4th March 2013
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Artists’ Management company Askonas Holt has promoted DONAGH COLLINS to become Chief Executive. He was previously Director of Tours and Projects. MARK HILDREW is to become an Executive Director, and PETER BLOOR will retire from the company in October.
Technical equipment supplier Stage Electrics has appointed ALEX CANN to the newly created role of Technical Project Manager for Professional Theatre. He has previously worked in the company’s hire operations department.
26th February 2013
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The RSC has appointed a new Finance Director, STEPHEN EAMES, following the departure of ANDREW PARKER, who has become Treasurer at Somerville College, Oxford. Eames is currently Deputy Finance Director at the Southbank Centre.
VIKKI HEYWOOD is the new Chairman at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. She is also Chair of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
21st February 2013
The team that will lead Aberdeen’s City of Culture 2017 bid include Bid Manager RITA STEPHEN, who has previously been Development Manager for Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Future. EKTOR TSATSOULIS will be the Bid Co-ordinator. He has recently been Executive Manager for the bid by Pafos in Cyprus to be the European Capital of Culture in 2017. RICHARD STEWART, former fundraiser for Great Ormond...
DAME JUDI DENCH has been presented with an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She graduated from Central in 1957 with a first class Degree in Acting, and four acting prizes.
19th February 2013
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Former Labour culture secretary JAMES PURNELL is returning to the BBC in a new role as Director of Strategy and Digital. He left politics in 2010 and is currently a senior producer at production company Rare Day and an adviser at Boston Consulting Group, having previously worked for the BBC from 1995 to 1997 as Head of Corporate Planning.
Chisenhale Gallery has appointed ANDREW HALE, founding member of band Sade, and KEIR MCGUINNESS, a management and art consultant, to its board of trustees.
14th February 2013
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RUPERT GOOLD has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre company, replacing MICHAEL ATTENBOROUGH who stepped down in October last year. Goold has been Artistic Director of Headlong Theatre since 2005.
ED FISHWICK, Managing Director of BlackRock's Risk & Quantitative Analysis Group, is the new Treasurer at the English Folk Dance and Song Society, replacing MIKE WILSON-JONES who has held the post for six years. DOUG OATES, known professionally as BBC Folk Award winner Jim Moray, has joined the Board while ROBBIE THOMAS has stepped down.