Imagine Theatre has appointed LAURA TAYLOR as Head of Marketing and Business Development. She joins after roles at First Family Entertainment, where she worked as Associate Producer, and Qdos Entertainment, where she headed up the marketing department.
5th July 2017
29th June 2017
BEN WRIGHT and CHARLOTTE DARBYSHIRE are to take over as Artistic Co-Directors of Candoco Dance Company later this year. They will replace STINE NILSEN and PEDRO MACHADO, who announced their departure in January.
Arts Council England’s Senior Manager for Engagement and Audiences HELEN FEATHERSTONE will take up the role of Director of Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust (SIMT) in July. The news follows the retirement of SIMT’s long-standing Chief Executive, JOHN HAMSHERE.
NIALL LOTHIAN, who joined the Board of Edinburgh International Festival in 2011 and was elected Deputy Chairman in 2014, has become the organisation’s new Chairman. He will serve for a four-year term.
HUSSAM OTAIBI has been appointed Chair of Children & the Arts, succeeding NEIL MENDOZA, who steps down after a four-year tenure.
Following six years as Director of Development & Communications at Modern Art Oxford, VERITY SLATER is joining St George’s Bristol as Head of Development.
Currently a freelance Producer and Programmer, and a trustee of Boundless Theatre, JAKE ORR is to become Producer at Theatre503 from early July.
22nd June 2017
JO KEMP has become Director of Business Development at Derby-based Hubbub Theatre Company. She joins from Nottingham City Museums and Galleries, where she has been Learning, Engagement and Collections Manager for the past 17 years.
Dean of the Faculty of Creative Industries at the University of South Wales, JANE MCCLOSKEY, will become Chair of National Dance Company Wales from September.
Producer KENNY WAX has been appointed President of Society of London Theatre (SOLT). He takes over from current President, CARO NEWLING, who concludes a three-year tenure.