29th February 2024
DEVYANI SALTZMAN has been appointed as the Barbican's new Director for Arts and Participation.
Saltzman is a Canadian writer, curator, public thinker and cultural leader with over fifteen years' experience in cultural institutions. She will take up her new role in early July.
Working with the Barbican’s leadership team – across Cinema, Creative Collaboration, Immersive, Music, Theatre & Dance and Visual Arts -...
Afro Queer artist and filmmaker TOPHER CAMPBELL has joined the UK’s longest running LGBTQIA+ arts and culture festival, Homotopia, based in Liverpool, as its new Director and CEO.
The former artistic director and CEO of The Red Room Film and Theatre Company, and the co-founder of the ruckus! Archive, Campbell has a strong background in curating and commissioning new work and has recently been commissioned to...
MIRANDA CROMWELL and HANNAH JOSS have been named as Associate Directors at Chichester Festival Theatre.
An award-winning director, Cromwell has directed shows at various theatres including the Olivier, the Young Vic and the Kiln in London, and Manchester Royal Exchange and Nottingham Playhouse. At Chichester she will work with the acting and creative companies.
Joss's new role will focus on ...
27th February 2024
Four new trustees have been appointed to Equity's board, the union for performers and stage managers.
Taking up their posts this month are actors IMELDA STAUNTON and ADRIAN LESTER, comedian ALAN DAVIES and singer RUBY TURNER
They join current trustees Dame JUDI DENCH and JOHNNY WORTHY.
Equity’s trustees do not make investment...
26th February 2024
HELEN MARRIAGE, Founder and Artistic Director of creative company Artichoke, has been appointed as Chair of arts organisation IOU.
Based in Halifax, IOU is a Creation Centre with over 10,000 square feet of studio, workshop and gallery space providing opportunities for artists and participants to co-create and produce artworks and interdisciplinary productions in the heart of Calderdale.
Marriage will be joined on...
MELANIE LEWIS will join the Association for Cultural Enterprises in March as Chair.
She takes over from CAROLINE BROWN, who has served for eight years as Chair at the Investment Principles Support Organisation.
Since September 2021, Lewis has been Chief Executive of Shakespeare North Playhouse and a member of the newly formed Liverpool City Region Business and Enterprise Board. She was previously...
22nd February 2024
Royal Ballet Principal dancer ALEXANDER CAMPBELL will be the new Artistic Director at the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), it has been announced.
Succeeding RAD's previous Artistic Director, GERARD CHARLES, who retired last year, Australian-born Campbell will join in April after over a decade at The Royal Ballet.
Campbell said RAD was formative in his training and "has the power to shape how people...
21st February 2024
EMMA NICOLSON is to take up the role of Head of Visual Arts at Creative Scotland.
Nicolson will join the funding body in May, following the early retirement of her predecessor, AMANDA CATTO, in December 2023.
Currently Head of Arts at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Nicolson was previously Founding Director at ATLAS Arts on the Isle of Skye, Senior Education and Access Manager at Museum of...
Co-founder and Chief Executive of Threshold Studios UZMA JOHAL has announced she will depart the organisation to take up a new role at Counterculture.
SAMANTHA LINDLEY will step up from Co-Director to lead the digital placemaking agency.
Lindley first joined Threshold in 2003 as Production Co-ordinator. She is the Festival Director for Threshold’s flagship project, Frequency International Festival...
IAIN GOOSEY has been appointed as Executive Director of Kiln Theatre to work alongside recently appointed Artistic Director and CEO AMIT SHARMA.
Goosey is currently Director of Producing and Planning at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. He will take up his new role at the end of May 2024.
At the Lyric, he produced many successful productions, including Accidental Death of an Anarchist (recently running...