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Tommi Bryson

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She / her. Views own. idiot (fun kind), theatremaker, internationally acclaimed penguin. Talent Development at Sheffield Theatres.

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Chronic Insanity @chronicinsanity.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We are incredibly excited to announce that @artscouncilengland.bsky.social have awarded us funding for a new project! We’re partnering with the @vipstudio.bsky.social to develop three new digital theatre pieces in November-December this year, with details of their release to be announced soon (1/4)
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Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme @rtyds.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Our residencies are back! We've partnered with Bristol Old Vic, Leeds Playhouse & @liveveryplay.bsky.social for our Fair Play Associate Artistic Director Residency - paid opportunities for 3 mid-career working class directors. Deadline: 18 Sep, 10am Online Q&A: 1 Sep, 4pm More info: bit.ly/45a8P0V
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Associate Artistic Director Residency (artists page) - Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme - RTYDS
Fair Play Associate Artistic Director 2026-2027 RTYDS is partnering with three building-based theatre companies (outside of London) to each host a mid-career director or theatre maker from a working c...
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Chronic Insanity @chronicinsanity.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Our third interactive digital production, GIGS by Doug Deans, is available now on FableMosh! GIGS is a gig theatre monologue following the relationship of a couple through the ups and downs of loud nights out and quiet days in. Choose your own performers and enjoy! fablemosh.vhx.tv/products/gigs
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GIGS
A gig theatre monologue backed by pounding original music that follows the relationship of a couple who love going to see live music. But with gigs being the only thing really keeping them together, w...
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Nottingham Playhouse @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Directors! We’ve extended the applications deadline for our FREE masterclass with Artistic Director, Adam Penford. You’ve only got until 12 noon on Wed 2 July to apply, so be quick! Find out more: nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/maste...
Adam Penford and a large group of people all stood smiling in the Neville Studio.
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Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Talent Development at Sheffield Theatres? I sure hope it does. Below is a thread of our current opportunities! Including the newly announced Theatremakers Group for emerging artists of all disciplines in our region!
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Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
📣 Local artists! We’re looking for eight people to join our Theatremakers Group, starting this July. If you want to develop skills focused on dramaturgy, creation and co-creation, find out more and how to apply here: bit.ly/43amYeP
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dermot daly @dermotdaly.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The Alfred Fagon Award, the leading award for Black British Playwrights is now open for 2025 entrants. You have until August 31st to enter and have the chance to join winners who include the outstanding Inua Ellams who won last time out…
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2025 Award - Alfred Fagon Award
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Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
📣 Local theatre-makers! We are delighted to share opportunities from our latest Talent Development programme; the first under the Artistic Direction of @elizabethnewman.bsky.social. Apply for support with funding, space and resources for both aspiring and professional local artists: bit.ly/3EqCpG2
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Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
📣 Applications closing soon! Supporting exceptional female and non-binary playwrights, the winning play will receive £20,000 and the option for us to co-produce the play with @ekpshows.bsky.social and @painesplough.bsky.social Submissions close on Tue 22 April 👉 womensprizeforplaywriting.co.uk
The Women's Prize for Playwriting, Submissions must close Tues 22 April, 5pm
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Tabby Lamb @tabby.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
this week we announced #TransWicked - a one night only all trans charity performance of wicked, raising money for London Trans+ Pride come join us on July 27th www.outsavvy.com/event/26395/... and defy gender
a poster Trans Wicked, showing gender flipped characters in pinks & greens.
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Chronic Insanity @chronicinsanity.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Our first FableMosh Original, where the audience can cast their own production, is now live!!! Descension by Lora Krasteva, inspired by the UK riots last summer, is a spoken word play that delves into what would happen if all the migrants in the UK disappeared. Find out more at FableMosh.com
A pop art style poster, with a blue background and red coloured image of a woman's face, doubled on the screen looking both up and down in opposite directions. The text reads "Descension by Lora Krasteva" and logos for both FableMosh and Chronic Insanity sit in the top right corner
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Middle Child @middlechildhull.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
NEW SHOW ⚡ Biting Point by Sid Sagar is a brand-new play about road rage, performed on top of a car park with views across Hull. See it in the Fruit Market from 10-18 May: bit.ly/3Dl592z
Top down illustration of a red car and a white boxy van in the moment before they collide, with black tyre marks from either vehicle behind them. Texts says "How can we be good in a world that makes us so angry? Biting Point, a new play by Sid Sagar, performed in a car park in Hull."
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Holly Williams @hollywilliams.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
So pleased to publish this ace piece - feels like the sort of thing Exeunt can host that wouldn’t get space anywhere else Lora has written a thoughtful essay on being an migrant and being an artist - but it’s also a creative response, featuring its own instructions for an imaginary performance… 🔥🔥
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Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme @rtyds.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hi 👋 We are RTYDS & we're running Fair Play, a nationwide initiative addressing socio-economic inequity in theatre. Our vision is an industry where working class leaders can thrive & where our theatre sector is robust, socially just, & able to recognise, develop & nurture working class talent.
