DOMINIC HADDOCK, currently Director of Development at Spitalfields Music, has been appointed Head of Development and Communications at English Touring Opera. He joins the company next month.
11th January 2019
DAN HOWARD will take over from ROY SHIELDS as Chair of the Board of Governors at Elmhurst Ballet School. Howard’s career has included senior educational roles at Bournemouth Media School, the University of Gloucestershire, Birmingham City University and Nottingham Trent University.
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Elmhurst Ballet School.
HANNA STREETER, a Senior Producer at Paines Plough since 2014, has been appointed as the next Executive Director of the Orange Tree Theatre. She will succeed SARAH NICHOLSON in March 2019, working alongside Artistic Director PAUL MILLER, who was appointed in 2014.
21st December 2018
Currently Interim Director for Theatre at Arts Council England, TAREK ISKANDER will become the new Artistic Director and CEO of Battersea Arts Centre from May 2019. He will take over from DAVID JUBB, who announced he would leave the organisation in the April.
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Slav Kirichok
Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive of Soho Theatre, STEVE MARMION will be leaving after eight years to launch a new company and pursue his freelance career. Beyond Soho Theatre his directing work crosses over new writing, comedy and musicals, and he has written and directed the annual Oxford Playhouse pantomime for the past four years.
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) has appointed ALISTAIR MACKIE as its new Chief Executive. He will take up the role in April 2019. He joins from London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, where he was Interim Managing Director from August 2016 to March 2017. He also served as Philharmonia Chair from 2005 to 2011 and was elected for a third term in January 2016.
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Marina Vidor
Head of Marketing at The Lowry, HENRY FILLOUX-BENNETT has been announced as the new Director & Chief Executive of the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield.
Following a career of almost 39 years in the arts, LORRAINE MCDOWELL is retiring. She has most recently been Director of Operations at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, with overall responsibility for the Arts Council’s grant programmes and grant-making processes.
Deputy Director of The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, MUNGO CAMPBELL has been selected as the Chair of Edinburgh Printmakers ahead of the organisation’s move to the renovated Castle Mills in Fountainbridge.
SIMON WALES, General Manager of Waddesdon Manor, who has been on the Motionhouse board for four years, will replace DOROTHY WILSON MBE as Chair of Motionhouse. Five other board appointments are: AMY DALTON-HARDY, Project & Development Manager at Culture Central; NAVEEN GUPTA, an accountant with over 15 years’ experience in senior finance roles; RAKHI RAJANI, an Innovation Consultant; TOBY SMITH, consultant to Greenwich+Docklands International Festival and Without Walls Consortium; and JOSIE STEVENS, a brand marketing and communications consultant.