Current Opportunities
On this page, you will find the current opportunities for artists wanting to engage with Sheffield Theatres.
New opportunities are announced regularly, please sign up to the Making Room Newsletter to stay up to date.
If you have any enquiries, or require support with your application, please get in touch with talent.development@sheffieldtheatres.co.uk!
Other Opportunities
Verity Bargate Award Workshop
For theatre writers to learn more about the Verity Bargate Award
Soho Theatre are hosting a playwriting workshop at Sheffield Theatres, to prepare writers for submitting their new play for the Verity Bargate Award 2024.
The workshop will take place at Sheffield Theatres on April 29th from 6pm to 8:30pm.
Led by Verity Bargate Award Literary Associate Max Elton, writers will be provided with information about the scope of Soho Theatre’s current programs, their three theatre spaces, and what storytelling and theatricality mean to them.
In the first part of the workshop, writers will learn about the Verity Bargate Award and Soho Theatre’s
heritage of new writing.
In the second part, attendees will look at samples from a number of plays to investigate how they are
structured, the form they take, their style and subject matter.
Finally, the workshop will ask what makes a play specifically right for Soho Theatre, whether it is
alive to the world, in touch with it’s audience and has the audacity to make people gasp.”
Places at this workshop are first come first serve and limited, please email talent.development@sheffieldtheatres.co.uk to reserve a place or ask any questions.
Rapid Response
For artists with lived experience of migration
Rapid Response is a collaboration between Ark Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, Migration Matters Festival and Sheffield Theatres. It was initiated in 2023 to support artists in the development of new work that addresses the themes of climate and migration.
The theme for Refugee Week 2024 is “Our Home”. From the places we gather to share meals to our collective home, planet earth: this is an urgent call to south Yorkshire based theatre and performance makers to propose new performances in any medium that celebrate what our “Our Home” means to them within the context of the climate and ecological crisis.
This year the project returns seeking ‘rapid responses’ that connect with the themes of climate and migration. Aiming to seed fund new ideas that have the potential to be developed further, elsewhere, and in other contexts. Selected contributors should be available to share the outcomes of their work as part of an informal sharing event on 21 June.
Each project will receive:
- £300 to support the development of their scratch performance.
- Access to rehearsal space at The Bank, Sheffield Theatres (10-20 June)
- Bespoke support from a specially selected industry mentor.
limited technical support on the day of the scratch presentation. This might include simple
lighting, use of a PA, and projection. - The opportunity to share their work with a public audience as part of Migration Matters Festival and take part in a talk back discussion with Tommi Bryson (Talent Development Coordinator, Sheffield Theatres).
- Professional photographic documentation of your work.
Applicants should:
- Articulate their idea and outline how it links to the themes of Rapid Response.
- Provide a basic plan for how you intend to work.
- Give consideration to how you might promote your activity through social media.
- Utilise a DIY approach and work with whatever is close to hand.
- Work independently and manage the project within the given budget and the specific
timescales of the R&D.
The sharing event space is to be confirmed.
The deadline for proposals is 5pm on Fri 26 April; you can learn more and submit your proposal here at Migration Matters.
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