have previously worked for the Science Museum.
15th May 2017
ALISON KING, Chief Executive of Turtle Key Arts, has been elected as the new Chair of the Independent Theatre Council. Formerly vice chair of the membership organisation, she has been acting chair since the departure of KATIE KEELER earlier this year.
11th May 2017
Arts Catalyst’s new Executive Director will be CLAUDIA LASTRA, who joined the organisation in 2012 and became Head of Programme in 2016. ANNA SANTOMAURO, independent curator and co-founder and Chief Curator of Vessel in Bari, Italy, joins as Programme Curator.
JOHN NEWBIGIN OBE, who steps down from his role as Chair of Creative England in the autumn, has been announced as the new Chair of specialist creative industries law firm Counterculture Partnership.
NELL LEYSHON, the first female playwright to have her work produced at Shakespeare’s Globe, has been appointed as a Trustee.
4th May 2017
Labour politician MICHAEL DUGHER, who announced his intention to leave politics in April, has been appointed as UK Music’s new Chief Executive. The Former Shadow Culture Secretary will join in mid-May, replacing JO DIPPLE, who leaves after five years in the role.