JAN TEO, formerly Chief Operating Officer for Deutsche Bank’s European Service Centres, will be the new Chief Executive of Birmingham Royal Ballet. A Board member for the past two years, she will succeed current Chief Executive CHRISTOPHER BARRON.
18th June 2015
The Lyric Hammersmith’s Executive Director of nearly ten years, JESSICA HEPBURN will be leaving later this year to focus on her writing career. Her final challenge is swimming the English Channel to raise money for the theatre’s work for disadvantaged children.
ANGUS MACKECHNIE has been appointed as the new Executive Director of ISAN, the membership body that supports the development of outdoor arts. Currently the Producer and Programmer of the National Theatre’s Watch This Space Festival and Platforms series, he will take over from Interim Director BETTINA LINSTRUM.
KARENA JOHNSON has been appointed as Artistic Director and CEO of the Victorian venue Hoxton Hall. In her earlier career she was Artistic Director of The Broadway in Barking, Director of Loud Talkin’, Artistic Director of theatre company Kushite, and Head of Theatre Programming at Oval House theatre.
HELEN WILKINSON has become Assistant Director at the Association of Independent Museums. Most recently a consultant with the Museum Consultancy, she has previously led the Museums Association’s policy work, and worked as a curator, documentation officer and manager in museums including the V&A.
JAMES ROOSE-EVANS, who set up Hampstead Theatre more than 50 years ago, has established a new theatre company, Frontier Theatre, to provide opportunities for experienced performers who are overlooked by casting directors on the grounds of their age.
The new Chair of Fertile Ground dance company will be COLETTE HARRISON. She is a consultant specialising in working with third sector, higher education and arts organisations.
The Prime Minister has appointed JOHN AKOMFRAH OBE as a trustee at Tate for five years, and STEPHEN WITHERFORD for four years. DR JOANNA KENNEDY will join the Board of the National Portrait Gallery for four years.
11th June 2015
Chair of the Board of Trustees for HOME, Manchester’s new arts centre, JIM FORRESTER will leave his post in October. He joined the board in 2012 and has led the organisation through the development of its new building and the merger of its two originating companies.
ELINOR MORGAN and MIGUEL AMADO join the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art as Senior Curators. Morgan leaves her post at Eastside Projects in Birmingham to take up the role, while Amado has previously worked at Tate St Ives in Cornwall and the Abrons Art Centre in New York.