6th February 2014
Children’s theatre Director TONY GRAHAM will be joining the team at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre as Creative Associate. Writer ALAN POLLOCK has joined the Board.
30th January 2014
20 Stories High has appointed YVONNE HEPBURN-FOSTER as the new Chair of its Board of Trustees. She is the Fundraising Manager at George House Trust in Manchester and was previously Grants, Trusts & Foundations Fundraising Manager at OnSide Youth Zones.
Morris Hargreaves McIntyre has appointed TONY HILL, formerly Director of MOSI (Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry) as the company’s first Managing Director, while the newly created role of Head of Finance has been filled by JANET LEIGH, also previously from MOSI. The company has also appointed two new Consultants, SIAN KNIGHT and ANNA VAUGHAN.
The first Director of the Atkinson, an integrated cultural venue in Southport, is EMMA ANDERSON, who was previously a senior manager at Manchester City Art Galleries.
ANGELA DIXON has been appointed as the Director of Saffron Hall Trust from March 2014. She will be leaving her role as Head of Music at the Barbican.
Artist JEREMY DELLER is the new Chair of Artangel, where he has been a Board member since 2005. The author and legal advisor DANIEL MCCLEAN has joined the Board as a Trustee.
OLIVER JONES is the new Director of Creativity Works. He was previously Creative Learning Manager at Cambridge Junction and formerly Associate Director of Trestle Theatre Company.
English National Opera’s (ENO) Music Director EDWARD GARDNER will leave his role at the end of the 2014/15 season to take up his new appointment as Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. He will be succeeded by MARK WIGGLESWORTH, who takes up the ENO baton in September 2015.