19th May 2016
SIR HOWARD PANTER, Joint CEO and Creative Director, and ROSEMARY SQUIRE OBE, Joint CEO, are to take on different positions within the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG). PANTER is to continue as Executive Producer on some existing and future ATG projects, while SQUIRE is to become Deputy Chairman of the ATG Group. Both will continue as directors and shareholders of the company. They will also acquire the Trafalgar...
LISA SPIRLING, currently Artistic Coordinator of the JMK Trust’s Regional Directors Program and previously Programming Director at Theatre503, is to become Theatre503’s new Artistic Director from August 2016. She is to replace PAUL ROBINSON, who leaves to become Artistic Director of The Stephen Joseph Theatre...
The former Development Manager at Square Chapel Centre for the Arts, DAVID MCQUILLAN, has been promoted to Director of the organisation.
bbodance, formerly known as the British Ballet Organization, has appointed BalletBoyz’s MICHAEL NUNN OBE, WILLIAM TREVITT OBE and KERRY WHELAN as its new Co-Artistic Director Consultants.
Creative industries specialist TOM FLEMING has joined Site Gallery as Chair. He takes over from ANGELA GALVIN, Chair from 2010 to 2015 and former CEO of Sheffield Theatres.
JOHN BLOOMFIELD, currently an editor at Black Dog Publishing and a freelance curator, is to join Wysing Arts Centre as its new Assistant Curator.
Actress and writer ALI BRIGGS has been appointed as Agent for Change at Sheffield Theatres, a role designed to help the theatres put deaf and disabled artists at the heart of their work.
12th May 2016
MIKE TWEDDLE is to become Artistic Director of Tobacco Factory Theatres from July 2016, joining the company’s new Executive Director LAUREN SCHOLEY. They will replace the outgoing Director, ALI ROBERTSON, who will begin a new role as Executive Producer at Kneehigh in June.
NICK OWEN MBE is to leave Art Gene in July to become CEO of The Mighty Creatives, the Children and Young Peoples Cultural Education Development Agency for the East Midlands.
Currently Senior Press Officer at the Mayor’s Press Office, BEN MCKNIGHT is joining Hull 2017 UK City of Culture as Director of Communications.