POPPY KEELING will step down as Director of Complicité’s Creative Learning Programme to take up a new role as Executive Producer of Emma Rice’s new theatre company Wise Children in the new year. She will be joined by JUDITH DIMANT, also currently at Complicité, who will become Executive Director in Spring 2018.
16th November 2017
Formerly Producer at Almeida Theatre, and Relationship Manager for Theatre at Arts Council England, LILLI GEISSENDORFER will become Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation from January 2018. She replaces SHONAGH MANSON, who will take on the new role of Assistant Director for Culture and Creative Industries...
Pitlochry Festival Theatre's Artistic Director, JOHN DURNIN, will step down in December after 15 years in post. He said: “I have decided that this is the right time to leave as it gives me the time and space to work out my next career move.”
ANNA DOYLE will lead plans to develop next year’s Reading-on-Thames Festival. She has previously developed programmes for organisations including the V&A museum and the British Council.
Festival Director FERGUS LINEHAN has had his contract extended at Edinburgh International Festival and will stay with the organisation until 2022.
JILL ADAMSON has been selected as Director of Participation at Newcastle’s Northern Stage, having previously worked as a freelance theatre participation and learning consultant and Director of Education at York Theatre Royal.
HANNAH RUDMAN has joined BOP Consulting as Associate Director. She will lead the consultancy’s new ‘organisational transformation practice’.
DR STEPHANIE HAWKE, formerly Education Coordinator and Creative Learning Programme Manager with Mid Pennine Arts, has become Chair of the Board. She replaces councillor ANDY MACNAE, who has held the role for the past six years.
After 26 years with ISIS Arts, SHARON BAILEY will leave her role as a Director and board member at the end of the month. She will stay connected to the organisation as an Associate Producer.
9th November 2017
Chief Executive of Sinfonia Cymru for the past 11 years, SOPHIE LEWIS will become Managing Director of the National Children’s Orchestras of Great Britain. She takes over from CARRIE SAGE, who will step down at the end of this year.