RACHEL TACKLEY has been appointed to the lead creative role in the leadership team that will be taking Riverside Studios forward following its five-year, £50m refurbishment. She joins following the departure of WILLIAM BURDETT-COUTTS, who has left after 27 years with the organisation. Tackley’s career has seen her working in both the commercial and not-for profit sectors, most recently as a freelance, and also as...
11th August 2020
Three new members of staff have joined Arts Council of Wales’ Arts Funding Services Department. After 6 years leading Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales’s Development Team – RICHARD NICHOLLS will start in September as Director of Operations. IONA LAMY-YANG, currently studying for a master’s degree in developmental cognitive neuroscience, will be joining as Research Officer and Co-ordinator, and SARA...
After 25 years running and shaping Deveron Projects, based in the North East of Scotland in the town of Huntly, founding Director CLAUDIA ZEISKE has decided to step down in December.
Actors Touring Company has announced a new chair and vice-chair of their board of trustees. GERALDINE BRODIE, Associate Professor in Translation Theory and Theatre Translation at University College London, has been appointed Chair and ALAN EVANS, General Counsel and Director General for Legal Services at HM Revenue and Customs, will become vice chair.
ADAM SPREADBURY-MAHER, Artistic Director of the King’s Head Theatre, Islington will leaving in September after ten years with the organisation. The Australian-born former opera singer introduced the first agreement with Equity for actors and stage managers to be paid a legal wage on the Fringe in 2011 and has been a vocal spokesperson for ethical employment. For an interim period his programming role will be overseen by King's...
6th August 2020
ROWAN RUTTER (pictured left) has been appointed as Executive Director of new writing theatre HighTide, having worked for the organisation for the past year as Executive Producer and latterly as a consultant. She was previously Executive Producer at Avant Garde Dance Company, Consultant Executive Producer for Clean Break, and Producer at Hull Truck Theatre during the City of Culture 2017. FRANCESCA CLARK (pictured...
ALISON FRATER has taken on the role of Chair at women’s theatre company Clean Break. Previously Chief Officer at the Brook Advisory Centres; Director of Public Health in Bristol and in North Hampshire; and Head of Public Health in NHS England (London), she is now a visiting professor in the Department of Criminology and Sociology at Royal Holloway and a public health lead researcher on a probation based mental health study at UCL...
Cornwall-based site-specific theatre company Wildworks has announced the appointment of MYRIDDIN PHARO (pictured) as its new Artistic Director, a role that has been vacant since the passing of co-founder BILL MITCHELL three years ago. Pharo is the long-standing production designer and a founding artist of Wildworks, and has worked with the company over the past 15 years. Emma Hogg, Wildworks’ Executive Director,...
Three new board members have become trustees of the Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust, which supports the Everyman & Playhouse theatres. Former Everyman Youth Theatre member NATASHA BUCKNOR (pictured left) is Executive Director at London’s Free Word; Liverpool-born PAUL EVANS (pictured middle) is regional lead for inclusion at Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; and CAMILLA MANKABADY...
30th July 2020
Mansfield Palace Theatre has appointed SIAN BOOTH (pictured) as Cultural Services Manager to oversee the Theatre and Mansfield Museum, as well as the wider cultural offer from Mansfield District Council. Previously at Doncaster’s Cast theatre, where she was Head of Marketing and Communications, she takes over from ANDREW TUCKER who has retired from the theatre which he first joined in 1994.