The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) has appointed ten new members to its board, including PAT CONNOR, Head of Development & Events at BBC North, and Professor JANET BEER, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool.
26th November 2015
19th November 2015
REBECCA ATKINSON-LORD and RACHEL BRISCOE are to leave their roles as Co-Directors of Theatre at Ovalhouse to focus on their respective theatre companies, Arch 468 and fanSHEN.
SEBASTIAN F SCHWARZ, currently Deputy Artistic Director of Theater an der Wien in Vienna, is to join Glyndebourne as its new General Director from May 2016.
DOMINIC JEWEL is to leave his role as Chief Executive of the Three Choirs Festival in December, to be replaced by ALEXIS PATERSON, currently Manager of Cheltenham Festivals.
Formerly Senior Press & PR Officer, Globe Education at Shakespeare's Globe, PHOEBE GARDINER has taken up a new role as Officer, Advocacy and Communications at Arts Council England for the London area.
Previously Torbay’s Liberal Democrat MP, and member of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, ADRIAN SANDERS has been appointed as Chairman of the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers.
GRANT BLACK has joined The Rural Media Company as Creative Director, having spent almost ten years as a producer and scriptwriter for various shows across the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
LAURA JEFFERY, Communications Manager at Situations, has left to start her own marketing consultancy business, The Butterfly Effect.
12th November 2015
KATH MAINLAND is to step down as Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society after seven years in the role. She will join the Melbourne Festival as its new Executive Director in February.
Having been with Creative Scotland since its inception, both DAVID TAYLOR, Head of Strategic Projects, and IAN SMITH, Head of Music, are to retire in 2016.