MICHAEL CLARKE CBE is to retire as Director of the Scottish National Gallery and Deputy Director of the National Galleries of Scotland at the end of September.
26th May 2016
Currently Relationship Manager at Arts Council England (ACE), LEROY PHILBROOK will be Burnley Youth Theatre's new Executive Director. He will be joined by ANTHONY PRESTON, previously a Senior Manager at ACE, as Chair of Trustees.
ANDREW PETTIE, Head of Arts & Entertainment at The Telegraph since March 2014, is leaving the newspaper as part of a round of cuts.
Director of Programme at The Hepworth Wakefield and former curator at Turner Contemporary LAUREN A WRIGHT is to become Programme Director at Siobhan Davies Dance from June.
Director STEPHEN WRENTMORE, who has worked at the National Theatre and the Crucible in Sheffield, is to join Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts, as its first Artistic Producer.
CAROL MAUND, formerly Artistic and Executive Director of Sheffield’s Site Gallery, has become Interim Executive Director of Peckham Platform while Founding Executive Director EMILY DRUIFF is on maternity leave.
Arts & Business Scotland has appointed DIANA MURRAY as the new Chair of its Board of Trustees. She replaces SARAH DEAS.
25th May 2016
Ahead of the departure of Deputy Chief Executive ALTHEA EFUNSHILE, Arts Council England (ACE) is restructuring its Executive Board. LAURA DYER and SIMON MELLOR will become deputies for Chief Executive DARREN HENLEY. Their roles will be Deputy CEO, Places & Engagement and Deputy...
19th May 2016
SIR HOWARD PANTER, Joint CEO and Creative Director, and ROSEMARY SQUIRE OBE, Joint CEO, are to take on different positions within the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG). PANTER is to continue as Executive Producer on some existing and future ATG projects, while SQUIRE is to become Deputy Chairman of the ATG Group. Both will continue as directors and shareholders of the company. They will also acquire the Trafalgar...
LISA SPIRLING, currently Artistic Coordinator of the JMK Trust’s Regional Directors Program and previously Programming Director at Theatre503, is to become Theatre503’s new Artistic Director from August 2016. She is to replace PAUL ROBINSON, who leaves to become Artistic Director of The Stephen Joseph Theatre...