5th July 2019
Existing Eden Court Board Member, DON ROBERTSON, has been appointed its new Chair. Also joining the Board of Directors is DUNCAN HENDRY, Chief Executive of Capital Theatres, Edinburgh and HEIDI HALL, Director of the Central School of Ballet in London. Inverness-based Artist LOU BRODIE has been co-opted to the Eden Court Education Committee.
28th June 2019
EMMA POWER, current Head of Strategic Marketing at the National Theatre, is joining Farnham Maltings as its new Deputy Director (Management). Working alongside Director GAVIN STRIDE and Deputy Director (Arts) FIONA BAXTER, Power will lead strategy and communications and manage key partnerships.
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra has announced LENA ZELISZEWSKA and EMILY DAVIS as joint Associate Leaders. Zeliszewska moves from her role as RSNO’s Associate Principal Violin, which she’s held since November 2016. Davis has performed with the orchestra for more than a year.
PATRICK BARRETT is also joining the orchestra as its new Junior Chorus Director. He will continue in his...
Chief Executive Officer of Henley Festival CHARLOTTE GEEVES is joining Bristol Old Vic as its new Executive Director in September. She takes over from EMMA STENNING, who left to become Executive Director of Canada’s Soulpepper Theatre Company last year.
27th June 2019
A nature writer, a conservation group and the Sámi people of Northern Finland have all been among the key influences on the work of Victoria Pratt, Creative Director of the interactive art studio Invisible Flock.
21st June 2019
DAWN WALTON, the founder, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Black-led production company Eclipse Theatre is stepping down after a decade with the company. Under her leadership the company achieved Arts Council England’s NPO status, and this year it launched The Eclipse Award, a £10,000 bursary to help UK Black artists and Black-led theatre companies put on performances at the Edinburgh Fringe.
KAREN O’NEILL, the former Executive Director of the Lawrence Batley Theatre, will lead Lancaster’s The Dukes theatre from August. Prior to her role at LBT, she was part of the senior leadership team at the Palace Theatre and Opera House. She is also a Clore Leadership Fellow, an International Fellow of the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, and a Trustee for the University of Huddersfield...
REBECCA MANSON JONES, founder of participatory theatre company Just Jones &, has been appointed as Spare Tyre’s new Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive Officer. She joins after a nine-month period leading immersive theatre company Oily Cart as Interim Director. She has held senior roles at Exeter Northcott Theatre and The Almeida Theatres, and was the first UK winner of an Ibsen Scholarship for her immersive gender-...
Five new Trustees have been appointed to the British Library board: DELROY BEVERLEY, Executive Director at Nottingham City Homes; JEREMY SILVER, CEO of Digital Catapult and a member of the UK Creative industries Council; WEI YANG, Chairman of Wei Yang & Partners, an urban design and master planning practice in London; LAELA PAKPOUR-TABRIZI, Group Chief Financial Officer of...
DARIUS KHWAJA, Principal and CEO of the London College of Creative Media (LCCM), is joining Wac Arts as its new Chief Executive. As the co-founder of LCCM, a specialist higher education college for music, writing and entrepreneurship, he helped grow the organisation over 16 years. This included the development of the £34m Music Box in Southwark.