ADRIAN VINKEN is standing down as CEO of Theatre Royal Plymouth, which he has led since 1990. Prior to this he had a ten-year career in Sheffield, during which he founded and directed the Leadmill music venue.
Recruitment for his successor has begun and a new Chief Executive will lead the theatre from 2022.
The theatre has survived the Covid-19 closure and will reopen in May, having received a funding award from the...
Comics creator, cartoonist, writer, campaigner and author HANNAH BERRY (pictured right) has been appointed as a Trustee for the Cartoon Museum. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is the third UK Comics Laureate.
HOLLY BURROWS joins the organistion as Commercial Manager. She previously ran the retail operation at the House of Illustration, and has also worked at the Roald Dahl...
DAVINA MALLINCKRODT will be the new Chair of the Board of Trustees at Cockpit Arts.
Founder and CEO of marketing and PR agency Cultural Agenda, she holds a number of non-executive and trustee roles, including The Design Museum, the London School of Architecture and The Pitt River’s Museum in Oxford.
She succeeds CORNELIUS MEDVEI, who has held the post for the past nine years.
GERRY CORNELIUS, Principal Guest Conductor of English National Ballet, is the new Music Director at English Touring Opera. His career has included conducting many of the country’s leading orchestras, opera and ballet companies, including English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, and London Philharmonic Orchestra.
He will work closely with English Touring Opera’s Director, JAMES CONWAY.
JENNY WHITE has joined the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation as Chief Executive. In her new role she will be supporting contemporary art and culture, science, humanities and social issues between the UK and Japan.
White is also 'Greening the Arts' Project Manager for international contemporary art, festivals, and creative economy programmes at Art + Environment, and Visiting Fellow for International Arts Projects at the...
EMMA PIRIE (pictured right) has been appointed to the new role of Head of Marketing and Development for Dance Base Scotland.
Pirie has over 15 years’ experience working in arts and cultural events. Between 2009 and 2020, she worked at Edinburgh Science, the charity that delivers the Edinburgh Science Festival, as Head of Marketing and Communications. She has also worked in marketing and communications roles at Edinburgh’s...
The Theatre Royal Bath’s Marketing Manager, ANNA O’CALLAGHAN, is retiring on 16 April after completing more than 38 years of full-time service.
She joined the theatre’s marketing department as a secretary in September 1982, but by the early 1990s had become head of the marketing department. Throughout her career she led her team to market thousands of shows across the Theatre Royal’s three venues – the Main House, Ustinov...
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) has appointed ELENA DUBINETS as Artistic Director, starting in September 2021. Her appointment follows the departure of CRISTINA ROCCA, who joined the LPO in the autumn last year but is leaving for personal reasons.
Dubinets will be leaving the US, where she is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington. Prior to this she was Chief Artistic Officer...
Turner Contemporary has appointed five new trustees to its board. STEPHEN DEUCHAR, former Director of Art Fund; LUCY EDEMATIE, former Editor of the Margate Mercury; PETER HAWKES, Senior Partner at Furley Page LLP; YASMIN KHAN, Senior BBC Journalist; and KEITH VALENTINE, Director of the Royal National Institute of Blind People.
The new appointments form part...
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales has announced NIA ELIAS as its new Director of Business Development. She will be responsible for managing and providing strategic direction across Amgueddfa Cymru for fundraising, commercial activity, corporate and business sponsorship, business development and income generation.
Elias has worked for Blood Cancer UK, Wales Millennium Centre, Tate Gallery, Somerset House Trust and...