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.
1st March 2019
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...
Artistic Director DAMIAN CRUDEN is stepping down from his position at York Theatre Royal after 22 years with the company. He will take over as Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Rose Theatre project in York and Blenheim.
JAMES DUCKER is leaving his role as Marketing & Communications Manager at Contact, Manchester, to join the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, as Head of Communications & Partnerships. This new position will support the CEO by managing the marketing, fundraising, and box office teams, as well as managing stakeholder partnerships for the organisation.
Co-Founder of The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter, DAVID LOCKWOOD is replacing Founder and Director TRACY SULLIVAN at Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, in April. His experience includes a Clore Leadership Fellowship, and he is currently producing Emma Rice’s theatre company Wise Children.
REBECCA GRAY, former Head of Fiction Publicity at Orion Publishing, has begun her new role as Head of Press and Communications at Glyndebourne.
SARAH DEAN, Head of Tax and Investments at the Grosvenor Estate Family Office; DAVID FLEMING, Chief Technology Officer at Mitigo–a cyber security company based in the North West; and MAX STEINBERG, Chief Executive of Liverpool Vision, will all become trustees of the National Museums Liverpool next month.
15th February 2019
ROB MACPHERSON has announced that he will be leaving Birmingham Hippodrome next month, after 15 years with the theatre. Currently Director of Marketing & Development, he will start a new consultancy venture with digital agency Substrakt, focusing on brand, strategy and creative ways of making an impact in the arts and entertainment.
LAURIE SANSOM will succeed CONRAD NELSON as Artistic Director and CEO of Northern Broadsides in June. He joins the company after leading National Theatre of Scotland and Royal & Derngate, Northampton.
The Director and Chief Curator of the David Roberts Art Foundation, FATOŞ ÜSTEK, has been appointed as the new Director of Liverpool Biennial. Previously an Associate Curator for the 10th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea and curator of the fig-2, 50 projects in 50 weeks, in London, and she is an external member of the Acquisitions Committee for the Arts Council Collection.