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MICKLEM joins Jubb as BAC's new co-head
17-Apr-2008David Micklem has joined David Jubb as co-artistic director of BAC. In a statement, also announcing that BAC has now signed a 125 year lease with Wandsworth Council on Battersea Town Hall, thereby securing its future, the theatre said: ‘Sharing the responsibilities of artistic director and chief executive will allow BAC to continue to develop and support the country’s most exciting artists while, with Haworth Tompkins, taking forward radical plans for the development of the building.'
Jubb said: ‘I am thrilled to welcome David Micklem to BAC as Joint Artistic Director. I think David and I will make a dynamic partnership as two producers heading up one of the UK’s most influential theatres. Our plans for the future include a series of major Playground productions where we 'scratch' or try-out different spaces across the town hall’s one acre site, as well as further 'playgrounding' throughout the year at BAC. Our pioneering partnership with Haworth Tompkins Architects aims to create a 21st century performance space in a 19th century town hall, producing a world-class home for new theatre over a number of years while never closing the building to audiences and using our playground process to place artists and audiences at the heart of the design process.’ Micklem said: ‘I am delighted to be joining David Jubb to lead BAC through an exciting period of growth and change. We make a strong team and together I believe we can deliver a bold and ambitious new vision for this much loved organisation. I have long felt that BAC is one of the most important theatres in the UK and I will relish the opportunity to be at the helm of such a dynamic team of people.’
Micklem stood in for Rosie Hunter as executive director while she was on maternity leave, bringing six years experience as senior theatre strategy officer at Arts Council England; he was associate producer for Artichoke on The Sultan's Elephant and led international debate on the role of contemporary arts circus; he spent five years prior to that as general manager of the Chelsea Theatre.
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