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Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We’re excited to share a range of upcoming opportunities at Sheffield Theatres! Deputy Head of Lighting Closing date: Wednesday 12 March Head of Wardrobe Closing date: Sunday 16 March Workshop Facilitators and Hospitality Assistants Closing date: Early March 🎭 bit.ly/2ObwhHu
Text reads 'Vacancies'. Jamal Franklin (Ensemble/Understudy) in Little Shop of Horrors. Jamal is wearing a gold blazer and glittery headwear. He is standing in a blue bin and talking into a microphone. There is a plant shop behind him.
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Today's piece is a nice long in-depth chat with the brilliant @chrisbushwrites.bsky.social, about her new play Otherland, now on at The Almeida. She tells @hollywilliams.bsky.social how it's her most personal, and her most expansive, play yet
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'I wasn’t interested in writing just a trans play - Otherland is about womanhood'
Chris Bush talks about her own experience as a trans woman for the first time - and explains why her new show is actually so much bigger than that
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Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We’re celebrating the the fifth anniversary of the The Bank, our creative hub dedicated to to local artists’ talent development! 🎉 Alongside this marker, we’re delighted to welcome eight new members of the Bank Cohort for 2025. Meet the new members here: bit.ly/3ClrXi9 📸 Becky Payne
Eight people smile and either stand or sit around a yellow sofa, in front of a pale pink background. Photo by Becky Payne
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Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Looking back over the past five years, hear from artists across our Talent Development programmes speaking about their experience working with us 👇 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0KfsyEie6s
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Talent Development at Sheffield Theatres
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Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
As well as announcing our 2025 Bank Cohort and celebrating five years of The Bank; we've also revealed the Script Exchange Café! A new opportunity inspired by the #SupportPlaywrights Flashmob and our own ongoing work developing dramaturgical skills in SY. www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/for-artists/...
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Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
As well as announcing our 2025 Bank Cohort and celebrating five years of The Bank; we've also revealed the Script Exchange Café! A new opportunity inspired by the #SupportPlaywrights Flashmob and our own ongoing work developing dramaturgical skills in SY. www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/for-artists/...
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Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Sheffield Theatres and Utopia Theatre’s production of Death and the King’s Horseman features 12 community members in the ensemble. Hear how this production engages with the community, nurturing new talent and bringing fresh voices to the stage. 🎭 Hear from the ensemble members: bit.ly/40G15Bx
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Death and The King's Horseman in the Community
‘Life is honour. It ends when honour ends’ Set in Nigeria in the late 1940’s and based on a true story, Elesin, the king's horseman, is tasked with carrying out a sacred ritual upon the death of the king, however Elesin is overtaken by the allure of earthly desires. A thought-provoking resonant theatrical experience showcasing music and dance, deeply rooted in the culture and spirituality of the Yoruba people. Directed by Mojisola Kareem(Here’s What She Said to Me, Far Gone). Selected by The Guardian as a best theatre production coming in 2025. Book your tickets: https://bit.ly/3yeuOr6
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Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Best way to celebrate five years of Talent Development at The Bank? Invite a bunch of lovely artists to come and hang out in the space. Sheffield Theatres is here For Artists. Learn more here: www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/for-artists
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For Artists | Sheffield Theatres
Discover the wide range of opportunities and resources for local and emerging artists at Sheffield Theatres.
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Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The fifth Bank Cohort at Sheffield Theatres! Five years of Talent Development at The Bank! Loads more on the horizon! (🤫) There's never been a more exciting time to be a theatre maker in Sheffield.
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Jennifer Jackson (Camargo) @jenoirrenoir.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
2 chances to see ENDURANCE! @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social 🏃🏻‍♀️tonight ! And sat! 1st FEB! See you there? www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/endur...
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Endurance | Sheffield Theatres
Jenni is not an athlete. Jenni has not done enough training. Jenni wants to perform a feat of endurance in real-time. She really wants to be able to run up
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Beccy D'Souza @beccydsouza.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Midlands based / connected artists @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social Amplify Ideas Submissions window is OPEN. We're interested in your ideas, at any stage of development, what you want to do with them, and how we might be able to support you to get there. nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/for-artists/....
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Amplify Ideas Submission - Nottingham Playhouse
We open our ideas submissions window twice yearly, providing an opportunity for artists with a connection to the Midlands to present their ideas.
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Theatre Centre @theatrecentre.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We are absolutely thrilled to announce Eleanor Manners as our next Artistic Director! Eleanor joins Executive Director & CEO Emma Rees from April 2025.
