16th November 2018
CLARE THORP, who spent a large part of her 20-year career as a journalist and duty editor on the BBC’s flagship Radio 4 Today programme, has been appointed as the National Theatre’s new Director of Press and Communications.
Currently Associate Director at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, GARETH NICHOLLS will become interim Artistic Director at the venue in early December. He takes over from ORLA O’LOUGHLIN, who will take up a new role as Vice Principal and Director of Drama at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Executive Director & Joint CEO of LIFT (the London International Festival of Theatre) for the past nine years, BEKI BATESON has become the new Director of Art Out Loud, Chatsworth’s annual festival of arts-based talks and workshops.
9th November 2018
Chief Executive & Artistic Director of Oldham Coliseum Theatre KEVIN SHAW will leave the organisation this month after 17 years in the role to pursue a freelance directing career. He personally directed over 60 productions for the Coliseum stage, some of which then toured nationally. His departure coincides with news that the Coliseum's relocation to a new £27m venue is in doubt after Oldham Council withdrew support for...
After a decade as Artistic Director and Chief Executive, RUTH BORTHWICK has announced she will step down in April 2019. Borthwick was appointed an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature this summer.
MUNIRA MIRZA, Deputy Mayor for Culture and Education in London from 2008 – 2016, will join King’s College London as Executive Director for Culture in January 2019.
After four and half years and five festivals, ANU GIRI will be stepping down as Executive Director of Dance Umbrella in Spring 2019 to pursue new opportunities.
Brand and communications strategist SUSIE STUBBS, who is Managing Director of Modern Designers, has been appointed Chair of the Castlefield Gallery Board of Trustees.
The Board of NN Contemporary Art has announced that its new Chief Executive Officer and Artistic Director will be EMER GRANT. She is a curator, producer, and researcher who has curated exhibitions at the Art Center South Florida (USA), The Hessel Museum (USA), Void Gallery (Northern Ireland), Pollinaria (Italy), and worked with programmes at Bard College, the University of Minnesota and Queens University...
Cheltenham Festivals has appointed six new trustees: SARAH COOKSLEY; BETH GRIFFIN; BEVERLEY GRIMSTER; SHAMIL MAKHECHA; MARK PHILIP-SORENSEN and DR DEBORAH COGAN THACKER. The current Chair, DOMINIC COLLIER, will step down at the end of the year on completion of his current three-year term, handing over to DIANE SAVORY...