21st May 2021
The Royal Northern College of Music has announced RHIANNON MCKAY-SMITH as its new Director of Development from September.
Most recently, she has been co-Director of Development at The Lowry in Salford after working as Head of Development at London's Young Vic theatre. Her fundraising career began at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew.
She replaces SUZIE THOMPSON, who leaves the College later this month...
RISHI COUPLAND will join the BFI in July as Head of Research and Insight. A Clore Fellow, he is currently Head of Data Intelligence at the National Theatre, where he leads the National Theatre Data Studio.
His other previous roles include Head of Audience Strategy for the National Theatre and Marketing Services Manager at the Southbank Centre. He has also worked as a mechanical engineer with companies such as British...
Literary agent ANGELIQUE TRAN VAN SANG has joined the board of The Writing Squad, a development programme for young writers in the north of England.
Currently at Oxford-based Felicity Bryan Associates, she was previously Commissioning Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing, working across fiction and non-fiction. Her appointment will strengthen ties between the Squad and the publishing industry.
Mountview Drama School's joint Chief Executives – Principal & Artistic Director STEPHEN JAMESON and Executive Director SARAH PREECE – will step down in December 2021 after eight years.
During their tenure the organisation moved into a new £30m purpose-built home in Peckham, south London, delivering theatre training at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as programmes for local...
20th May 2021
DAVID ROSS is stepping down as Chair of the Royal Opera House with immediate effect. He was appointed to the board in July 2020 and took the chair role on September 1.
Honorary Vice-President SIR SIMON ROBEY will act as Chair on an interim basis while the organisation searches for a successor. He has a long history with the ROH, joining the board in 2006 and chairing the organisation until 2016.
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SOFIA STEPHANOU will become Executive Director and Co-CEO at Arch 468, taking on more responsibility for producing and organisational strategy. Formerly Producer at Paines Plough, she joined Arch 468 as its Executive Producer last year.
Founder, Artistic Director and CEO REBECCA ATKINSON-LORD takes up a new position as Artistic Director and Chief Executive at An Tobar & Mull Theatre. She will continue...
VICKI AMEDUME and SUD BASU have both been appointed Associate Director at The Albany to shape its programme for London Borough of Culture, due to take place in Lewisham in 2022.
Amedume is an artist working across circus, theatre and outdoor arts. She is Artistic Director and CEO of Upswing, a leading contemporary circus company.
Basu is an independent creative director and consultant. He was...
Manchester International Festival (MIF) has announced a new Venue Director and four new board members. SHEENA WRIGLEY, a former Director of Manchester's Palace Theatre & Opera House, Chief Executive of West Yorkshire Playhouse and Executive Director of HOME, is joining the festival in September.
Former footballer GARY NEVILLE, entrepreneur GRACE LADOJA, visual artist IBRAHIM...
Production designer SIMON BERESFORD is joining project management company Counterculture Partnership as its Creative Director. He has 30 years’ experience in designing and creating live events and has worked as production designer for Channel 4 and the BBC, where he designed the broadcaster's studio set for covering the 2012 Olympics.
The Southbank Centre has announced MISAN HARRIMAN as its new Chair after an extensive search for "a visionary leader with a deep passion for the potential of multi-arts programming".
He is the Founder of media content and commerce company What We Seee, as well as an accomplished artist, photographer and social commentator.
Harriman succeeds the centre's first female chair, SUSAN GILCHRIST, who ends...