Photo of Eleanor Manners, incoming Artistic Director of Theatre Centre. Eleanor is in a rehearsal room, smiling as she points towards something across the room, behind the camera. A young person stood in the background behind her. Photo credit: Oliver Dixon.
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Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
oh this is like, a REALLY good appointment!!! Eleanor is such an amazing force. Can't wait to see her era at Theatre Centre.
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Middle Child @middlechildhull.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Revealed! ⚡ The writers we've commissioned for this year's Fresh Ink: Hull Playwriting Festival: bit.ly/3WATByz
Eight people posing around a yellow wooden bench on Humber Street in Hull. Left, standing at the side, A white woman with wavy dark-blonde hair, wearing a navy dress with white stars and a brown woollen coat. Back left, a white woman with long mid-copper coloured hair, wearing a smart navy coat. Back centre, a white man with a beard wearing a cream hoodie. Back right, a man with long, dark, wavy hair in a navy blue overcoat. Right, standing at the side, a white man with long, dark wavy hair in a green shirt and black trousers. Front left, sitting down, a mixed-race woman with brown skin and long straight black hair smiling in a tweed jacket and dark purple dungarees. Front centre, a white man, with dark hair and a beard in a dark red jumper and black pea coat. Front right, an olive-skinned woman with curly brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a bright pink jumper and black overcoat with faux fur trim.
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Orange Tree Theatre @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
📢 Applications are now open for our 2025 OT Writers' Collective! If you're a mid-career playwright looking to share practice, build networks, gain industry insights, and develop new ideas, we'd love to hear from you. Find out more below 👇 ⏰ Applications open until 10am on Mon 10 Feb!
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Applications open for OT Writers' Collective
Applications now open for the 2025 OT Writers’ Collective, supporting mid-career playwrights with workshops, industry insights, and a bursary.
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Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Jenni is not an athlete. But she really wants to be able to run up mountains. A heart-racing blend of dance, theatre, integrated creative captions and sports spectacle, Endurance is a thrilling look at how and why we endure. 📅 Fri 31 Jan – Sat 1 Feb 🎟️ bit.ly/4iYJnS9
A China Supay (female devil) is dancing. She is wearing a blue lace jacket, and a blue pollera. She is holding two green handkerchiefs and her mask is elaborate with bit eyes and horns/ There are fireworks going off behind her.A woman with short brown curly hair, wearing a pink running vest and shorts, is dancing on stage with a skeleton in a suit. The skeleton has a skill face. The woman is sat on the skeletons shoulder.A woman with short brown curly hair, wearing a pink running vest and shorts, is dancing on stage with a skeleton in a suit. The skeleton has a skull face. The woman is standing in front of the skeleton and the skeleton has his hand on her waist and her leg.A woman with short brown curly hair, wearing a pink running vest and shorts, is dancing on stage with a skeleton in a suit. The skeleton has a skill face and it is pushing her to the floor.
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Ned Glasier @nedglasier.com · 08/01/2025
Today we launch the Youth Theatre Census report - a summary of everything we learnt from the Youth Theatre Census last summer. If you care about youth arts, it’s one of the most important things you’ll read this year. Download it here: bit.ly/youththeatrecensus Or read on for more.
Youth theatre is important, transformative, vibrant … and fragile.
The youth theatre census. Read the report at bit.ly/youththeatrecensus
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New Earth Theatre @newearththeatre.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
📢 Associate Artist Callout: Seed Commission & Creative Incubator We're on the lookout for 6 BESEA artists/companies who will receive: 🔴 £2,000 🔴 Mentoring in fundraising, marketing & creative development 🔴 A performance slot in our Twisted Roots Festival www.newearththeatre.org.uk/news/associa...
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Associate Artist Callout - Seed Commission and Creative Incubator — New Earth Theatre
We are looking for six British East and South-east Asian artists/companies, who are interested in using a heritage art form in their modern theatre practice.
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Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
BESEA artists! Especially those connected to and based in and around South Yorkshire! Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social is one of the venue partners for this incredible national project led by the brilliant team at New Earth. Deadline for applications: 05 Feb Share widely!
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Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
BESEA artists! Especially those connected to and based in and around South Yorkshire! Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social is one of the venue partners for this incredible national project led by the brilliant team at New Earth. Deadline for applications: 05 Feb Share widely!
