GUS CASELY-HAYFORD has been appointed to lead the new museum, reporting to V&A Director TRISTRAM HUNT. Casely-Hayford, currently Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington D.C, will be responsible for V&A East’s creative strategy and programming. He said: “I feel enormously privileged to be asked to become part of the fantastic V&A team. It has long been the arts...
8th November 2019
FIONA GIBSON, Chief Executive at Liverpool’s Everyman & Playhouse will succeed DUNCAN HENDRY as CEO of Capital Theatres, the trust which runs the King’s and Festival theatres on behalf of City of Edinburgh Council. Previously involved in the capital development programme at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, she will be lead the £25m refurbishment of the King’s Theatre after taking on her new role in April 2020. ...
DAWN AUSTWICK, Chief Executive of The National Lottery Community Fund, has been appointed as Chair of the Board at Kiln Theatre in Brent, London. Previously Deputy Director of the British Museum, Project Director for Tate Modern and a Principal Consultant at KPMG, she will be taking over from interim Chair MOYRA DOYLE, who continues as a Board member.
Composer and guitarist STUART MCCALLUM has been appointed as the new Deputy Head of Popular Music at the Royal Northern College of Music, which was the UK’s first conservatoire to offer a four-year BMus degree. He will start his new position in January next year.
As CLARE O’HARA leaves to become Director of the Cowley Road Trust in Oxford, LIZ HUGHES joins Cambridge Junction as the new Head of Development to lead on fundraising for community and creative learning programmes and plans for developing the building and organisation. Previously at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, where she was Executive Director, Hughes has also worked as a consultant, and was the Creative...
John Ellerman Foundation, the independent endowed funder that will this year make grants of £5.6m for arts, environment and social action activity, has announced SUFINA AHMAD as its new Director, replacing current Director NICOLA POLLOCK, who is stepping down. Ahmad leaves the City of London Corporation, where she is Corporate Strategy Manager. She has previously held grant making roles with City...
NICK THORNE will take on the leadership of Orchestras for All from January 2020 in the role of Executive Director. The organisation provides opportunities for ensemble music-making for 11-18 year-olds with complex lives, and Thorne joins following leadership roles at Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Dorset Music Hub and most recently as Head of Partnerships at the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He takes over from...
Chief theatre critic at the Guardian, MICHAEL BILLINGTON, is stepping down after 48 years with the organisation. At nearly 80 years old he is one of the UK’s longest-serving drama critics. He will continue reviewing until Christmas, after which he will continue to contribute regularly to the Guardian’s UK and international theatre coverage.
ROD PEACOCK, previously Vice Chairman International Investment Banking for J.P. Morgan & Co., and CLAIRE JACKSON, Chief Finance Officer of a group of primary schools on the Wirral, have been appointed to the Board of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society. As part of its Keychange pledge for gender balance in music, the organisation now has a board with a 50/50 gender balance.
1st November 2019
CHRISTOPHER HAYDON, who was Artistic Director at the Gate Theatre from 2012 to 2017, and prior to that Associate Director at the Bush Theatre, will become Artistic Director at Rose Theatre Kingston from the start of next year. As the creative lead, he will be responsible for the Rose’s artistic vision, creative programming and delivery of performance, as well as overseeing the company’s learning and participation programmes....