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Dateline: 1st July, 2005
New SOLT President Rosemary Squire, co-founder and executive director of Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), has been appointed president of the Society of London Theatre (SOLT), in succession to Sir Steven Waley Cohen. She has been a member of the SOLT management board for five years and is alsoon the boards of the Donmar Warehouse, Dance Umbrella and Stage One. She will continue with her other work, including the day to day running of ATG, whilst taking over the presidency of SOLT. She is only the second woman president since the organisation was founded in 1907 by Sir Charles Wyndham (of Wyndham's Theatre fame). SOLT is the trade organisation for the producers, managers and owners of the major commercial and publicly-funded theatres in central London. Co-founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire in 1992, the Ambassador Theatre Group is currently the second biggest theatre group in the West End and separately, the second biggest in the UK regions, with a total of 24 venues. Its West End theatres are Albery, Comedy, Donmar Warehouse, Duke of York's, Fortune, New Ambassadors, Phoenix, Piccadilly, Playhouse (co-ownership and management of), Wyndham's and the new Trafalgar Studios. In the regions it owns, among others, the Theatre Royal, Brighton; the Victoria Concert Hall, Stoke-on-Trent; the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent; Milton Keynes Theatre; the Churchill Theatre in Bromley; Richmond Theatre, Surrey; the King's Theatre in Glasgow; the New Wimbledon Theatre and the New Wimbledon Studio, London and the Theatre Royal Glasgow. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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