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.

• Through The Producer Programme with Bridge The Gap we aim to support 10 emerging producers giving them the skills they need to transition into commercial theatre producing through;
  • Monthly, bespoke workshops on commercial theatre producing
  • A mentor (a commercial producer)
  • Personal coaching sessions
  • Regular catch ups with your peers and networking opportunities
  • A place on the Stage One workshops
  • Access to the BTG Kick Start Grant (up to £5,000)
  • Tickets to commercial shows

Brought to you by Get Into Theatre and theatre works!, Elevate Your Drama Curriculum - Teaching Backstage Roles is designed to provide teachers with practical approaches and ready-to-use resources for teaching backstage roles and theatre design. 

Participants should expect:

• Engaging speakers, from Get into Theatre & theatre works!, providing inspiration and tried-and-tested approaches for teaching backstage roles. 
• A downloadable, digital Project Mat, a ready-to-use resource for Years 9 & 10, to use as a Summer Term scheme of work. 
• Up to date and Informed knowledge on ways to embed the teaching of backstage roles and theatre design within the secondary drama curriculum, with limited resources. 
• Gain confidence in exploring backstage roles with students 14-16 years.
• Access to a teacher's resources space.
• A chance to network with educators across the country and share best practice.

We look forward to welcoming you for this unique opportunity to boost your knowledge and resources around backstage roles and connect with drama educators nationwide, in this one-off webinar on Thursday 15 May 4-5pm. 

Led by Dannielle "Rhimes" Lecointe (ZooNation, Diversity, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), the interactive session includes:

• Practical tools for choreography
• Movement vocabulary
• Adaptions for different age groups
• Gaining a deeper understanding of Hip-Hop’s cultural and artistic roots
• Tips for musicality

Whether you’re new to the style or looking to enhance your existing knowledge, this session will provide inspiration, insight, and practical applications for your classes.

Date: 7 May 2025

Start time: 10.30am - 12pm

This fund supports individual creative and cultural practitioners to focus on their development and take them to the next stage of their practice. 

This fund is all about you and your development.

You can apply for development activities related to our supported disciplines. For example: 

• building new networks​
• experimenting with new collaborators or partners ​
• international travel to explore your practice​
• professional development activities, such as
  • training
  • working with mentors ​
• research and development time to explore your practice and take risks

We don’t normally support:

• activity that focuses on engaging people and communities in the short-term
• project-based activity where there’s no clear step change in your practice

Can I get support to apply?

Yes, access support is available to help remove barriers.

We provide support including alternative versions of the Guidance for applicants or paying for a support worker.

Get discounted tickets for the UK tour of the Edinburgh Fringe smash-hit …Earnest?

Say It Again, Sorry? presents a one-of-a-kind, different-every-night comedy sensation, perfect for fans of The Play That Goes Wrong and Noises Off!

When a traditional production of Oscar Wilde’s classic play gets underway, everything seems to be going perfectly to plan… that is, until the lead actor fails to arrive on cue and an audience member is chosen to star in the show.

You might think you know this chaotic story of love, mistaken identity and double-lives, but you have never seen it like this before. Filled with wicked Wildean wit and bursting with Bunburying, join us for a hilarious and unpredictable twist on the world’s favourite comedy classic.

Log in to access *£10 tickets (by either using the promo code or clicking the link) for the following venues:

*£10 price is ticket price only, venue and booking fees may be applicable
Available online via venue’s website using link or discount code
Subject to availability

28-30 April: Loughborough Town Hall
2 May: New Victoria Theatre Woking
7-8 May: Tyne Theatre & Opera House
9-10 May: King's Theatre Glasgow
12 May: Lyceum Theatre Crewe
17 May: New Alexandra Theatre
20-21 May: Sheffield Crucible
17 May: New Alexandra Theatre
20-21 May: Sheffield Crucible
22-23 May: Wycombe Swan
24-25 May Warwick Arts Centre
31 May: Reading Arts Hexagon
4-5 June: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
6-7 June: Mercury Theatre Colchester
9 June: Derngate Northampton
10-11 June: Everyman Theatre Cheltenham
12-14 June: Richmond Theatre

Stagetext is going to be 25 in 2025! We are looking to commission a UK based visual artist to create an artwork celebrating our 25th anniversary

Deadline for applications: 9am, Thursday 29th May 2025.

Stagetext is looking to commission a UK based visual artist to create a replicable and unique piece of artwork celebrating our 25th anniversary, marking a quarter of century of advocacy and support in opening up arts and culture to deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences.

The commissioned work should be an original piece made by the artist that conveys the value of having access to arts and culture such as theatre, that would otherwise be denied if it wasn’t for theatre captioning and live subtitles provided by Stagetext.

The work should focus on celebrating the uplifting experience of meaningful and rich
connection to culture through text based deaf access.

We are seeking a piece of work that can be readily wall mounted or hung and reproduced as prints, postcards, tote bags and t-shirts, with the original work to be sold at auction to raise funds and profile for our anniversary campaign. For this reason, we are not seeking electronic/digital or 3D/sculptural works.

The selected artist will receive a £2,000 commissioning fee (payable in three mutually agreed instalments) for which to create the original piece of art, plus access and travel expenses