Executive Director of Reading Rep SHARON LAWLESS is leaving to become Forest Forge Theatre Company’s first CEO and Creative Producer, following the recent departure of Artistic Director KIRSTIE DAVIS.
30th June 2016
KATHLEEN SORIANO, previously Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, will become Chair of the Liverpool Biennial from October 2016. She replaces PAULA RIDLEY, who steps down after nine years in the role.
Former Director of Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, LIBBY BUCKLEY, is to take up the position of Director of the Leach Pottery, St Ives, from early July.
TAMSIN DILLON, former Director of Art on the Underground, and REBECCA HEALD, former Director of New Contemporaries, are both to join the King's Cross Central Limited Partnership as the new Curators for the King’s Cross Project.
Recently interim Artistic Director at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, IVAN VAN KALMTHOUT is to become Chief Executive of Mahogany Opera Group from the end of July.
28th June 2016
Shadow Culture Secretary MARIA EAGLE has stepped down. She has been replaced by KELVIN HOPKINS, who was Co-Chair of the Labour Leave campaign in the run up to the EU referendum. He is the fifth MP to hold the title since May 2015.
23rd June 2016
Following the death of SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES earlier this year, The Royal Society of Musicians has appointed composer JUDITH WEIR as its new President.
RICHARD TWYMAN, an Associate Director at London’s Royal Court Theatre, is to become Artistic Director of English Touring Theatre. He will replace RACHEL TACKLEY in November, who will join Chichester Festival Theatre as Executive Director.
ROMA BACKHOUSE, founder of the Bloomsbury Festival, is to join Free Word as Director from September. She will replace ROSE FENTON, who is to step down after five years in the role.
LLOYD ANDERSON has stepped down as Director of British Council Scotland, after almost five years in post. He has been succeeded by JACKIE KILLEEN, formerly Director, Scotland, for the Big Lottery Fund.