24th August 2018
KATY GRIFFITHS, former Director of the Corn Exchange Newbury, and DEBORAH SAWYERR, former Executive Director for Theatre Royal Stratford East, will jointly take on the role of Deputy Executive Director at the Mercury Theatre from the Autumn. The two will divide the responsibilities of the role.
Events Manager at the Royal Shakespeare Company since 2015, and previously Producer at Midlands Arts Centre, LOUISA DAVIES has been appointed as The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s first Head of Creative Programme.
Currently a freelance Casting Director, ANNA COOPER will become the new Casting Director at Donmar Warehouse from September. She will work alongside newly appointed Artistic Director MICHAEL LONGHURST for his first season in 2019.
PETER BARKER, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, has been appointed as Plymouth College of Art’s new Head of School, Design + Communication. He joins from Design School Kolding, where he was Head of Industrial & Communication Design.
17th August 2018
FutureEverything has appointed IRINI PAPADIMITRIOU, currently Digital Programmes Manager at the V&A and Head of New Media Arts for Watermans, as its new Creative Director. She will leave both posts to make the move to Manchester in October.
Theatre director CRAIG SANDERS, whose work has been performed at the Lichfield Garrick, HOME and Buxton Opera House, has been appointed Manager of Trinity Arts Centre in Gainsborough.
After five years in post, JUDITH KILVINGTON is to step down as Executive Director and joint Chief Executive of the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow at the end of the year.
10th August 2018
STEPHEN LANGRIDGE, Director for Opera and Drama at Gothenburg Opera in Sweden for the past five years, has been appointed Artistic Director of Glyndebourne. He will start his new role in spring 2019, working alongside Sarah Hopwood, Managing Director, as co-leader of the organisation.
NAOMI MILLER will be Deputy Director of Bristol Cultural Development Partnership from November. She has spent the past four and a half years fundraising at Bristol Cathedral, which has become one of the five most visited free visitor attractions in the south west.
9th August 2018
PETER LEATHEM, CEO at PPL, the licencing body for recorded music, has been named as the new chairman at specialist healthcare charity the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM). He takes over from RICHARD PRICE, who retired in July after 12 years.