3rd December 2015
From a receptionist in Glasgow to Communications Manager at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, Paula Rabbitt tells us about her career.
26th November 2015
They raise the money organisations need to make great art, but who are they really? And what drives them to do what they do? Amanda Rigali meets three Arts Fundraising Fellows to find out.
FIONA GASPER is to leave the Royal Exchange Theatre after five and a half years to join Manchester International Festival as Executive Director. She will split her time between the two organisations from mid-February, before joining MIF full time at the end of March, replacing JIM FORRESTER, who steps down after six years in post.
Currently Executive Director of Free Word, ELEANOR LANG will take up the role of Executive Director at Cheek by Jowl from January 2016. She succeeds BETH BYRNE, who will join the Southbank Centre as Executive Producer in December.
MARGARET HODGE MP, who has formerly been Culture Minister and Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, has been appointed Chair of Theatre Royal Stratford East.
TONY CHARLES, the Director of Platform A Gallery in Middlesbrough, will join Cleveland College of Art and Design in Hartlepool as a fine art lecturer. NIK HOLMES and FRANCES MOFFATT also join the college as illustration lecturers.
The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) has appointed ten new members to its board, including PAT CONNOR, Head of Development & Events at BBC North, and Professor JANET BEER, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool.
19th November 2015
REBECCA ATKINSON-LORD and RACHEL BRISCOE are to leave their roles as Co-Directors of Theatre at Ovalhouse to focus on their respective theatre companies, Arch 468 and fanSHEN.
SEBASTIAN F SCHWARZ, currently Deputy Artistic Director of Theater an der Wien in Vienna, is to join Glyndebourne as its new General Director from May 2016.
DOMINIC JEWEL is to leave his role as Chief Executive of the Three Choirs Festival in December, to be replaced by ALEXIS PATERSON, currently Manager of Cheltenham Festivals.