SARA LOCK, currently the Marketing and Development Manager at Salisbury Arts Centre, and LARAINE PENSON, Director of Communications at Northern Ballet, are to join the Arts Marketing Association (AMA) as Associate Editor and Associate Producer respectively.
30th July 2015
Othermother, established by director ANNA POOLE, producer OLIVIA HARRIS and playwright KELLY JONES will be based in Cardiff and perform its first production at the Other Room.
Former Media and Communications Officer at Manchester Cornerhouse and The University of Manchester JO NIGHTINGALE has been appointed as the Press and PR Officer for the Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove .
CLEMMIE REYNOLDS has been appointed Artistic Director at the Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis, leaving her role as Artistic Director at BurntOut Theatre.
24th July 2015
Recently appointed Chief Executive of the Birmingham Hippodrome and outgoing CEO of Leicester’s Curve Theatre, FIONA ALLAN will become Chair of The Space, the joint venture between the BBC and Arts Council England. Starting in September, she steps into the vacancy created earlier this year when ALEX GRAHAM left after a year in post, citing lack of time to do the project justice.
23rd July 2015
SIMON MELLOR, Executive Director of Arts and Culture at Arts Council England, is being released to Manchester City Council on a part-time basis in order to take up the role of Project Director of The Factory, Manchester’s new theatre and arts venue, which is set to open by 2019.
NEIL MURRAY and GRAHAM MCLAREN will be the new Directors of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Both will leave the National Theatre of Scotland, where they have been Executive Producer and Associate Director respectively. They replace Director FIACH MAC CONGHAIL, who will leave the theatre at the end of 2016 after 12 years in post.
CAROLINE ROUTH, currently the Executive Producer for the Musical Theatre Network, is to join Nuffield later this year as its first Executive Director.
The current Director of Strategy and Deputy CEO at VisitEngland, LOUISE STEWART, is to take over as Chief Executive of Alexandra Palace in London and work on its £18.8m Heritage Lottery-backed regeneration.
Former Chief Executive of Rambert Dance SUE WYATT will be Chair Designate when the Association of Dance of the African Diaspora, Dance UK, National Dance Teachers Association and Youth Dance England merge into a new organisation from April 2016.