Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres DANIEL EVANS is to leave in June 2016 to take over as Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre, succeeding JONATHAN CHURCH.
3rd December 2015
Former Director of Great North Run Culture and Chair of Wunderbar Festival BETH BATE is to replace CLIVE GILLMAN as Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts.
JOANNE BENJAMIN is to join Leicester’s Curve theatre as Executive Producer, replacing CHRIS STAFFORD who was appointed Chief Executive at Curve earlier this year.
LUCINDA MORRISON, Head of Press at the National Theatre, is to leave after 19 years with the organisation. She will take up the role of Head of Press at Chichester Festival Theatre from February 2016.
Currently Executive Director at Theatre 503, JEREMY WOODHOUSE is to join English Touring Theatre as Associate Producer in February 2016.
Culture Action Europe, the umbrella organisation representing the cultural sector at the European level, has elected ROBERT MANCHIN as its new President.
26th November 2015
FIONA GASPER is to leave the Royal Exchange Theatre after five and a half years to join Manchester International Festival as Executive Director. She will split her time between the two organisations from mid-February, before joining MIF full time at the end of March, replacing JIM FORRESTER, who steps down after six years in post.
Currently Executive Director of Free Word, ELEANOR LANG will take up the role of Executive Director at Cheek by Jowl from January 2016. She succeeds BETH BYRNE, who will join the Southbank Centre as Executive Producer in December.
MARGARET HODGE MP, who has formerly been Culture Minister and Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, has been appointed Chair of Theatre Royal Stratford East.
TONY CHARLES, the Director of Platform A Gallery in Middlesbrough, will join Cleveland College of Art and Design in Hartlepool as a fine art lecturer. NIK HOLMES and FRANCES MOFFATT also join the college as illustration lecturers.