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Sarah O’Reilly
Shreela Ghosh
Dan Bates
Anthony Clark
Julien Boast
Nelson McCausland

Sarah O’Reilly (pictured) has been appointed General Manager of the Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, working alongside Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff. Previously at Tate, where she was Programme Manager for Transforming Tate Modern, she succeeds Laura Stevenson, who has joined Sadler’s Wells as General Manager.
The Art Fund has appointed Dr Stephen Deuchar as its new Director. He is currently Director of Tate Britain and Chairman of the 2009 Turner Prize, and will take up his post in January 2010.
Free Word, a new international centre for literature, literacy and free expression, which opens in London on 15 September, is to be led by Shreela Ghosh (pictured). In her previous role she was responsible for the opening of Rivington Place, a new centre for the Visual Arts in Shoreditch. She has also worked at Arts Council England, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and as Head of Arts for Tower Hamlets.
Dan Bates (pictured) will become Chief Executive of Sheffield Theatres in September, taking over from Interim Chief Executive Donna Munday. He has been Chief Executive at York Theatre Royal since January 2005, and before that worked at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Tom Womwell is to take up the newly created post of Marketing and Touring Officer at the Cambridge office of theatre company New International Encounter. He was previously Marketing Officer at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.
The Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre Anthony Clark (pictured) will step down in January 2010. He has been with the theatre for seven years, and will now pursue freelance interests as a director and writer.
Sarah Dance and Chris Chandler are joining Screen South, the Regional Screen Agency for the South East, as Joint Interim Chief Executive Officers to cover current CEO Jo Nolan’s maternity leave.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has appointed Di Robson as Event Producer for its 2012 Cultural Olympiad event. She is the former Artistic Director of Glasgow’s Mayfest, and is currently producing a national programme of five artists’ commissions, funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Four Sports, Arts & Sponsorship, which advises major companies and organisations on their cultural sponsorship programme, has made two senior appointments. Michelle Wright is the new Head of Arts to cover Rachel Clarke’s maternity leave, and Emily Droy joins as Account Director. Wright moves from the London Symphony Orchestra where she was Development Director, and Droy joins from the British Film Institute where she was Head of Sponsorship.
Ambassador Theatre Group has announced that Julien Boast (pictured) will be the Interim Chief Executive for the Churchill Theatre Bromley. He is also the Chief Executive of Theatre Royal Brighton and will temporarily take on responsibility for both theatres. Current Chief Executive Derek Nicholls is leaving after six years to join Qdos Entertainment.
Claire Askew and Sharon Harriott have joined the London Poetry Festival team as Residency and Education Director and Public Relations Director respectively.
The new Communications Assistant at Audiences Central is Melissa Davies-Lawrence, who previously worked for Craftspace. She replaces Fiona Handscomb who has left to join the RSC.
Nelson McCausland (pictured) has been appointed Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure in the Northern Ireland Executive. Representing the Democratic Unionist Party, he was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly in 2003 and is a long serving member of Belfast City Council.
The Royal College of Art has appointed Richard Wentworth as the new Professor and Head of its Sculpture Department. He is currently serving as Master of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University, and will succeed Professor Glynn Williams who is retiring.