After six and a half years as Artistic Director of the Unicorn Theatre in London, PURNI MORELL has announced she will step down in Spring 2018.
2nd November 2017
ANGELA DOANE will take responsibility for developing the collections of the BFI National Archive and BFI Reuben Library in her new role as Head of Collections and Information.
LAUREN CLANCY, formerly Head of Marketing at London’s Bush Theatre, has been promoted to the role of Executive Director. She replaces JON GILCHRIST, who has joined HOME in Manchester as Executive Director.
26th October 2017
The largest arts venue in the Scottish Highlands, Eden Court, has appointed JAMES MACKENZIE-BLACKMAN, currently Executive Director at New Adventures, as its new Chief Executive. He succeeds COLIN MARR, who is now Chief Executive of Edinburgh Playhouse.
Young Vic Executive Director LUCY WOOLLATT has announced that she will step down in December, having held this role since 2010.
Formerly Deputy Director at Oxford Playhouse and Deputy Director at Arnolfini, POLLY COLE has become Executive Director of Pegasus Theatre, Oxford. She also becomes Joint Chief Executive, working alongside Artistic Director CORINNE MICALLEF.
TAREK ISKANDER, a founder and Associate Artistic Director of the Yard Theatre and former Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio, has been appointed interim Director of Theatre at Arts Council England for nine months. Also a management consultant for the National Health Service, he fills in for NEIL DARLISON,...
Co-founder and Co-director of Salford-based contemporary art gallery The International 3, PAULETTE TERRY BRIEN, has been named as The Grundy Art Gallery’s new Curator. She will begin in mid-November.
Currently Artistic Director of Denmark’s Helsingør Teater and PASSAGE Festival in Denmark and Sweden, JENS FRIMANN HANSEN has taken on the additional role of Artistic Director of SO Festival in Skegness.
19th October 2017
Composer ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER has stepped down as a Conservative peer, saying his work schedule is incompatible with the demands of the House of Lords.