SAM HARDY has taken on a new role as Marketing Officer at marketing agency sobananapenguin. She previously worked for Hull Truck Theatre.
18th May 2018
11th May 2018
Hull Truck Theatre has appointed two new members of staff: ADAM POWNALL joins as Theatre Producer & Programmer from Lincoln Drill Hall, where he has been Artistic Programme and Participation Manager; and OLIVER BROWN becomes Head of Production and Technical. He was previously Technical Manager at the Victoria Theatre, Halifax.
The appointments coincide with Executive Director JANTHI MILLS-WARD beginning maternity leave. Her role will be filled by the theatre’s Director of Communications, RUTH PUCKERING.
BEN MCKNIGHT is the new Director of Press & PR for Manchester International Festival (MIF). He was previously Director of Communications at Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and prior to that was Senior Press Officer in the Mayor’s Press Office at the Greater London Authority.
Head of Development for Wilton’s Music Hall in East London RACHAEL PALMER is leaving the organisation to join Liverpool’s Unity Theatre. She will take on the newly created role of General Manager, leading on strategic management of the theatre with a view to increasing its financial resilience. She has previously worked in development roles at the National Centre for Circus Arts and the Roundhouse Trust.
London dance company Boy Blue has appointed SHAWAB IQBAL as Learning and Participation Producer. In the past he has held roles at Theatre Royal Stratford East and Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and Re:Bourne, and worked in a freelance capacity.
4th May 2018
The new Chief Executive Officer of a-n The Artists Information Company will be JULIE LOMAX, currently Director of Development at Liverpool Biennial. Her previous roles include Director of Visual Arts at Australia Council for the Arts, and Arts Council England. She is currently Chair of The Showroom and on the Executive Committee of the Association of Women in the Arts. She succeeds JEANIE SCOTT who is standing down after four years in the role.
Consultant SARAH OSBORN, who was previously Chief Executive of Music Publishers Association, has joined the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) as Head of Services and Operations. She is also a trustee of the National Music Council, co-founder of Music Network UK, and a founding trustee of Let June Make a Difference, a charity supporting children in Yorkshire.
DAVID SAINT has been appointed ISM President 2018/19. He is an organist and Director of Music at St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, and a former Principal of Birmingham Conservatoire.
The new Artistic Director at the newly refurbished Queen’s Hall Arts Centre in Hexham will be KATY TAYLOR, who is currently Executive Director of The Witham, a community arts centre in Barnard Castle. Following The Witham’s £3m revamp, she became Assistant Manager in 2013, before taking on the leadership role the following year.
Actress MAUREEN BEATTIE will be the new President of Equity, taking over from MALCOLM SINCLAIR in July. She is the union’s second female President and the first since BEATRIX LEHMANN in 1946.
CHRIS RICKETTS will become Showcasing Strategy Director for dance in the UK, as part of the Surf the Wave programme. Currently Programme and Touring Producer for Candoco Dance Company and a partner in Fieldwork, a Cardiff based partnership which supports artists and new initiatives, he will lead the development of a UK dance industry touring and showcasing strategy.