9th October 2023
Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) has named GORDON MILLER as Theatre Director at Edinburgh Playhouse. The appointment marks a return to ATG for Miller, who began his career in the company’s programming team in 2002.
For the past five years, Miller has been Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Unity Theatre in Liverpool. Before this, he undertook roles in programming and producing at the Barbican and Liverpool Everyman and...
BATIA OFER will join the Royal Academy Trust as Chair in December.
She succeeds Lady ALISON MYNERS, who steps down following five years in the post. SALLY TENNANT, appointed a trustee in May, steps up to Vice-Chair, replacing ROB SUSS. ...
4th October 2023
Composer PAUL MEALOR will become Artistic Director of North Wales International Music Festival.
Mealor succeeds mezzo-soprano ANN ATKINSON who is stepping down after 20 years.
A Professor of Composition at the University of Aberdeen, Mealor has served as the festival’s co-Vice-President for a decade.
His music received international attention after featuring at the Duke and Duchess of...
2nd October 2023
Suella Braverman has appointed two new members to the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA).
RCEWA advises the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on whether cultural objects that people wish to export are national treasures so that ministers can take steps, if necessary, to allow UK buyers more time to raise the money to purchase them.
Dr HELEN JACOBSEN...
JACQUELINE ROSE has been appointed Chair at East London Dance. She takes over the role from MOIRA SINCLAIR OBE following a 7-year tenure.
Rose is Senior Manager for Culture and Creative Industries at the Greater London Authority and has had a long association with East London Dance as a former Director of Big Dance and senior dance policymaker at Arts Council England.
“I am a huge long-time fan of...
RHIANNON HARRISON has been announced as the new Chair of Making Music, representing the UK’s leisure music sector.
A freelance trombonist, Harrison splits their time between performing, teaching brass, and conducting the Worsley Concert Band.
They have served on the board for three years as a trustee and a representative of the Worsley Concert Band. Harrison takes over from current Chair DOROTHY WILSON...
The Belgrade Theatre in Coventry has announced new leadership of its board, with Professor JONOTHAN NEELANDS taking up the role of Chair, accompanied by ANNETTE HAY as Vice-Chair.
Neelands is the Academic Director for Cultural Partnerships at the University of Warwick and Professor of Creative Education at Warwick Business School. His career has centred on theatre, creative education and cultural policy,...
28th September 2023
NICHOLAS HYTNER has been appointed to the board of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), taking up the position later today (28 September). He joins the Stratford-upon-Avon theatre three months after DANIEL EVANS and TAMARA HARVEY assumed leadership as co-Artistic Directors.
Hytner is Artistic Director of London Theatre Company, which he founded with NICK STARR in 2017 at...
Jake Smith is the incoming Artistic Director and CEO of Eastern Angles, the touring company that has been blazing a trail across East Anglia for nearly 40 years. Here he pays tribute to the people who gave him opportunities as a young man.
26th September 2023
LORNETTE HARLEY has joined the Soho Theatre Board of Trustees.
Harley previously worked at the theatre as a Press Assistant from 2015-2017.
She joins from MSL UK, where she works on global brand campaigns. Prior to this, she worked at diversity and inclusion consultancy The Unmistakables and at consumer PR agency Talker Tailer Trouble Maker.
Harley said she was “excited to be back in the building” as a board...