A former director at Northern Ballet and Northern School of Contemporary Dance, SELINA MCGONAGLE has been appointed as the new Director of the Geraldine Connor Foundation. She replaces AMY BERE who left last year to become General Manager (Arts) at Dartington in Devon.
3rd March 2016
ERIC GAUTRON has been appointed Technical Director of Glyndebourne. Currently Technical Director of The Metropolitan Opera in New York, his previous experience includes four years with multidisciplinary production company Ex Machina, under the artistic direction of Robert Lepage.
London Mozart Players has completed a management restructure. NICK MALLETT takes over from Rowan Freeland as Chairman of the LMP Trust; Co-Principal cello JULIA DESBRUSLAIS becomes Executive Director; SEAN ROURKE takes the role of Sponsorship & Development Manager; and JENNY BRADY leads Creative Learning & Participation.
25th February 2016
ALI ROBERTSON, Director of Tobacco Factory Theatres since 2007, will become Kneehigh Theatre’s new Executive Producer in June. He will replace PAUL CREWES, who is joining the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts as its first Artistic Director.
Following the departure of MARTIN HALLIDAY last summer, LEE HENDERSON will join the Marina Theatre, Lowestoft as Chief Executive.
Recently Executive Director for Rifco and Executive Producer for The Red Room Theatre and Film Company, BRYAN SAVERY has taken up the role of Executive Director at the Free Word Centre. He replaces ELEANOR LANG, who is now Executive Director of Cheek by Jowl.
JO DITCH has been appointed as Venue Director at Watford Colosseum, having previously worked at Dunstable’s Grove Theatre and Trafalgar Studios.
After 16 years as Head of Music & Events at Buckinghamshire New University, TERESA MOORE is to join A Greener Festival as Director.
BENGI ÜNSAL, formerly Director of Salon at the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, has been appointed as Senior Contemporary Music Programmer at the Southbank Centre.
DAVID PRATLEY, Chair of Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts, is to step down in the autumn after seven years in the role.