The new Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Manchester International Festival will be JOHN MCGRATH. He has been Founding Artistic Director and Chief Executive of National Theatre Wales for the past seven years, prior to which he was Artistic Director of Manchester’s Contact Theatre. He will replace ALEX POOTS...
14th May 2015
MARK THOMSON will end his tenure as Artistic Director at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre in May 2016, having been in the role since 2003.
The outgoing Controller of BBC Drama Commissioning, BEN STEPHENSON, is to be replaced by POLLY HILL, currently Head of Independent Drama at the BBC.
SAMANTHA LANE, current Director of Projects at the Almeida Theatre, is to become Artistic Director / Chief Executive of Little Angel in June.
ALISON FLINT is to leave her role as Director of Marketing and Communications for Hull UK City of Culture 2017 at the end of this month, with colleague PHIL BATTY to oversee the role until a replacement is found.
Former Head of Cultural Campaigns for the Mayor of London, MARK PRESCOTT, is set to be the Creative Director of Reading Year of Culture 2016.
12th May 2015
Following HARRIET HARMAN MP’s appointment as acting leader of the Labour Party, CHRIS BRYANT MP has replaced her as Shadow Culture Secretary. He has been Shadow Minister for the Arts since December.
11th May 2015
The new UK Culture Secretary is JOHN WHITTINGDALE, who has chaired the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee for the last decade and was Shadow Culture Secretary in 2004/5. He replaces SAJID JAVID who becomes Business Secretary.
7th May 2015
Currently Chief Executive of Leicester’s Curve Theatre, FIONA ALLAN will become the new Chief Executive of Birmingham Hippodrome when STUART GRIFFITHS moves to Ambassador Theatre Group in July. Her other arts roles have been as Head of Programming at Sydney Opera House, CEO of Sydney Film Festival and Artistic Director of Wales Millennium Centre.
EMMA RICE, Joint Artistic Director of Cornwall-based Kneehigh theatre company, will take over from DOMINIC DROMGOOLE as Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe from April 2016.