SANJIVAN KOHLI, Executive Producer at Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, is leaving the organisation after five years in post to join the Royal College of Art as Trusts and Foundations Manager on a maternity-cover contract. JENNY ROBERTS, whose previous roles include Administrative Director for Oxfordshire Theatre Company, replaces him as Interim Executive Director. CAROLINE CLARK also joins as Fundraising...
23rd July 2014
The new Director for Arab culture festival Shubbak is DANIEL GORMAN. Gorman, who co-founded Reel Festivals and has worked as the Director of Firefly International, succeeds SUE DAVIES, who founded the festival.
The King’s Head Theatre has appointed MATTHEW PARKER as the Artistic Director of its fringe venue Hope Theatre. He takes over from ADAM SPREADBURY-MAHER, who has been running both venues and will continue as Artistic Director of the King’s Head Theatre.
LINDSEY ALVIS is leaving Headlong to take up the position of Producer at Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse. Director NICK BAGNALL also joins the company as its first permanent Associate Director.
17th July 2014
Culture Secretary SAJID JAVID will remain in post following the recent Government reshuffle, while ED VAIZEY, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has been promoted to become minister of state. In addition to his existing portfolio, he will take on responsibility for the Digital Industries at both the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Business, Innovation and...
The new Chief Executive of Oxford Playhouse will be LOUISE CHANTAL. Currently an independent theatre producer, she was formerly a Producer for the London 2012 Festival and Cultural Olympiad, and has worked extensively at the Edinburgh Festival and with Soho Theatre.
10th July 2014
The General Manager of Sheffield Theatres, SARAH NICHOLSON, is stepping down to take up the post of Executive Director of the Orange Tree Theatre in London. Replacing GILLIAN THORPE who retires, she joins the recently appointed Artistic Director PAUL MILLER. The announcement follows the news that ...
The Clore Leadership Programme has appointed outgoing Director of the National Portrait Gallery SANDY NAIRNE as its new Chair. He succeeds SIR JOHN TUSA who has been in post since 2009.
CHRISTOPHER JONAS is the new Chair of the Board of the Contemporary Art Society. He was formerly Chairman of Goldsmiths University of London and President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
The Ambassador Theatre Group has appointed JONATHAN GRISDALE as its new Managing Director – Sponsorship, Sales & Marketing. He joins the company from TUI Marine where he was President and CEO.