Business reporter at The Independent, Nick Clark is to become its arts correspondent following the merger of its business desks with sister papers the Independent on Sunday and London Evening Standard.
The first ever composer in residence at Scottish Opera will be GARETH WILLIAMS. The two-year post will sit within the Company’s Emerging Artists Programme, which aims to provide development opportunities for up-and-coming artists.
Nine new members have been appointed to sit on Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru’s board for the next three years: CATRIN BEARD, a translator and arts commentator; RHYS BEVAN, Operations Manager for Avanti television company; ARWEL EDWARDS, business man and lawyer; CARYS EDWARDS, Head of Drama Ysgol Gyfun Maes yr Yrfa and chair of the Drama panels of the Urdd and National Eisteddfod of Wales; SIONED GWYN, Communications Officer for S4C; MABON AP GWYFOR, Office Manager and Researcher for AM Llyr Huws Gruffydd; DAZ JAMES, technical lecturer at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama; NON TUDUR, Communications Manager for the Urdd National Eisteddfod and lawyer SION WILLIAMS.
Recent appointments at the UK Centre for Carnival Arts include PATRICIA DIXON as Head of Learning and Participation and TOLA DABIRI as Project Manager for the Carnival Archive Project.
NATHAN CURRY has become Associate Director of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival and will work alongside Artistic Director BRADLEY HEMMINGS in the delivery of next year’s Festival. He was formerly Associate Director of The Bush Theatre and he continues in his role as Artistic Director of tangled feet theatre company.
INDHU RUBASINGHAM will become Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre in May 2012, taking over from NICOLAS KENT, who will have held the position for 28 years. She has been involved with the Tricycle for 15 years.
HARPER RAY has left The Point, Eastleigh and has moved to Shakespeare’s Globe, London, where he has taken up the newly created position of Digital Content Manager.
CRAIG HASSALL, Managing Director of English National Ballet (ENB), is leaving to join Raymond Gubbay Limited as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to working at ENB he was Deputy General Manager at the Sydney Theatre Company.
LIZ MORAN (pictured), previously at the macrobert arts centre, is taking over from interim Commercial Manager MARY ANN LE LEAN at the Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury.
The Actors Centre has announced new joint Chairs of its Board, actor and director PAUL CLAYTON and actor HARRIET THORPE. A new Chief Executive, LOUISE COLES, who was most recently Chief Executive of the Blue Room Theatre in Perth, Western Australia, will lead on the next phase of the organisation’s growth.
BILL ARMITAGE has joined DanceEast as its new General Manager. Prior to this he was Project Manager for mPOWER, a programme of artistic activity, skills and knowledge development for young people in Scotland. Also Joining DanceEast as its Head of Development is LUCY TAYLOR, a former fundraising consultant from the charitable sector.