PRS for Music Foundation has appointed ROYCE BELL as the new Chair of its Board of Trustees. Bell is CEO of Accenture Information Management Services and has experience of working in non-executive roles in arts organisations including Punchdrunk Theatre and Youth Music Theatre UK.
23rd October 2014
LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) has appointed Tony Award winning producer DAVID BINDER as Artistic Associate following a collaboration on outdoor production ‘Deblozay’.
16th October 2014
After five years at Doncaster Council, MARY NASH takes on the role of Sales & Marketing Manager at The Civic in Barnsley. She will continue her role as Arts Development UK Regional Coordinator for Yorkshire and North East alongside her work at The Civic.
Producer PHIL HARGREAVES has joined Déda’s programming team as Associate Producer (Dance). He has previously worked with Dep Arts, Phoenix Dance Theatre, 2Faced Dance Company and Joss Arnott Dance.
Harrogate Theatres has appointed playwright AMANADA WHITTINGTON, director JOYCE BRANAGH and former senior manager at Arts Council England Yorkshire, MARK HOLLANDER, to its board of directors.
9th October 2014
National Theatre Chief Operating Officer LISA BURGER has been named Executive Director, joining Chief Executive TESSA ROSS and Director RUFUS NORRIS on the executive team, following the departure of NICK STARR. Burger joined the theatre in 2001 as Finance Director.
Curator for Birmingham’s Ikon gallery STUART TULLOCH is leaving to become the new Chief Executive of The Art House, Wakefield. He has previously held positions at the Hayward Gallery, Newcastle’s Hatton Gallery and the Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool.
National Youth Dance Wales has appointed KERRY NICHOLLS as its new Artistic Director. Nicholls was appointed Co-Director of Creative Learning for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance in 2007, and has worked as a teacher, choreographer and mentor within professional companies and schools all around the world.
GRAEME HOWELL will succeed GWILYN GIBBONS as General Manager of Shetland Arts. Howell is currently Centre Director for Heath Mill Studios and was previously Director of Colston Hall, Bristol.
The new Artistic Director of Sixth Sense Theatre for Young People is MARK POWELL. He returns to the company, having worked as an Assistant Director and Youth Theatre Leader there earlier in his career. He has spent the last ten years at Salisbury Playhouse, where he led the education department before taking on the role of Associate Director.