Head of Creative Direction & Innovation at Historic Royal Palaces DEBORAH SHAW has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury. She was previously Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
22nd June 2018
MELANIE PRECIOUS, who spent two years as Creative Producer for Luca Silvestrini’s Protein, has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Greenwich Dance. She will take up the role in September.
HANNAH PHILLIPS has been appointed to the newly-formed role of Director of Transformation at Worcester Arts Workshop. She joins after a career that has included roles as Director of Artrix Arts Centre in Bromsgrove; Artistic Director of Outspoken; and Deputy Director of Birmingham School of Acting where she ran a community arts degree.
KRISHNA THIAGARAJAN will take up a new appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Seattle Symphony in America, leaving his role as Chief Executive of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in September.
Consumer Sales and Marketing Director for The Ticket Factory CHRIS PILE has been promoted to the role of Commercial Director. The organisation has also appointed NICK FENTON as its first Commercial Manager and ALIYA HUSSAIN as Partnerships Manager.
Following a year as Chief Executive of grant-making charity Hanfod Cymru, and more than a decade at the BBC, SIÔN BRYNACH has become Head of Communication for the Arts Council of Wales.
15th June 2018
Less than two years after taking up a post as Executive Director of Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, MARK DOBSON has announced he will be stepping down to “pursue other interests”. He was previously Chief Executive of Tyneside Cinema.
CAROLE WINTER, who set up and ran the education departments for both the National Theatre and the English Shakespeare Company, has been appointed the first ever in-house producer at Tunbridge Wells’ Assembly Hall Theatre.
Currently General Manager and Head of Operations at Summerhall in Edinburgh, SAM GOUGH will join Glasgow’s Tron Theatre as Executive Director in September. He replaces LESLEY RENTON.
MIRELLA BARTRIP, Trinity Laban’s Director of Dance, is retiring at the end of the year after 36 years with the London conservatoire.