Bristol Old Vic are partnering with Good Chance Theatre to offer an exciting new opportunity for a producer with experience of forced displacement to join our team for five months.
ABOUT THE ENGAGEMENT DEPARTMENT AND STAGE DOOR:
Bristol Old Vic's Engagement department encompasses Young Company; one of the largest regional youth theatres in the UK, work with community groups and schools, training projects for young artists across the South West and co-created heritage projects.
Stage Door is Good Chance Theatre’s flagship programme dedicated to creating bespoke paid trainee opportunities for creatives from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds. The programme celebrates and nurtures creative industry professionals while addressing the imbalance of opportunities available to people who have been displaced.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
To produce the Connections Festival 2027 in collaboration with the Engagement Team.
National Theatre Connections is the National Theatre’s annual, nationwide youth theatre festival and comprises of venues all over the country hosting Youth theatre productions of scripts written specifically for young people. Bristol Old Vic has been a partner venue for the festival for over 13 years and will host 8 youth theatre productions over a week in March 2027.
INTERVIEWS:
Interview date: 14th October 2026 at Bristol Old Vic Theatre
APPLICATION:
To apply, please submit the following materials to: HR@bristololdvic.org.uk
DEADLINE: 1 Oct 2026, 12:00 (midday)
For more information, click the Opportunity Info link below!
Almeida Discourse is a free theatre review group for students aged 14-18 who live or study in Islington.
For anyone curious about theatre beyond performing, studying GCSE Drama or English, or keen to see Almeida shows for free, meet the creatives behind them, and get stuck in to unpacking the play.
Members are given an Almeida Discourse Collective card which gets them:
Key Dates:
All sessions will include free food and drink
If you have any questions about your application, please email schools@almeida.co.uk
For more information and to apply, click the Opportunity Info link below!
Applications are now open for Sprint Festival 2027.
FESTIVAL OVERVIEW:
The most intense hit you’ll find, anywhere in the UK, of ambitious new performance: CPT’s annual SPRINT festival is back! Every Spring, we throw open our doors to artists at the very start of their careers making bold and brand new work. (And "early career" hasn't got anything to do with age - whether you're 18 or 108, we want to hear from you). For four weeks, that work populates our stage, twisting theatre into new shapes and fashioning fantastic experiences for audiences.
In years gone by, SPRINT has showcased early work by artists including Sh!t Theatre, Vijay Patel, Liv Ello, Frankie Thompson, Nina Bowers and more. If you’ve got a current, compelling and cutting-edge performance project brewing, one that needs support or a showcase to be its best self, let us know. We’d love to hear from you.
CALLOUT FOR ARTISTS:
The majority of programming slots will be for work that is finished and performance-ready by March 2026. We will also consider works-in-progress and ‘scratch’ performances.
We welcome and encourage applications from artists from a socio-economic background under-represented in the arts; and/or who identify as:
*This includes people of Black Caribbean, Black African, South Asian, East Asian, South East Asian, Middle Eastern, Arab, Latinx, Jewish, Romany and Irish Traveller heritage.
WHAT WE ARE AND AREN'T LOOKING FOR:
We want: Performance the likes of which we’ve never seen before. New shows, new ways of making theatre, new experiences for audiences.
We don’t want: Revivals of classic plays; academic projects; dance (as opposed to dance-theatre). Much as we love all that stuff, it’s not what Sprint exists to support and stage.
WHAT WE PROVIDE:
The CPT arrangement with SPRINT artists is flexible according to the needs of each show, but our default offer in 2027 is:
DEADLINE: Midday 23 September
For more information and to apply, click the Opportunity Info link below!