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Nottingham Playhouse @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Artists - our Amplify Ideas Submissions window is now open! Tell us what you’re working on or towards, and how we can support you. You can also express interest to be part of AMPLIFY:SEASONS, which kicks off 3-4 Jul. Apply by 13 Feb here: bit.ly/3C5kSlC
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The Women’s Prize for Playwriting @womensplayprize.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2025 is now open for submissions until Tuesday 22nd April!🎉 @painesplough.bsky.social @concordukshows.bsky.social @ekpshows.bsky.social The First Prize is £20,000: our biggest prize fund yet.👀 Enter via our website: womensprizeforplaywriting.co.uk/how-to-enter/
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Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"All we could find were your standard middle-aged, white, cis, straight male sets where the humour is just ‘I hate my wife’." Kathryn Schoon speaks to the team behind Queer Comedy #Sheffield, the new project seeking to shake up the city's stand-up scene 🏳️‍🌈⬇️
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Queer Comedy Sheffield - "Stand-up comedy is just the illusion of a conversation": How Queer Comedy Sheffield are reigniting the city’s comic scene
No more problematic punchlines, stale sets and jarring jokes. Kathryn Schoon spoke to Lucy, co-founder of Queer Comedy Sheffield, about how they’re challenging the status quo in stand-up and demystify...
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dermot daly @dermotdaly.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Amy Lever’s play ‘Lost Girl’ has been programmed at The Lowry in September and we’re on the lookout for a producer. (I’ll be directing, but don’t let that put you off) Application pack here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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LOST GIRL - The Lowry - PRODUCER CALL OUT
LOST GIRL - The Lowry - PRODUCER CALL OUT From award-winning playwright Amy Lever, Lost Girl is a solo play exploring girlhood and identity crisis through the lens of Jewish-Arab heritage. Performe...
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Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
ROLLING RESIDENCIES WINDOW 5 Final reminder! £4,000 of funding available for artists local to Sheffield Theatres to develop new ideas with support. Short application form! Deadline: midnight on Friday 10th January. shorturl.at/d9mLz
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/12/2024
UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important. www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
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Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
FOR ASPIRING THEATRE ARTISTS IN SHEFFIELD ❤️🚋 Last weekend to apply to be the Making Room Observer for @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social upcoming production of A Streetcar Named Desire! Deadline is midnight on Sunday 22nd! shorturl.at/DCOu4
A Streetcar Named Desire, bold white text against the backdrop of a pre-dawn New Orlean's street
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
In today's free-for-everyone piece, Natasha Tripney explores endurance theatre, with an international bent: treadmills, heart monitors, running on the spot. How do you take care of yourself while performing these feats night after night? What's all this strain for? How does it feel to watch it?
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Gonna make you sweat
Torn muscles, personal bests, and strategic toilet trips: inside the breathless world of endurance theatre
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Do you read me? In our latest free-to-all piece, editor Holly Williams (@hollywilliams.bsky.social) investigates the working conditions of script readers. An unseen but critical part of the theatre industry, why are these freelancers often working for less than minimum wage? And why do it at all?
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Underpaid and overlooked: what it’s really like to be a script reader
Freelance readers form an invisible but vital workforce across the industry – so why are they so badly paid?
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Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Solid and insightful dive into the state of the "value" of script reading both as a discipline and a process. Loads more conversations to have and work to be done on the matter; but overall feels like people are more keen, and more equipped, to do so. Ideally major unions tune in and show up next.
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The Women’s Prize for Playwriting @womensplayprize.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
📢Announcing: the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2025. Bigger, bolder, brighter. Submissions will open on Monday 13th January and close on Tuesday 22nd April 2025.
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Submissions open: Monday 13th January 2025.
Submissions close: Tuesday 22nd April 2025.
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Hannah Khalil @hannykha.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
And while I’m at it please can only brilliant people (yes that’s you) apply for this - we need a fantastic new plays associate at the Royal Court Theatre (RT we want all the best people to see and apply) royalcourttheatre.com/new-plays-as...
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New Plays Associate - Royal Court
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Georgia Louise Luckhurst @georgialouluck.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
this year i'm assembling our beloved 'show reports' feature, regarding the best play mishaps/quirks/unexpected happenings for @thestage.bsky.social. PRs, stage managers, and theatres get in touch with me if you have any to share! you can see an example here: www.thestage.co.uk/features/sho...
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Show reports 2022: From wild cheesecakes to lost husbands
Stage managers compile a show report after every performance, in which they note any technical problems, onstage issues and unusual audience behaviour. Fergus Morgan rounds up some of the funniest exa...
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Hannah Khalil @hannykha.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Public service announcement! 📢Woke up early so made a playwrights starter pack! Far from exhaustive so please message me if you’d like to be added❤️✍🏽 go.bsky.app/MrCbp2Q #theatre #playwights
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"The critical conversation around theatre is at risk of going quiet, just when we need it the most" The first issue of Exeunt's brand new substack is out, feat an intro by new editor Holly Williams, and a dialogue on the state of criticism by Natasha Tripney and Alice Saville
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Beccy D'Souza @beccydsouza.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Here is a list of UK based or connected (as far as I know) theatre people. Movers, makers, agitators, shakers. If you would like to be on it comment below and I'll add you. I'm putting a bit of work into making it, because bye bye ex-birdy. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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