New Chair announced at Leeds Playhouse

BBC England’s Head of North, ROZINA BREEN, will be the new Chair at Leeds Playhouse. Previously Head of News for BBC 5 live, she spent over a decade as a journalist with BBC Current Affairs Radio, prior to which she was a Digital Editor for the BBC World Service. She succeeds Sir Rodney Brooke, who steps down after ten years as Chair. Breen will work with Vice Chair NEIL ADLEMAN, a Partner at law firm Harbottle & Lewis where he heads the firm’s theatre group. He was previously a Trustee and then Chair of Sheffield Theatres Trust until 2015, before becoming a Trustee at Leeds Playhouse in 2016.