The Stage

Nash quits Young Vic post after three months

Published Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 16:20 by Alistair Smith

Young Vic executive director Gregory Nash has quit only three months after joining the London producing venue.

In a move that makes Nash’s tenure at the Young Vic one of the shortest ever for a senior manager at a major UK theatre, last month he and artistic director David Lan agreed “mutually and amicably” that Nash would leave the venue after serving only around half of his probationary period.

Nash had previously served as director of the Point in Eastleigh, before being chosen to replace Kevin Fitzmaurice at the Young Vic in July last year, when Fitzmaurice left to take up the role of producer at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Nash joined the theatre in October, but also continued to oversee the redevelopment of a new studio space at the Point up to its opening in November.

“When David Lan invited me to join the Young Vic, we set out to work together in a way that was new for both of us and characteristically ambitious for the company,” explained Nash. “Three months in, we have come to the conclusion that we have not established the kind of partnership we had hoped to and that the theatre needs a different balance of leadership in order to achieve its exciting plans.

“So we have agreed, mutually and amicably, to part company. I have really enjoyed being at the Young Vic. It’s a great theatre and I have enormous admiration for the people that work there.”

Young Vic finance director Lucy Woollatt is acting as interim executive director and the theatre will this week begin advertising for a replacement. The Young Vic Theatre reopened in 2006, following a £12.5 million redevelopment. Since then, it has staged shows including Annie Get Your Gun and Kafka’s Monkey. It is one of the London’s leading producing venues and receives annual funding in excess of £1.5 million from Arts Council England.