SIMON MELLOR, Executive Director of Arts and Culture at Arts Council England, is being released to Manchester City Council on a part-time basis in order to take up the role of Project Director of The Factory, Manchester’s new theatre and arts venue, which is set to open by 2019.
23rd July 2015
NEIL MURRAY and GRAHAM MCLAREN will be the new Directors of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Both will leave the National Theatre of Scotland, where they have been Executive Producer and Associate Director respectively. They replace Director FIACH MAC CONGHAIL, who will leave the theatre at the end of 2016 after 12 years in post.
CAROLINE ROUTH, currently the Executive Producer for the Musical Theatre Network, is to join Nuffield later this year as its first Executive Director.
The current Director of Strategy and Deputy CEO at VisitEngland, LOUISE STEWART, is to take over as Chief Executive of Alexandra Palace in London and work on its £18.8m Heritage Lottery-backed regeneration.
Former Chief Executive of Rambert Dance SUE WYATT will be Chair Designate when the Association of Dance of the African Diaspora, Dance UK, National Dance Teachers Association and Youth Dance England merge into a new organisation from April 2016.
Director of Grants & Programmes at the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, RÉGIS COCHEFERT, is to become Chair of the Board at the Ministry of Stories, taking over from its co-founder NICK HORNBY, who will take up a new role as ‘First Minister’.
JOHN SMITH, General Secretary of the Musicians’ Union, will succeed FRAN NEVRKLA as Chairman of PPL from 2016.
16th July 2015
The Touring Network, the company championing rural touring in Scotland, has appointed JO MCLEAN as its first ever Chief Executive Officer.
ELEANOR WARD has joined Nonclassical as Executive Director, departing from her role as Festival Coordinator/Producer at Field Day.
10th July 2015
After 20 years with English National Opera, and 10 years as Artistic Director, JOHN BERRY is to step down. He said: “My work is now done and ENO is today regarded as one of the most creative forces in opera… I am looking forward to spending the summer deciding on my next role.” His resignation comes soon after the...