REBECCA MORLAND has been appointed as Executive Director of Achates Philanthropy. She has most recently been working as a freelancer on a variety of projects, and prior to that was Theatres Adviser and Interim Director of the Theatres Trust.
1st February 2019
Dame SUE STREET is replacing Sir HOWARD PANTER as Chair of dance company Rambert, following the announcement in October that he would be standing down. She has governed major public, private, and not for profit organisations, including her role as Permanent Secretary for the Department for Culture, Media...
After guiding the Bristol arts house through a transition period, CLAIRE DOHERTY is leaving her role as Director, having completed her 18-month contract. LHOSA DALY, Assistant Director of Operations at The National Trust in Wales, will chair a new Board of Trustees as the company enters the next...
North Yorkshire arts organisation, Rural Arts, has appointed MAX MAY as its new Director, replacing Founder and Director Angela Hall with immediate effect. He is returning to the organisation where he interned in 2014, leaving London-based performing arts charity Access All Areas.
PAULA ORRELL is joining Visual Arts South West from Arts Council England where, over the past 18 months, she has supported artists and arts organisations across the South West. She will take up the role of Network Manager in April.
Choreographer and designer THEO CLINKARD has been appointed as the Talent Hub’s lead artist. He is an Associate Artist at Brighton Dome & Festival and Dance4, and recently received an Honorary Fellowship from Plymouth University.
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance has announced that FRANCES CLARKE will be the new Dean of Dance. Also Chair of the Publications Committee for the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, she will take up her new position in mid-April, replacing SARA MATTHEWS, who becomes...
Artistic Director and CEO ARTI PRASHAR is leaving Spare Tyre after 19 years with the theatre company. She joined as Associate Director in 2000 and became Artistic Director in 2006, since when she has led a range of artistic projects including their flagship touring show ‘The Garden’, an immersive show tailored for people living with dementia.
25th January 2019
JACKIE SHEARER and JULIE TAIT have been appointed as joint Artistic/Executive Directors, to work with the communities of Bute to bring the refurbished Rothesay Pavilion back to life. Shearer is a specialist in infrastructure projects, having worked with Platform/The Bridge in Easterhouse, The Tolbooth in Stirling and Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock. Tait was most recently Chief Executive of audience insight agency...
The former Head of Music at Thomas Keble School, Stroud, has been appointed as Participation Manager at Three Choirs Festival. LUCY WILCOX will establish a new programme of education and participation at the festival.