After 25 years with Artsreach, Director IAN SCOTT is to step down and retire. He will be replaced by CAROLINE CORFE, who was previously Director of Bridport Arts Centre.
4th February 2016
JEMIMA LEVICK, Artistic Director of Dundee Rep since 2013, is to step down to become Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Stellar Quines.
CLAIRE GEVAUX is to join Help Musicians UK as its first Creative Director. She arrives from the Foundation for FutureLondon, where she worked to maintain the legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The British American Drama Academy (BADA) has announced that STEPHEN UNWIN, founder of English Touring Theatre, is to succeed IAN WOOLDRIDGE as Dean and Director.
The new Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, SHONA McCARTHY is to be Chair of the Board of Trustees at Salford-based Walk the Plank.
Conductor MIRGA GRAŽINYTĖ-TYLA is to join City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra as its 12th Music Director from September 2016 for a three-year period.
Having been with the company as Executive Director since 2013, JUDITH KILVINGTON is to become Joint Chief Executive of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre alongside DOMINIC HILL.
28th January 2016
One Dance UK has appointed ANDREW HURST, currently part of the senior management team at The Royal Ballet, as its first Chief Executive. He will take up his post in April, when the organisation is officially formed from the merger of four dance bodies.
Freelance producer and arts consultant CONRAD LYNCH is to join Theatre by the Lake as Artistic Director and Chief Executive. Previously Producer for ATG, he replaces Executive Director PATRIC GILCHRIST and Artistic Director IAN FORREST, who will both stand down later this year.
LISA MEAD and ROBERT SAUNDERS have been promoted to Artistic Director and Administrative Director respectively at spoken word and performance poetry organisation Apples and Snakes.