Currently Executive Director of Free Word, ELEANOR LANG will take up the role of Executive Director at Cheek by Jowl from January 2016. She succeeds BETH BYRNE, who will join the Southbank Centre as Executive Producer in December.
26th November 2015
MARGARET HODGE MP, who has formerly been Culture Minister and Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, has been appointed Chair of Theatre Royal Stratford East.
TONY CHARLES, the Director of Platform A Gallery in Middlesbrough, will join Cleveland College of Art and Design in Hartlepool as a fine art lecturer. NIK HOLMES and FRANCES MOFFATT also join the college as illustration lecturers.
The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) has appointed ten new members to its board, including PAT CONNOR, Head of Development & Events at BBC North, and Professor JANET BEER, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool.
19th November 2015
REBECCA ATKINSON-LORD and RACHEL BRISCOE are to leave their roles as Co-Directors of Theatre at Ovalhouse to focus on their respective theatre companies, Arch 468 and fanSHEN.
SEBASTIAN F SCHWARZ, currently Deputy Artistic Director of Theater an der Wien in Vienna, is to join Glyndebourne as its new General Director from May 2016.
DOMINIC JEWEL is to leave his role as Chief Executive of the Three Choirs Festival in December, to be replaced by ALEXIS PATERSON, currently Manager of Cheltenham Festivals.
Formerly Senior Press & PR Officer, Globe Education at Shakespeare's Globe, PHOEBE GARDINER has taken up a new role as Officer, Advocacy and Communications at Arts Council England for the London area.
Previously Torbay’s Liberal Democrat MP, and member of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, ADRIAN SANDERS has been appointed as Chairman of the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers.
GRANT BLACK has joined The Rural Media Company as Creative Director, having spent almost ten years as a producer and scriptwriter for various shows across the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.