25th January 2019
JACKIE SHEARER and JULIE TAIT have been appointed as joint Artistic/Executive Directors, to work with the communities of Bute to bring the refurbished Rothesay Pavilion back to life. Shearer is a specialist in infrastructure projects, having worked with Platform/The Bridge in Easterhouse, The Tolbooth in Stirling and Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock. Tait was most recently Chief Executive of audience insight agency...
The former Head of Music at Thomas Keble School, Stroud, has been appointed as Participation Manager at Three Choirs Festival. LUCY WILCOX will establish a new programme of education and participation at the festival.
DEREK ALDRIDGE is moving from Swindon’s Wyvern Theatre and Arts Centre to become the new venue Director at G Live, Guildford, after nine years with the venue. He previously held positions with the Everyman Theatre in Gloucestershire and the historic Town Hall in Cheltenham.
Scottish Contemporary Art Network has appointed CLARE HARRIS as Director. She comes from a background in publishing and communications and previously worked for CCA, Trongate 103, and Glasgow International.
18th January 2019
CARLOS ACOSTA CBE, award-winning former Principal of the Royal Ballet, has been appointed as Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new Director. He will replace current Director DAVID BINTLEY CBE in January 2020.
The Board of Chichester Festival Theatre has appointed KATHY BOURNE as Executive Director. She returns to the Theatre where she was Associate and Festival Producer between 2006 and 2015, when she left to become business manager for Jonathan Church Productions.
LINDSEY PUGH is leaving her role as Executive Creative Producer for Creative Barking and Dagenham, one of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programmes, to become Director of Programmes at Wac Arts.
Following the departure of Senior Producer LOUISA DAVIS at the end of February, MICHELLE BARNETTE will take over as Producer at the King's Head Theatre. Her most recent production, SPARKS, won Best Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Marketing agency Joe Public Limited has announced the appointment of LISA POPHAM, formerly Chief Operating Officer at Dewynters, as Managing Partner, and CON GORNELL, previously Executive Vice President, Marketing at Warner Bros. Pictures, as Chair of the Board.
The new Head of Press and External Affairs for London Symphony Orchestra, CHRISTOPHER MILLARD, took up his position last week, moving from his role in Communications and Marketing at the Royal College of Art. He was previously at the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, the National Theatre and RSC.