Fergus Linehan

Music, theatre, dance, festivals etc. Dubliner in Edinburgh via London and Sydney. Views own.

[Carriageworks @Carriageworks]

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Fergus Linehan as our next CEO. An internationally respected arts leader, Fergus is known for leading the Edinburgh International Festival, Sydney Festival, Vivid Live at the Sydney Opera House. He starts on the 1 June 2023.

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

Delighted to hand over the Festival Director mantle to Nicola Benedetti after this year's season. What an inspired appointment by the festival's trustees!
More here: https://t.co/8GwvEVerR3

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

710 days ago we closed the 2019 Festival. Tonight, almost two years later, audiences & artists are back together as we launch the 2021 season. We will always be grateful to those whose creativity, hard work & encouragement got us back onstage. Thank you.
https://t.co/1zEo621SW7

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

Thanks to the artists, supporters and our amazing festival team for giving us a 2021 Edinburgh International Festival programme. Live and streamed performances @edintfest 7 - 29 August Full details https://t.co/drip2bIv98 https://t.co/Ce2gzMToLW

[Edinburgh International Festival @edintfest]

The 2021 Edinburgh International Festival programme is here 🎉

Welcome back to live performance, welcome back to your Festival. Discover our artists & performances now: https://t.co/i57h87Jy3k

Tickets on sale from 11 June & we’ll see you live, outdoors & online this August!

[Sophie Linehan @sosolouise]

So thrilled our short film has been selected for @CSIFFILM1 in South Carolina 🤩

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

https://t.co/JTOYaZ9JMX

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

Mogwai have been good to us round @edintfest Atomic at The Playhouse, Deep Time Opening Event in 2016 and blistering shows @LeithTheatre for Light on the Shore. Brilliant news here. https://t.co/XmuIu4X8IB

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

Looking forward to @manipulatefest under the new directorship of @dawn_rebecca https://t.co/wW75BjWDGg

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

Please spread the news about this project that @edintfest is working on with @theskinnymag to support and promote new writing about the performing arts.

[The Skinny @theskinnymag]

📯 OPPORTUNITY ALERT 📯

We've teamed up with @Edintfest for a new longform writing series centred around the arts in Scotland

We're looking for pitches from Scotland-based early career writers on theatre, music, performance + dance

DETAILS HERE: https://t.co/ftVKSeotJn [1/6]

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

@ZinnieH If your missing it, I can drop a 3 year old around to you within the hour. I’ll collect him Monday.

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

Didn't realise Other Music had shut down. 😢 Spent obscene amounts of money there through the 00s. https://t.co/zBflPwPCzo

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

@FDalgetty The guys did a brilliant job. We're just really, really want to put some shows on for the students now. Come on the vaccine!!

[Edinburgh International Festival @edintfest]

We're delighted that our performance of Götterdämmerung with Sir Andrew Davis and @RSNO from the 2019 International Festival has been nominated for this year's Classical Music Award at the South Bank #SkyArts Awards 🎉

📷 Ryan Buchanan

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

Tonight at 8pm join us for the premiere of 'Lament for Sheku Bayoh' by @HanLavery
@NTSonline @lyceumtheatre @edintfest
https://t.co/hWiSTKxXa1

Photo @mihaelabodlovic

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

@DavieGreig "The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

Huge congrats to the brother @hlinehan on Inside Politics winning Best Podcast at #journoawards2020

[Core @core_irl]

Congrats to @irishtimesaudio Inside Politics - announced by our own @hannah_lou as the Best Podcast at the #journoawards2020

👏 @hlinehan @DecConlon @shoesanne @JR_JennyR @PatLeahyIT & all involved

[Kevin Williamson @williamsonkev]

PUSH THE BOAT OUT is a new festival launched today - Norman MacCaig's bday - by @jennyniv & myself. Edinburgh's 1st ever bespoke International Poetry Festival to be held over 4 days at @summerhall in Oct 2021. Details follow @PTBOpoetry & our new website: https://t.co/eBMo6fAwTp

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

What a delight to wake up to a fully formed and beautifully curated festival programme. Thanks and congratulations to all @sydney_festival https://t.co/x95eu503op

[Lorne Primary School @LorneSchool]

#LorneP1 had an amazing time creating their own dances to help learn about counting amounts! Thank you @edinfest for our amazing new resource! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #LorneStage

[Fergus Linehan @FergusLinehan]

@DavieGreig @same_woods Looks like the Bouffes du Nord! Nice.