We are excited to announce we are now looking for someone to join our team on a 12 month paid traineeship in the Access team. Supporting our vision to make the creative industries a more diverse and inclusive place, we need an exceptional recruitment team to support candidates to reach their full potential. Would you like to contribute?
The trainee will learn about and get experience in all the different areas of the Access team, with a focus on our recruitment, candidate engagement and opportunities board activities. Through hands-on experience in our friendly and collaborative team, you'll gain valuable insight and skills related to running recruitment processes, managing job listings and setting up interviews and online webinars.
Traverse Theatre will be holding Scottish Casting Network workshops on Monday, 23 June 2025
The workshops will be held in Traverse 1, Traverse Theatre. To apply to be part of one of the workshops please complete the Google Form application before 5pm on Sunday, 11 May 2025.
There are 48 places across three sessions on the day. All applicants will be notified if they have a space or not by Friday, 23 May 2025.
Applications are open for all actors with a base in Scotland. Attending legacy Scottish Casting Workshops prior to 2025 does not preclude you from applying to the Scottish Casting Network workshops.
For actors from the d/Deaf community: please ensure you let us know if you require a BSL interpreter and if you would prefer to perform in English or in BSL.
For actors with specific access requirements, please ensure the access requirements section is completed.
The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre is looking for adults who are part of the Global Majority to take part in a Creative Response Project to Marriage Material.
Over 3 weeks, led by Neetu Singh, you will creatively explore the themes of our upcoming main house show, Marriage Material, by Gupreet Kaur Bhatti. You will work as a company to create and perform a brand new show in the Lyric Hammersmith Studio on Friday 27 June 2025 for an invited audience!
This is open to all levels of abilities and no previous performance or theatre experience is required. We particularly encourage applicants from a South Asian heritage, or who are neuro divergent, d/Deaf, disabled, part of the LGBTQ+ community, those from low-income households, those in care, are care leavers, or are carers.
Applications are now open for the 2025-26 cohort of the Bridge the Gap Producer Programme!
Apply to be one of 10 emerging producers from underrepresented backgrounds to take part in this year long development programme; gaining skills in commercial producing through monthly workshops, a mentor, coaching sessions, tickets to shows, access to grants and more!
Deadline: 12 noon on Friday 9 May
Apply online via our website.
Not sure if it's for you? Find out some more info in our Should I Apply? guide.
Stage One created Bridge the Gap to diversify the current field of commercial theatre producers and therefore strongly encourages individuals from underrepresented backgrounds and outside of London to apply. We want to support people from a Global Majority background, who identify as working class or from a lower socio-economic background, are LGBTQIA+, those that have a disability and/or are neurodivergent and/or those from a culturally or religiously Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim or Sikh background.
If you're starting university in 2025/26, you could be eligible for our new bursary to help cover the cost of student essentials like a laptop, bedding, kitchenware and more
The Save the Student Bursary is a set amount of £750, with six awards up for grabs.
The bursary will be paid through JS Group's Aspire service, a tool used by tens of thousands of students at dozens of UK universities, allowing the safe and secure delivery of funds.
This money is intended to help you pay for anything you might need when you start university. This could include:
We look forward to receiving your application!
Every year, we run courses around the UK for young people ages 14 to 25 who want to become members of the National Youth Theatre.
Entry to these courses is via audition only, and auditions are held between October 2024 and March 2025. There are three different routes you can take to audition, depending on where you’re based and how much availability you have:
You can only audition via one route each year, so have a read through each one before applying to decide which option works best for you.
Access to Work can help you get or stay in work if you have a physical or mental health condition or disability.
The support you get will depend on your needs. Through Access to Work, you can apply for:
Creative Youth Network (CYN) is committed to providing young people with new and exciting opportunities to broaden their skills and prepare them for life as an adult.
Creative Youth Network is a growing charity working with young people across the West of England. By building long lasting relationships, offering courses, support, drop ins and a range of arts and performance programmes we aim to help vulnerable young people reach their full potential.
Creative Youth Network also owns and manages a number of properties where we run our youth services, such as youth clubs and events. Trustees are volunteers with a passion for young people. The trustee role is unpaid, but the money you spend on travelling to meetings can be claimed and reimbursed. A full induction will be provided, and trustees are expected to attend around 7 meetings a year along with a half day strategic planning session.
Energy Train is a free 6-week course for people aged 15+ and living with a disability. Hosted at the Millennium Forum, you will learn DJ skills from Oliver Brown and Silver Fox Entertainment DJ Compere Kevin Boyle.
Please email Lisa for more information.
