SEEKING ACTOR Midnight Adams in association with Met Film Productions is seeking a male identifying actor for short film "Unborn"
Synopsis: A young inter-religious couple become unexpectedly pregnant after an incorrect infertility diagnosis, and must come to terms with giving up their baby.
Character Biographies:
KHALID (24 years old)
MUST SPEAK ARABIC
Khalid is a young Middle Eastern working professional who migrated with his family to London as a child. Having graduated, he now works in finance. He is restless and constantly on the move, struggling to manage colliding cultures, family tradition, and upholding his religious values. Khalid sets his family above all else, and constantly worries about not being good enough for them.
Fee: £600
Dates: filming first week of May
Location: West London (Ealing)
Director: Clemence Bartram
Writer: Luke Norton
Producer: Midnight Adams
Talent must forward their showreels and CVs to unbornshortfilmcasting@gmail.com before March 13th 2024 to apply for self tapes submissions.
The deadline for self tapes will be March 20th 2024.
OPPORTUNITY Contact Improvisation Workshops on March 11th and 18th at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Dive deep into the world of Contact Improvisation.
If you are a creative/performer/theatre maker/actor and have a passion for movement led training, then we invite you to participate in our workshop.
For the research project entitled ‘Performance research’ for the MA/MFA Movement: Directing and teaching course at Royal Central, we are researching; 'How can preparation and movement frameworks facilitate consent based practice in actor training’. Therefore, we are gathering information through this workshop.
The workshop will be a 90 minute led session, facilitated by three movement practioners (Chander van Daatselaar, Laura Game, Lyra MacKenzie). The workshop will comprise of an exploration of movement based practices around contact improvisation.
The workshop is part of a research project and will be filmed as part of gathering research material. We will provide an area in the studio where you will not be filmed but you may still participate and/or observe.
We will hand you a form after the workshop with a few questions, we kindly ask you to fill it in.
Only participants ages 21+ can participate in this workshop.
Should you book the workshop, a consent form will follow by email.
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OPPORTUNITY CrewHQ Trainee Programme The CrewHQ Trainee Programme is a brand-new scheme providing a pathway into a career in film and TV production.
Based on site at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, home to some of the biggest productions made in the UK such as The Batman, Barbie and Wonka, this programme will give you:
Behind the scenes access to Warner Bros. Discovery film and TV productions
Training from amazing industry experts
Chance to interview for paid placements on Warner Bros. Discovery productions currently filming
Networking opportunities with crew
We love what we do – making the magic happen, working with different teams, solving problems and constantly improving. If you have a passion for working behind the scenes in film and TV production, then we would love to hear from you!
Deadline: Sunday 10 March 2024 CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
SEEKING DEPUTY HEAD OF STAGE The Hampstead Theatre in Swiss Cottage/Northwest London is looking for a Deputy Head of Stage.
Deadline: March 13th, 2024 CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
OPPORTUNITY Totally Thames 2024: Seed Fund Programme Totally Thames is an annual festival of river and river-related arts and culture. It takes place throughout the month of September.
Totally Thames is curated and managed by Thames Festival Trust. Our aim is to work collaboratively with artists, communities, and river interest organisations to celebrate the river’s past and present, and to safeguard its future.
Our Seed Fund has the potential to provide up to £1000 towards costs. To certain projects, we also provide marketing and development support.
We are open to ideas across all art-forms including visual art, theatre, dance, music and spoken word.
Deadline: Friday 15 March 2024 CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
OPPORTUNITY PlayLab @ East Riding Theatre PlayLab is an exciting new event, which launches July 2024 at East Riding Theatre.
Our aim is to offer our audiences the opportunity to discover both new and established writers by engaging more people in the live theatre experience.
Whether you are an established or first-time writer, this opportunity is open to anyone who wants to have a go. There are no limits to the creativity or content of your script. Providing that it is either new or previously unproduced and that it can be performed as either a full or one act play. We will also accept play excerpts, providing they are accompanied with a full synopsis.
The selected plays will be performed as rehearsed readings by professional actors with script in hand.
Deadline: Friday 15 March 2024 CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
OPPORTUNITY Highly Sprung Associate Artist Highly Sprung are looking for exceptional people with physical theatre or dance theatre expertise, to extend their pool of Associate Artists. This application is for a paid training period with the Highly Sprung team. After this training, there is potential to join their pool of Freelance Associate Artists.
With this callout, they are specifically looking to increase representation across our delivery team to better meet the needs of, and represent, the audiences, children, and young people they work with.
