Cornwall-based site-specific theatre company Wildworks has announced the appointment of MYRIDDIN PHARO (pictured) as its new Artistic Director, a role that has been vacant since the passing of co-founder BILL MITCHELL three years ago. Pharo is the long-standing production designer and a founding artist of Wildworks, and has worked with the company over the past 15 years. Emma Hogg, Wildworks’ Executive Director,...
6th August 2020
Three new board members have become trustees of the Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust, which supports the Everyman & Playhouse theatres. Former Everyman Youth Theatre member NATASHA BUCKNOR (pictured left) is Executive Director at London’s Free Word; Liverpool-born PAUL EVANS (pictured middle) is regional lead for inclusion at Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; and CAMILLA MANKABADY...
30th July 2020
Mansfield Palace Theatre has appointed SIAN BOOTH (pictured) as Cultural Services Manager to oversee the Theatre and Mansfield Museum, as well as the wider cultural offer from Mansfield District Council. Previously at Doncaster’s Cast theatre, where she was Head of Marketing and Communications, she takes over from ANDREW TUCKER who has retired from the theatre which he first joined in 1994.
CEO and Co-Founder of Tessitura Network, the CRM supplier to cultural organisations, JACK RUBIN (pictured left) will be stepping into an advisory capacity for 2021. ANDREW RECINOS (pictured right), Tessitura president since 2017 will take over as President and CEO from January 2021.
BEN PEARCE (pictured) will succeed PETER PEARCE as the new Director of the West Horsley Place Trust, the heritage organisation that is restoring the manor house, gardens and a 380-acre estate as centre for the performing and visual arts and the teaching of crafts. Previously Executive Director of Paintings in Hospitals and prior to this Project Director at the Royal Academy of Arts, Ben Pearce is also a non-...
After 14 years, working alongside artists with learning disabilities at theatre company Mind the Gap, Senior Producer LISA MALLAGHAN (pictured) is leaving the organisation. Associate Producer DEBORAH DICKINSON will be taking over from her.
20th July 2020
DAVID ROSS has been announced as the new Chair of the Royal Opera House board from September, succeeding IAN TAYLOR, who passed away earlier this year. Ross was previously Chair of the Board at the National Portrait Gallery, and co-founder of The Carphone Warehouse Group. He founded Nevill Holt Opera in 2013 and has supported the development of its education and community programme across the Midlands. He supports...
NICK VINER (pictured) will be the new Chair of Jewish Museum London. He previously oversaw the development of JW3, London’s Jewish Cultural and Community Centre, as its founding Chief Executive. He spent 20 years at The Boston Consulting Group and co-founded Circle Sq., a network organisation for people over 50, aimed at harnessing their wisdom and experience. His predecessor at the Museum, LORD YOUNG, stepped...
After almost forty years with the company, SALLY CAVENDER will be stepping down as Performance Music Director and Vice Chairman of Faber Music in December 2020. Her current deputy, SAM WIGGLESWORTH, becomes the company’s new Performance Music Director. Formerly concert producer at St John’s Smith Square, he joined Faber Music as Promoter in 2014 and has been Artistic Director of the Principal Sound Festival. He is...
13th July 2020
The Board of V&A Dundee have appointed LEONIE BELL (pictured) as the new Director. She replaces Founding Director PHILIP LONG, who led the development of V&A Dundee, from its early planning to opening in September 2018, and recently took over the role of Chief Executive of...