25th January 2013
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NEIL THOMSON is stepping down as Chief Executive and General Manager of the The Grand Theatre, Blackpool. Now 60, he has been involved in the theatre since he was 21.
JOHN PINDER has joined Akademi as Education and Community Officer. He has previously worked in education and participatory arts as a producer, director and project manager.
21st January 2013
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MIRANDA BERTRAM is joining Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, as its Executive Director. She is returning to work in theatre after nine years as a Commercial Director at the BBC.
Eastbourne’s Towner Art Gallery has appointed EMMA MORRIS as its Executive Director. She has been the been Director of Photoworks in Brighton since 2010.
17th January 2013
The new Executive Producer of National Theatre Wales will be LISA MAGUIRE. She joins from physical theatre company Frantic Assembly, where she has been Executive Producer for seven years.
Mind the Gap has appointed a new Marketing Officer, VICTORIA MOORE and a new Theatre Worker, HELEN THOMPSON.
SELMA DIMITRIJEVIC has been appointed to the new post of Assistant Dramaturg at the Bush Theatre. She is currently Co-Artistic Director of Greyscale Theatre Company and a lecturer at the Centre for Performance at Central Saint Martins.
11th January 2013
The Royal Northern College of Music has appointed PROFESSOR LINDA MERRICK as its Principal. She joined the RNCM in 2001 as Director of Performance Studies and Senior Tutor in Clarinet, becoming its Vice Principal in 2006.
KATHY DYSON has been voted as the Musicians’ Union’s first female Executive Committee Chair. She is a jazz guitarist who has sat on the Committee for 10 years.