Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, SHONAGH MANSON will step down in early October after eight years in the role to take up a new position with the Greater London Authority as Assistant Director, Culture and Creative Industries.
25th August 2017
18th August 2017
MICHELLE SMITH has been elected Chair of Trustees at Spare Tyre. She is Communications Lead for the Midlands and East at NHS Improvement, the national body supporting NHS Trusts in England, and has served as a trustee with Spare Tyre for three years.
Currently Project Manager within National Theatre of Scotland’s LEARN Department, MAHRI REILLY is to join Ovalhouse as the organisation’s first Head of Learning and Participation.
Writer, artist and producer DEBORAH COUGHLIN has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of The Old Church in Stoke Newington.
RACHEL NELKEN, Senior Producer at the Roundhouse, will join the Albany as the venue’s new Head of Creative Programmes in October.
NAOMI SHOBA has been appointed Senior Arts & Music Manager: Diversity by Glasgow Life, which manages arts spaces including Tramway and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
14th August 2017
Executive Producer at Shakespeare’s Globe since 2012, TOM BIRD is to become Executive Director at York Theatre Royal from December. He takes over from LIZ WILSON, who stepped down as Chief Executive in June.
The new Chair of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) is JOHN DERRICK, who has held senior roles at Barclays and Goldman Sachs, and is currently Chair of RWCMD’s London advisory group.
4th August 2017
Currently Controller of BBC Radio 3 and formerly Chief Executive of the Arts Council, ALAN DAVEY has joined the board at the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
CHRISTINA HILL, STEPHEN SKRYPEC and JENNY MALE have joined the TRG Arts UK and Europe team as Senior Consultant, Consulting Analyst and Administrator respectively.