Tara Arts announces new Artistic Director and joint CEO

ABDUL SHAYEK, Artistic Director & CEO of Cardiff-based international theatre company Fio, has been appointed as the new Artistic Director & Joint CEO of Tara Arts. A Clore Cultural Leadership Fellow, he is a member of the British Council's Arts and Creative Economy Advisory Group, vice chair of the National Alliance for Arts in the Criminal Justice System and a trustee of mid-Wales dance company Impelo and No Fit State Circus. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of East London.