After 21 years with the Royal Exchange Theatre, the last five of which as sole Artistic Director, SARAH FRANKCOM is leaving to take up the post of Director at drama school LAMDA in November. Alongside her work on stage, she established the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and championed the development of community projects such as Young Company and Elders, Open Exchange, and the Theatre’s newest programme, Local Exchange
1st March 2019
BECKY WEST is the new Regional Producer – North for Orchestras Live. She has previously worked for the Association of British Orchestras, Trinity College of Music’s Junior department, and as General Manager for November Club, a Northumberland based site-specific theatre company. TOM FOSTER has also joined the team as Administration and Communications Assistant.
LOSAL CHIODAK is the new Genesis Young Curator for Create London, a role supported by the Genesis Foundation. During the year-long position he will spend three days a week working with Create and for the first six months will spend one day a week with the curatorial team at Tate Britain. Subsequently he will spend one day a week at Chisenhale Gallery, working on the organisation’s Engagement Programme.
Directors STEVE HEAP and LIOUX HEAP are to retire after the 2019 Towersey festival. Steve Heap first attended Towersey in 1966 as a performer, before taking on roles including Steward’s Coordinator, Campsite Manager, Publicity and Marketing Assistant, and finally the festival’s Director in 1975. Lioux Heap joined the festival in 1996 as the Office Manager and went on to several other roles including Box Office Manager, Artists’ Liaison, Accreditation Manager and creating and producing the All About Children strand.
Cornwall based theatre company, WildWorks, has announced EMMA HOGG as the company’s Executive Director. The former Programme Producer for Eden Project joined WildWorks in 2014.
Artistic Director of Studio Wayne McGregor and Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, WAYNE MCGREGOR, has been appointed as the new Vice President of Elmhurst Ballet School. The appointment marks the new partnership between Studio Wayne McGregor and Elmhurst Ballet School.
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The new music endowment fund for Wales, Anthem, has announced seven new members. BEATE DEGAN, DAN O’GORMAN, ERIC MARTIN, MARK HILL, MICHAEL PUGH, SUE GRIFFIN, and TOKS DADA have joined the board, which is chaired by ARNOUT VAN DER VEER.
Five members have been appointed to the board of trustees at Colston Hall: PAT CONNOR, Director of BBC South West and the BBC’s Head of Development & Events; TONY CHERRY, partner at DAC Beachcroft LLP; CRAIG GENTLE, Chief Financial Officer at St. James’s Place Wealth Management; SANDRA MEADOWS, member of the Chartered Management Institute and Chief Executive Officer of Voscur; and Bristol based singer-songwriter TANYA LACEY. They will oversee the £48.8m transformation of the venue.
The British Arts Festivals Association has appointed SONIA STEVENSON, Director and Founder of St Andrews Voices Festival, as its youngest ever Chair. FIONA GOH, freelance arts consultant, producer, researcher and former Director of Holmfirth Arts Festival, joins as Director.
22nd February 2019
Formerly Director of Museums and Cultural Programmes at University College London, TONYA NELSON joins Arts Council England as Director of Arts Technology and Innovation, where she will support the cultural sector to adopt new technologies. She is also a trustee of the National Gallery and Chair of the UK International Council of Museums, as well as a former Clore Leadership Fellow and British Council Cultural Leadership International Fellow.