ROBERT ASHCROFT will leave collection society PRS for Music in December 2019, ten years after joining. PRS introduced a new live music tariff under his watch.
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MATTHEW XIA, previously Associate Artistic Director at the Royal Exchange Theatre from 2014-17, and soon to direct performances at Hampstead Theatre, The Orange Tree and Nottingham Playhouse, has been appointed Artistic Director of Actors Touring Company (ATC). He will take up the position part-time in December 2018 and will be in place full -time from March 2019, leading alongside ATC’s Executive Director ANDREW SMAJE...
Professor TOM INNS has stepped down as Director of Glasgow School of Art after five years in charge, which spanned two major fires at the Mackintosh building. In his place, the school has appointed Professor IRENE MCARA-MCWILLIAM, who had been acting as joint interim Director alongside Professor KEN NEIL, after Inns left last month.
JOHN FISHER, who has been the Hodge International Chair in Opera at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, has been appointed as the first Artistic Director of the college’s David Seligman Opera School.
After ten years in Cambridge, most recently as Business Development Director for Cambridge Live and previously as Arts and Events Manager for Cambridge City Council, ELAINE MIDGLEY has been appointed Director of Bedford Creative Arts.
EFA GRUFFUDD JONES, Chief Executive of the National Centre for Learning Welsh since 2016, will become Chair of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru’s board from December.
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art has announced the appointment of IRENE ARISTIZÁBAL in the new role of Head of Curatorial and Public Practice. She will take up the position in March 2019, leading the curatorial team and working with BALTIC’s Director SARAH MUNRO on both local and international projects.
MARTIN THOMAS, formerly at Arts Council England, has been appointed Executive Director at Torbay Culture Board, with responsibility for delivering the town’s ten-year Cultural Strategy and Great Place Scheme programme. He takes over from Kate Farmery, who leaves this month to take up a new role at The Box in Plymouth.
DEBBIE HANNAN has been appointed Associate Director of The Bunker Theatre. She will present a new monthly podcast – The Underground Podcast – exploring what needs to change in the theatre industry.
MICHAEL BRAZIER, Director of the National Student Drama Festival since 2012, has left the organisation to pursue new opportunities. Director and Writer James Phillips will be Guest Director for the 2019 festival.