Changing Faces

Theatre Projects Consultants has announced that leadership and ownership of the firm has been transferred to a new team in the UK, led by David Staples (pictured), Alan Russell, Jerry Godden, Mark Stroomer, Marion Daehms and Andrew De Rosa. Founder Richard Pilbrow will continue as Chairman Emeritus, and Iain Mackintosh, Lou Fleming and Anthony Field are retiring.

Pax Nindi , Senior Carnival Officer at Arts Council England, has left to resume work as a practising artist in music, film making and digital arts, and as a consultant in carnival, circus, street arts and festivals.

Samantha Scott is leaving her role as Marketing Manager of Forced Entertainment to take up the new post of Marketing Manager at Artsadmin. She will be replaced by Rachel Thorne, who was previously Marketing and Press Officer at DanceEast.

Creative arts charity, Create, has announced the appointment of two new trustees: Tim Robertson was recently appointed Director of the Koestler Trust for arts in prisons and John McCalla is a Senior Manager at KPMG.

Rob McLoughlin has been appointed as the new Culture Development Officer for the States of Jersey, and will take up his post in September. He joined the Jersey Arts Centre as Director in 1987 and was appointed Chief Officer in the Bailiffs chamber in March 2001.

Jake Gilmore, formerly the Marketing Manager at the St George’s Bristol Concert Venue, has been appointed as the Press and Public Affairs Officer for the Arts & Humanities Research Council.

Rachael Easton (pictured) is joining Blackbaud Ticketing after previous roles at The Phone Room and at Tickets.com where she was UK Sales Manager. Lara Durham is leaving Jacksons Lane Arts Centre to join the support and training team.

Eastern Orchestral Board has appointed Rachel Selvedge, previously Head of Community and Education for the Philharmonia Orchestra, as Orchestral Project Officer for Suffolk.

Professor Sara Selwood, Head of the Department of Cultural Policy and Management at the School of Arts, City University, has been reappointed to the Board of the National Portrait Gallery.

The trustees of the Beyeler Foundation have elected Samuel Keller, Head of Art Basel, as the future Head of the Foundation.

Ballerina Sylvie Guillem, a Guest Principal at The Royal Ballet since 1988, has been appointed as an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells.

Sarah Maclennan has left her role at Liverpool John Moores University to join Dead Good Poets Society as part-time Co-ordinator.

Adam Buss, Press Officer at Derby Playhouse, is moving to Q Arts and Quad (Derby) as the Marketing Officer. Fiona Wallace is the new press contact at Derby Playhouse.

inIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts) has announced three new appointments in the lead up to the opening of its new arts venue, Rivington Place. Maxine Miller (pictured), Senior Librarian at London Metropolitan Archives, is joining as Library/Information Manager, and Rebecca Wilson (pictured), Production Editor for Sage Publications, will be Publications Co-ordinator. Sophie Howarth, Curator of Public Programmes at Tate Modern, will join in September as Head of Education and Events.

Peter Winsor is joining MDA (formerly the Museum Documentation Association) as Project Director for Collections Link, the national collections management advisory service. He was previously Senior Collections Adviser at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.

The Courtyard, Herefordshires Centre for the Arts, has appointed Alex Green, previously at the Worcester Swan theatre, as Operations Manager. Amy Morgan is the new Education and Outreach Manager; Beth Goldsworthy has joined as Deputy House Manager; Beth Smallwood has been promoted to Deputy Box Office Manager; and Emily Davies has been made Trainee Marketing Assistant.

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