REBECCA MANSON JONES, founder of participatory theatre company Just Jones &, has been appointed as Spare Tyre’s new Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive Officer. She joins after a nine-month period leading immersive theatre company Oily Cart as Interim Director. She has held senior roles at Exeter Northcott Theatre and The Almeida Theatres, and was the first UK winner of an Ibsen Scholarship for her immersive gender-...
21st June 2019
Five new Trustees have been appointed to the British Library board: DELROY BEVERLEY, Executive Director at Nottingham City Homes; JEREMY SILVER, CEO of Digital Catapult and a member of the UK Creative industries Council; WEI YANG, Chairman of Wei Yang & Partners, an urban design and master planning practice in London; LAELA PAKPOUR-TABRIZI, Group Chief Financial Officer of...
DARIUS KHWAJA, Principal and CEO of the London College of Creative Media (LCCM), is joining Wac Arts as its new Chief Executive. As the co-founder of LCCM, a specialist higher education college for music, writing and entrepreneurship, he helped grow the organisation over 16 years. This included the development of the £34m Music Box in Southwark.
Former airline boss TONY DAVIS has been appointed Board Chair of the East Midlands professional orchestra Sinfonia Viva. The aviation consultant and advisor has previously served on the board of New College Nottingham and the Lichfield Festival.
CHARLY RICHARDSON, Lead Officer at Essex Music Education, is replacing PETER HAYWARD as Chief Executive of Lewisham Music. Hayward is retiring after a decade leading the organisation.
Dame JOAN RUDDOCK, MP for Lewisham Deptford from 1987 to 2015, has also joined the Music Education Hub as Chair of the its newly-expanded Board of Trustees. The new board members are FIONA LAMBERT...
Creative Producer at the Actors Centre JOEL FISHER is leaving after two years leading the organisation, in order to pursue other creative projects.
14th June 2019
National Theatre Wales CEO KULLY THIARAI is leaving the company to become Artistic Director of cultural investment programme Leeds 2023. Thiarai, who has previously worked at Leeds Playhouse and Transform Festival, said she was "thrilled" to return to the city and create a "unique, daring and ambitious" range of works for its year-long culture festival.
Shubbak, a UK-based festival of contemporary Arab culture, has appointed FARÈS K MOUSSA as its new Executive Director. He is joining from Strode Theatre in Somerset, where he has been Director since 2017. Moussa was previously House Manager at the Royal Opera House and a councillor for the London Borough of...
The Irish Writers Centre has announced HILARY COPELAND will step in as Acting Director during VALERIE BISTANY's partial sabbatical year. Copeland led the literary organisation The John Hewitt Society from 2013 - 2019, where she ran the society’s international summer school and established the...
Principal dancer NEHEMIAH KISH has announced his decision to retire from The Royal Ballet at the end of the 2018/19 season after nine years with the company. He trained at Canada’s National Ballet School and joined the National Ballet of Canada in 2001, where he was promoted to Principal in 2005. In 2008, he...