Theatre503 welcomes new trustees as Chair steps down

Theatre503 has named five new trustees and an associate trustee who will be joining its board.

New members include PIPPA HILL, Head of New Work at the Royal Shakespeare Company, KANDY ROHMAN, an actor, writer and producer; and JOSHUA CHUA, Head of Trusts and Grants at Donmar Warehouse.

Joining them are NAOMI KERBEL, Communications Director for SEC Newgate and a former broadcast journalist; CERIAN WALSH, former innvestment banker and Commercial Director at IWA; and TIAN BROWN-SAMPSON, a director, producer and writer.

The appointments come as Chair ERICA WHYMAN has announced she is stepping down after a decade in the role.

Whyman said she was delighted at the appointment of Theatre503's "wonderful new trustees" following a very competitive process.

"They will be invaluable as Theatre503 enters a period of growth and of innovation. They will provide very strong and flexible foundations for a new chair to lead this mighty organisation into its next iteration," she continued.

Adding that serving as Chair had been "a privilege and a pleasure", Whyman said: "[It] has kept me close to and inspired by artists at the very beginning of their career and able to engage in a wide-ranging and courageous dialogue about the future of playwriting, about how we become a truly inclusive industry, and about how we imagine new business models and new ways of working so that theatre can thrive."