The Puppet Centre Trust has appointed LINDA LEWIS as Director and EMMA LEISHMAN as Administrator. Lewis has been Director of the Visions festival (an international festival of visual theatre, puppetry and object theatre in Brighton) and South East Arts Drama Officer. Leishman was formerly Information Officer at the Museum of Brisbane.
The Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds has a new Head of External Relations, CHRIS GRADY. He ran Musical Theatre Matters, a producing network, and continues to run a programme of courses for writers of Musical Theatre.
ROB NASH is the new chair of the National Association of Music Educators. He is currently manager of the Music Service for Cheshire East Council.
CHRIS ADAMS, KAT HODGKINSON, KARL BEVIS, HANNAH MARSHALL and
LAURA PALMER have all left Youth Music Theatre. Bevis has moved to Bath Festivals, Marshall is now at the BBC and Palmer works for City University.
JANET LEE is the new Editor of The Culture Show. She is currently Editor of the BBC’s Imagine, and was previously Commissioning Editor for Arts at Channel Four.
The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund, the trade charity of the UK film and television industries, has appointed MICHAEL G. WILSON and BARBARA BROCCOLI as Vice Patrons of the Fund. DAVID WILLING has been elected as a Trustee, and ANNE BENNETT has been elected Vice President.
Baker Richards Consulting has appointed CLARE KERRISON as Administrator. She joins from BATS Theatre in New Zealand, where she was Business Manager.
Bea Grist is leaving the Polka Theatre to become Marketing and Communications
Officer at New Perspectives Theatre Company
in Nottingham.