The Royal Ballet and Opera continues to lead the way in opera, ballet, music and dance both live on stage and through multiple digital platforms, from live streaming to worldwide cinema screenings.
We are one of the busiest theatres in the world, delivering more than 400 performances each year and our backstage teams are some of the best theatre craftspeople in the world.
We want to encourage fresh, passionate new talent into the building and our apprenticeship scheme plays a big part in that!
An apprenticeship gives you the practical skills and knowledge that will underpin your professional development and access to a network of people who can guide and support you during your career.
The role is on a fixed-term contract for 22 months, full-time (40 hours per week) and based at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
The apprenticeship will be split between the RBO and the College Training Provider. You will study for a Level 3 Content Creator Apprenticeship Standard.
You will earn National Living Wage which will increase by 2.5% after successfully completing the first year. Apprentices are expected to use this to pay for their own travel to work and college. College fees will also be paid by the Royal Ballet and Opera
PROPEL is our 40-day paid work placement programme for early-career creatives working in producing, production and programming
PROPEL has connected emerging talent with top festivals, theatres, and performance companies across the North for over two years. For 2025, we’ve partnered with some exciting new hosts in Bradford and West Yorkshire, offering five hands-on paid placements in production, producing, and programming.
We’re excited to have partnered with Bradford 2025 to offer an early-career Bradford producer a 40-day placement working as an Assistant International Producer in autumn 2025.
Through this placement, you will:
This unique and exciting programme offers the opportunity to participate in The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the world’s largest performing arts platform.
Chichester College Group’s Riverside Theatre Company has established itself at the Fringe Festival since 2017 and we are ready to take this to the next level by forming a dedicated Fringe Company.
Candidates may apply for the performance or production strand of the programme.
Entrance for the performance strand is via audition. Successful candidates will be cast in the commissioned repertory company for our Riverside Theatre Company.
The programme’s practice will emulate that of a professional repertory company. Company members will take part in research and development, skills development workshops, weekly rehearsals with the company directors and performances throughout the year culminating in a 7-day performance run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Start date: 08/09/2025
After an extremely successful first cohort, we are excited to open applications for the second round of our Future Leaders programme.
Future Leaders is Drake Music’s programme to support and promote inclusive, accessible practice in music-making. It aims to improve representation of young Disabled People in the workforce by:
The Philharmonia is proud to launch the first orchestral Arts Management Training Scheme, which is open to everyone and has a No CV application process.
This two-year, full-time Training Scheme offers successful applicants the opportunity to gain an in-depth insight into the operations and functions of a renowned symphony orchestra.
Delivered across four key front-facing departments: Concerts, Marketing & Communications, Learning & Engagement and Development. Trainees complete four six-month rotations, each designed to build core skills, confidence, and knowledge of arts management in the four areas of orchestral operations.
This is a hands-on, structured training programme, ideal for early-career professionals, recent graduates seeking a career in the arts and cultural sector, or those with experience who wish to refocus and shift career.
Programme Features
This is a fully paid training scheme, with a starting salary of £25,500, in line with London Living Wage.
Trinity Laban is striving to achieve excellence beyond tradition, creating a home for performing artists in which boundaries are pushed, collaborations are key, and artistic pioneers are made. We are a world-leading home for students from non-traditional backgrounds with a programme of activity that reaches out to all sections of society, centring the performing arts as a force for cultural and social progress.
We are offering an excellent training opportunity to gain experience in the teaching of contemporary dance technique and gain knowledge and understanding of the demands of working within a higher education context and training students to professional level. The Intern is expected to support the training provision on the dance programmes, assuming responsibility for teaching classes in the event of staff absence. Mentoring and feedback will be provided on your teaching as well as access to internal staff development opportunities.
Additionally, the Intern will support the programmes and contribute to other programme-related activities through practical, technical and administrative support for assessments, performances, student induction, programme marketing and recruitment. Flexible working will be required including evenings and weekends.
As an equal opportunity employer, we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
Join us for an unforgettable summer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The Pleasance Festival Volunteer Programme provides a platform for people of all backgrounds and ages to hone their skills in the creative industries, by playing a key role in the daily operation of the Pleasance’s Fringe venues, at the centre of the largest arts festival in the world.
Volunteers are crucial to the daily operations at Pleasance’s three venues containing 33 performance spaces. Could you be one of them?
Applications for the 2025 festival are now live!
We recruit on a rolling basis which means there is no deadline, but we recommend applying as soon as you can to avoid missing out on your preferred role.
What roles are available?
Technical
Marketing
Guest Services
Founded over 30 years ago, Sir Cameron Mackintosh's Delfont Mackintosh Theatres Ltd owns and operates eight of the most prestigious theatres in London's West End: the Gielgud, Noël Coward, Novello, Sondheim, Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, Victoria Palace and Wyndham's.
Working alongside the in-house technical teams across all eight of our venues you will get the opportunity to be part of the day to day running of our theatres and productions. To learn and apply the skills of a multi-skilled theatre technician, whilst studying a level 3 qualification at Chichester College under the Creative Industries Production Technician Apprenticeship Standard. You will get hands on experience in Stage, Lighting and Video duties with the additional focus of Sound and Automation alongside our incoming productions.
This role will be fixed-term for 24-months and the work is divided between 80% 'on the job' learning in a professional working environment, and 20% college learning and course work which you are given dedicated study time for each week. Typically, at about 18 months in you will enter the assessment process to gain the qualification which we and the college support you with. You can be eligible if you have a Higher Education qualification, such as a degree, but it needs to be in a different discipline.
Uniquely positioned on the seafront, The Cliffs Pavilion in Southend has established itself as one of the South East's leading live entertainment venues, welcoming thousands of customers every year.
Trafalgar Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from people in groups where we are under-represented, for example people with disabilities, from minority ethnic groups, older returners and people who are neurodivergent.
We are curious, courageous and ambitious, empowering people to challenge and innovate in pursuit of excellence.
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