KAREN SIMPSON will be the new Director of Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds. She comes to the role having run her own production company and has previously worked as a Creative Director with Sheffield Theatres, and Artistic and Executive Director with the Oxfordshire Theatre Company.
9th August 2013
Director of Marketing at Rambert, CRAIG TITLEY is moving on after 7 years to become Chief Executive of music charity Future Talent. He will be replaced by TIM WOOD, currently Communications Director at The Place, who is also Vice Chair of the Arts Marketing Association.
JEN WALKE joins Activate Performing Arts Festival as a Producer, from London’s SPILL Festival of Performance where she was General Manager.
The new Associate Director of Nottingham Playhouse is FIONA BUFFINI. She is a former Associate Director at the National Theatre.
Currently Head of Museums and Collections for Glasgow Life, DR ELLEN McADAM has been announced as the new Director of Birmingham Museums Trust.
29th July 2013
The new Director of Development and External Affairs at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London is AMANDA JONES. She has previously worked as Head of Press for the Royal Opera House and Director of Arts and Heritage for the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
ABRAHAM THOMAS will be the next Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum. He was previously Curator of Designs at The Victoria and Albert Museum.
LORETTA TOMASI has announced that she will step down from her position of Chief Executive of English National Opera (ENO) at the end of 2013, after ten years with the company.
17th July 2013
Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, DOMINIC DROMGOOLE, has announced he is stepping down in April 2016.
Ex-Director of the Cultural Olympiad, RUTH MACKENZIE, has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of Holland Festival. She takes over from PIERRE AUDI, who will step down after the 2014 festival, following a decade in the post.