The British Council has made three new appointments to the senior Arts Leadership team. GREGORY NASH has taken up the role of Creative Director and CAROLINE MEABY becomes Director, Arts Network. Together with STEVE STENNING as Head of Arts and Society, they will form the new senior arts leadership team, led by Kate Arthurs as Director, Arts. Stenning moves from his role as Director, Culture and Development. Nash was Director Arts for the British Council in its Wider Europe region, followed by Meaby as interim Director.
3rd August 2018
RICARDO DE LACERDA FERREIRA will become the new General Manager of Outside Edge Theatre Company, the UK’s only theatre company focused on addiction. An experienced human rights lawyer and arts manager, he has worked extensively with the United Nations, most recently as Knowledge Manager for the United Nations’ International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth in Brazil. While working in the Democratic Republic of Congo he led a participatory theatre project with former child soldiers and women victims of gender-based violence using Forum Theatre.
CHARLOTTE BENCE returns to Equity as low pay/no pay organiser. Bence is a former student scheme coordinator for the union, and returns to Equity having recently worked at Unite, overseeing workers in the hospitality sector.
Curious Directive has announced STEPHEN CROCKER as its new Chair. He is currently Chief Executive of Norwich Theatre Royal, and his other roles include Vice Chair of the Albert Kennedy Trust and South East Area Council Member for Arts Council England.
Actress SUZANN MCLEAN is to take over as Artistic Director of Theatre Peckham next month. McLean is founder and current director of the award winning theatre school Young and Talented, now in its 14th year. She was selected as a Torchbearer for the 2012 Olympics for her work in the community.
ELIZABETH PARTYKA, DAVID STRACHAN and EWAN ANGUS have been announced as new Members of the Board of Creative Scotland. Partyka has had an extensive broadcasting career working with commercial radio, BBC Scotland, Granada TV, Buena Vista and most recently STV. Strachan has previously served a term on the board of Scottish Screen. Angus worked as commissioning editor for television at BBC Scotland, as well as serving as chair of BAFTA Scotland.
The Association for Cultural Enterprises’ new role of Director of Digital will be filled by ROBIN CATRILL-FENWICK. He joins the Association from Colchester's Mercury Theatre, where he was Deputy Executive Director.
27th July 2018
CHARLES SAUMAREZ SMITH, Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts and former Director of the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, is stepping down after 11 years to join Blain|Southern as Senior Director of the gallery. Founded in 2010, the gallery occupies two gallery spaces in London and Berlin where it presents an artist-led exhibition programme featuring new work by contemporary artists as well as significant 20th Century artists and art historical movements.
Currently Deputy Director of the Black Cultural Archives, and previously Chief Executive of the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham, DOREEN FOSTER has been announced as the next Director of Warwick Arts Centre. She will start in the role from September.
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Warwick Arts Centre
Baroness LOLA YOUNG, a writer and broadcaster and formerly Head of Culture at the Greater London Authority, will join Sir DAVID BELL, a non-executive director of The Economist, as Co-Chairs of the Foundation for Future London. The organisation was set up shape the development of the capital’s £1.1bn ‘East Bank’ cultural quarter.