MARK ALLINSON is leaving Thurrock Council’s Thameside Theatre after 34 years with the organisation. Having spent the previous 32 years as Arts Manager, he is looking to ‘do something different’.
29th March 2019
Currently Director of Communications at Glyndebourne, where he has been leading the organisation’s broadcast and online streaming work, GEORGE BRUELL has been appointed as Director of Creative Partnerships at classical music management company HarrisonParrott.
National Theatre Director RUFUS NORRIS and Executive Director LISA BURGER have new job titles reflecting their work together leading the organisation.
IAN BONE, formerly Head of Production at Culture Creative, has become Company Director and GARY CAMPBELL, previously at English Heritage and Northumberland County Council, and Museum Manager at Locomotion in County Durham, has joined as Head of Operations and Development.
22nd March 2019
KATHARINE STOUT is succeeding JOE HILL as Director of Focal Point Gallery. She joins from the Institute of Contemporary Arts, where she has been Deputy Director for the past two years and Head of Programme for four years prior to that. Hill has been appointed Director of Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne,
Birmingham Repertory Theatre has announced Olivier Award-winning Actor, Writer and Director SEAN FOLEY as its new Artistic Director. The theatre also announced that AMIT SHARMA, former Associate Artistic Director at the Royal Exchange, and Associate Director at Graeae Theatre Company, will become Deputy Artistic Director. RACHAEL THOMAS, Executive Director of Derby Theatre, will also join as...
JOE MURPHY, currently Associate Director at The Old Vic, and previously Associate Director at Soho Theatre, will become the new Artistic Director of Sherman Theatre in July. He will work alongside Executive Director JULIA BARRY and takes over from RACHEL O’RIORDAN.
PENNY MACBETH, Dean of Manchester School of Art and founding member of the Culture Forum North, and FRAN BURGESS, Placemaking and Destination Marketing Consultant and member of the Placemaking Leadership Council, have joined Castlefield Gallery’s Board of Trustees.
STEVE BALL is taking over from Culture Central’s first Director GARY TOPP, who is joining the Arnolfini in Bristol next month as they...
After three years as the company’s Artistic Director, MIKAH SMILLIE is leaving National Youth Ballet this month. National Youth Ballet alumni DREW MCONIE and RUTH BRILL will oversee the 2019 Season on an interim basis.