1st October 2015
Leaving her role as Chief Executive and Executive Producer with Scottish Ballet, DR CINDY SUGHRUE OBE is to join the Charles Dickens Museum as its new Director.
PAUL CREWES, Kneehigh’s Chief Executive and Executive Producer, is to become the new Artistic Director at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles next spring.
The participatory dance organisation, People Dancing, has appointed its first ever Marketing and Communications Manager, JEREMY WATERFIELD, formerly of East Midlands Arts.
Chief Executive of the Three Choirs Festival Association DOMINIC JEWEL is to become Managing Director of the National Children’s Orchestra from early 2016.
After 14 years at the helm, having worked to widen audiences by streaming online and into cinemas, DAVID PICKARD is set to leave his role as General Director of Glyndebourne.
CHRIS LAWSON has joined Oldham Coliseum as the new Associate Director, having recently directed a performance of Oedipus at the Almeida, London.
Czech conductor TOMAS HANUS is to become Music Director at Welsh National Opera from autumn 2016, following a career of conducting symphonies internationally. CARLO RIZZI, who was Music Director of WNO from 1992 to 2001 and again from 2004 to 2008, has taken up the new role of Conductor Laureate with immediate effect.
24th September 2015
AMANDA SKOOG, who has been Managing Director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet since 2006, joins Shobana Jeyasingh Dance as Executive Director.
London Festival of Theatre’s MARK BALL is to work alongside SIMON MELLOR at Arts Council England in a part-time, temporary capacity as the Executive Director, Arts and Culture, following Mellor’s appointment as Project Director of Manchester’s Factory.
ArtsWork Alliance, the new participatory arts network representing 24,000 artists, is to be led by the Cardiff-based specialist in participatory arts MELANEIA WARWICK.