9th July 2024
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JO TAYLOR, GURJEET SINGH and EVA SCOTT have joined the board of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.
Taylor is the co-founder of Fly a Kite, which aims to help organisations grow and diversify their audiences. She spent four years as Director of Audiences at Rambert and nine years as Director of Morris Hargreaves McIntyre, where she worked on the rebrands of Shakespeare's Globe and...
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DELIA BARKER has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer of Brixton House theatre in London from her existing position there as interim Managing Director.
She has previously been Director of English National Ballet School, Director of Programmes at The Roundhouse, and has served a long tenure as Chair of Studio Wayne McGregor.
Alongside her, RUTH HAWKINS, who is currently the organisation’s interim...
8th July 2024
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SELINA MCGONAGLE has been appointed the new Executive Lead at North Yorkshire arts organisation Craven Arts. She replaces ANN RUTHERFORD, who will retire at the end of July after over three years as Director of the company.
McGonagle works in various freelance roles, including Producer at the University of Leeds, Mentor at South Asian Arts UK, and Independent Advisor at Youth Music.
She spent eight...
3rd July 2024
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SIR RICHARD HEATON has been appointed Chair of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate in Cambridge.
Heaton, who is the Warden of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, succeeds CATHERINE ARNOLD OBE. He will take up the post in October 2024.
Heaton become Warden of Robinson College Warden in October 2021, after a career in the civil service. He was Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of...
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Cambridge Arts Theatre's CEO, DAVE MURPHY, is stepping down from his role after 21 years.
Murphy, who joined Cambridge Arts Theatre in 2003, will be replaced on an interim basis by current Executive Director VICTORIA BEECHEY.
Beechey will share the role of interim Chief Executive with Riverside Studios’ Creative Director RACHEL TACKLEY. Tackley will also act as interim Creative...
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LEE HENDERSON has been appointed Chief Operating Officer at Nottingham Playhouse.
Henderson will take up the newly created role at the end of July, strengthening the venue’s existing executive team of STEPHANIE SIRR, Chief Executive and ADAM PENFORD, Artistic Director, by providing strategic business support and leading the finance, operations, commercial and human resources teams.
...2nd July 2024
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The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has appointed DESPINA TSATSAS to its new role of Executive Producer (London).
Tsatsas, who joins the RSC from ATC Group plc, will take up the post in September.
Working alongside Co-Artistic Directors TAMARA HARVEY and DANIEL EVANS and Executive Director ANDREW LEVESON, she will 'define and deliver' commercial producing...
1st July 2024
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ELIZABETH NEWMAN will step down as Artistic Director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre (PFT) in November to take up an undisclosed leadership role.
Before joining PFT in September 2018, Newman worked at Bolton Octagon for nine years, initially as a trainee director and later as Artistic Director.
She was also Artistic Director and CEO of Shared Property Theatre Company and acting Artistic Director at Southwark Playhouse...
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SEAN KELLY and LYNNE BEST have been reappointed to the board of Arts Council Northern Ireland (ACNI) by Communities Minister GORDON LYONS.
Kelly and Best have both served for four years and their tenure has now been extended until June 2028.
Managing Partner of corporate and financial PR firm Fourth Pillar, Best was previously Head of Communications for the music licensing company...
27th June 2024
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Former Culture Secretary JAMES PURNELL is to step down from his role as President and Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London later this year. He is moving on to become Chief Executive at Flint Global, a consultancy offering policy and regulatory advice.
The university said Purnell, who was appointed in October 2020, will continue in post until his interim successor Professor KAREN STANTON is in...