3rd March 2016
JOHN-JACKSON ALMOND is leaving Park Theatre, London, where he is Executive Director, to join the Assembly Hall Theatre, Royal Tunbridge Wells.
The new Managing Director at The Ulster Orchestra is RICHARD WIGLEY. Recently a consultant for the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, he was previously at the Hallé Orchestra and spent ten years as General Manager of the BBC Philharmonic.
DR BRUCE BOUCHER, currently Director of the Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, has been appointed Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum.
RUTH WEYMAN has joined Theatre Alibi as Executive Producer. She will lead the company alongside Artistic Director Nikki Sved and Administrative & Finance Director Mary Attewell.
A former director at Northern Ballet and Northern School of Contemporary Dance, SELINA MCGONAGLE has been appointed as the new Director of the Geraldine Connor Foundation. She replaces AMY BERE who left last year to become General Manager (Arts) at Dartington in Devon.
ERIC GAUTRON has been appointed Technical Director of Glyndebourne. Currently Technical Director of The Metropolitan Opera in New York, his previous experience includes four years with multidisciplinary production company Ex Machina, under the artistic direction of Robert Lepage.
London Mozart Players has completed a management restructure. NICK MALLETT takes over from Rowan Freeland as Chairman of the LMP Trust; Co-Principal cello JULIA DESBRUSLAIS becomes Executive Director; SEAN ROURKE takes the role of Sponsorship & Development Manager; and JENNY BRADY leads Creative Learning & Participation.
From engineering to managing cream teas at the National Trust and now fundraising for Cheltenham Festivals, Rod Hebden tells us about his career so far.
25th February 2016
ALI ROBERTSON, Director of Tobacco Factory Theatres since 2007, will become Kneehigh Theatre’s new Executive Producer in June. He will replace PAUL CREWES, who is joining the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts as its first Artistic Director.
Following the departure of MARTIN HALLIDAY last summer, LEE HENDERSON will join the Marina Theatre, Lowestoft as Chief Executive.