Arts Council England Deputy Chief Executive ALTHEA EFUNSHILE is to step down in October 2016, having been in the role since 2012 and with the organisation since 2007. She is to lead and complete the planning of the 2018/19 to 2020/21 investment process before departing.
17th December 2015
GEMMA OKELL is to leave Salisbury Arts Centre after 10 years with the organisation – and four years as Director – to take time off to go travelling.
CEO of West Australian Ballet STEVEN ROTH is to become Executive Director at Scottish Ballet from March 2016, joining the recently appointed Chief Executive / Artistic Director CHRISTOPHER HAMPSON.
JULIE LOMAX, Director of Visual Arts at Australia Council for the Arts, is to be Director of Development at Liverpool Biennial from March 2016. She will be joined by KITTY SCOTT, currently Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, who is to be Co-curator of Liverpool Biennial 2018.
10th December 2015
KIKI GALE, former Chief Executive of East London Dance, has been appointed Director of Dance for Parkinson’s Network UK - based within People Dancing’s national team - for three years on a part-time basis.
Director of Opera at The Royal Opera KASPER HOLTEN is to leave and return to Copenhagen at the end of March 2017.
DR CINDY SUGHRUE, currently Director of the Charles Dickens Museum and former Chief Executive and Executive Producer of Scottish Ballet, is to join the board of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.
Scottish Youth Theatre’s Chief Executive MARY McCLUSKEY has stepped down, but will remain working at the organisation as Artistic Director part-time from February 2016.
3rd December 2015
Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres DANIEL EVANS is to leave in June 2016 to take over as Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre, succeeding JONATHAN CHURCH.
Former Director of Great North Run Culture and Chair of Wunderbar Festival BETH BATE is to replace CLIVE GILLMAN as Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts.