Helping emerging local directors find their feet in the rehearsal room.
This Scheme allows one local theatre-maker at an early stage in their journey the opportunity to “observe” rehearsals for a forthcoming production. Recent recipients have found the Scheme useful to their development and have reflected –
“The Insight Directors Scheme has been an amazing opportunity for me to understand more about myself as a creative and gain further insight into a professional working environment. Schemes like this prove that you can survive as a Welsh artist, living and working in Wales. It’s really uplifting to feel like people want to support your career.”
Em Dulson, Insight Director on Tick, Tick… BOOM!
“The Directors Insight Scheme does exactly what it says on the tin – provides an incredible insight into the process of directing. The scheme allows someone, like myself, who is sidestepping into directing after 17 years of working as an actor in the industry, an insight that I’ve never been privy to before, despite the work I’ve undertaken in rehearsal rooms. Being on the other side of the room and engaging in all the meetings, conversations and advice provided across the theatres departments as a whole, feels like an invaluable launching point to an exciting new avenue I’ve been dreaming of pursuing. The cherry on top is the undeniably warm welcome you receive while working in the building!”
Danielle Bird, Insight Director on Cinderella
About our Insight Directors Scheme
The director is invited into rehearsals every Monday (or another day by mutual agreement) throughout the rehearsal period, tech and into previews. This enables them to follow the process of bringing the work to our stages and the journey of the production. They aren’t an Assistant Director and are solely there to observe the process. The Scheme also affords them the opportunity to start (or continue) a dialogue with the theatre and to gain an insight into creating work for our spaces.
The successful candidate will be invited to create a diary or blog about their experience – this is to support their reflective learning and development, to consider how they actively might apply their learning to their own practice and may be used as a resource to talk about the production.
The successful candidate will also have a mentoring relationship with Suzanne Bell, Director of Stiwdio Clwyd, and tickets to see the production. They also have a dialogue with the Assistant Director on the production.
Who can apply?
The Insight Director Scheme is open to anyone local (to the producing theatre*) over the age of 18 who want to focus on theatre directing, and is at an early stage in their career. They should not have professional directing credits – but may have created work at a fringe level, as a student, as part of a youth theatre or through other training.
We ask that people only apply for one production – please consider which production or which director you would most benefit from an opportunity to observe. Details on the productions, directors and rehearsal dates are listed below.
*For Theatr Clwyd productions, we define local as someone based in Flintshire, Denbighshire or Wrexham.