This training is an opportunity for Highly Sprung to meet and work with talented artists with a passion for working with children and young people. To work closely with the existing team to deliver inspiring participatory projects in a range of settings.
The fee for this training period is £1010.00, for 8 days of training, mentoring, and shadowing.
Deadline: Monday 18 March 2024 (5pm) CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
SEEKING PROD. COORDINATOR The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is looking for a Production Coordinator. Deadline: March 21st, 2024 CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
SEEKING MOVEMENT DIRECTORS RADA is looking to expand the pool of hourly paid movement staff on our BA Acting Course.
Salary: Hourly rate £43.28 per hour for teaching / fee for movement support on productions TBC
Join RADA for an immersive workshop-style interview day tailored for movement practitioners. We are seeking to build a diverse pool of tutors enthusiastic about contributing to the curriculum of the BA(Hons) Actor Training course.
Deadline: 5pm March 22nd, 2024 CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
OPPORTUNITY Sharjah Performing Arts Academy: https://spaa.ae
Job: commences late August 2024
Role: Full time faculty, postgraduate level.
Location: Sharjah, UAE (about 20 minutes from Dubai).
About Sharjah Performing Arts Academy:
SPAA is in its fifth year as a higher education institution. We offer BA Honors programmes in Acting, Musical Theatre and Production Arts. Additionally, we offer a Level 6 Trinity Dance Diploma.
From September 2024 we will be offering a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre and Live Performance Creation, with concentrations in Directing, or Producing, or Set and Costume Design. This will be a first in the MENA Region. We train, educate and produce graduates with a competitive edge in an international market, with all the necessary skills to develop a lasting and prosperous career within the professional Performing Arts industry. Deadline: March 21st/24th, 2024
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OPPORTUNITY Hidden Voices Make a case for your voice to be heard! Menagerie Theatre are seeking professional quality work from 3 artists or companies to be shared at Hotbed Festival 2024 as part of our new grant, Hidden Voices. We are open to taking submissions from a range of disciplines - from performance to poetry, so long as text is at the heart of your work we want to hear from you!
What are we offering?
Bespoke artistic support from the Menagerie team leading up to Hotbed 2024
A fee of £1000 to help support development of your production/performance/sharing
Slot to perform at Hotbed 2024, one of the UK’s leading new writing festivals
A fee of £500 to share your production at Hotbed 2024
Bespoke ongoing artistic support from the Menagerie team
Deadline: Monday 25 March 2024 (5pm) CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
OPPORTUNITY Connecting Threads Berwick Bridge Residency Connecting Threads is working with the organising committee of Berwick Bridge 400 to run an artist residency to coincide with the 400-year anniversary of the opening of Berwick Bridge.
The aim of the residency is to provide time, space and resources to a creative practitioner to develop their own project in the context of the Berwick Bridge anniversary, the river Tweed and the joined towns of Berwick, Tweedmouth and Spittal.
The residency is open to UK-based creative practitioners, including visual and performing artists, musicians, writers, designers and makers. We welcome applications from people at any stage of their career, including new graduates, but excluding those currently in full-time study. We welcome applications from individual artists as well as those working in collaboration as a pair or group.
Deadline: Monday 15 April 2024 (midnight) CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
OPPORTUNITY British Council International Collaboration Grants 2024 Our International Collaboration Grants are now open for the second time. This £1 million grants programme supports the creation of new cultural collaborations between UK artists, arts professionals and organisations and their peers around the world.
Our International Collaboration Grants encourage new bilateral and multilateral partnerships, providing funding to enable organisations to make and develop creative artwork with their international peers, and help individual artists find innovative ways of collaborating. Available grants range between £25,000 and £75,000 and are now open for application.
Applications must demonstrate genuine international collaboration and deliver explicit benefit to participating UK artists and organisations and their international partners. Projects can address any theme and we ask applicants to share their approach to diversity, inclusion and environmental sustainability in the delivery of their project.
Deadline: Tuesday 30 April 2024 (11:59pm) CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
OPPORTUNITY Creative Future Writers' Award Competition 2024 The Creative Future Writers’ Award (CFWA) is a national writing development programme which celebrates talented, underrepresented writers who lack opportunities due to mental health issues, disability, identity, health or social circumstance.
The theme for our 10th Awards is ‘Reveal.’ Your work should respond to the theme, implicitly or explicitly, but we're looking for quality writing first and foremost. The theme is a creative prompt, not a requirement. Send us your best work!
You can submit ONE piece of writing, up to and not exceeding the word limits (excluding the title):
Deadline: Sunday 19 May 2024 (11:59pm) CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
