Prudence Skene obituary

Arts administrator who ran Ballet Rambert and oversaw the use of lottery funding for the redevelopment of theatresIn a career that lasted half a century, Prue (Prudence) Skene, who has died aged 81, experienced much change in the role of the arts administrator – from keeping companies going in a rather makeshift manner to a formal career in which fundraising skills and the understanding of governance were crucial. She was an architect of a great deal of this change, becoming one of the bes