Who can apply ?
Performance-makers. This is a flexible term – to include those who have produced only a limited amount of professional work, as well as creatives with many years of experience.
‘Performance-makers’ can include:
- those working in theatre, visual and physical theatre, dance, puppetry, performance art, storytelling, circus, and outdoor arts
- specialists including performers, directors, writers, managers, producers, choreographers, dramaturgs and visual, sound & AV designers
What Waypoint-1 can offer
The project offers free guidance, consultations, and one-to-one mentorship, often lasting a year or longer. Support offered might include helping you to:
- navigate the economic and social crises we now face
- hone your creative vision or an idea for a show
- identify sources of funding and write your own funding applications
- identify potential avenues for collaboration, partnership and employment
- develop digital, marketing and communications skills
- produce your own work and streamline your admin
- identify and access space to create your work
- identify and access technical support required to produce your work
- conduct a creative experiment of some kind
- explore opportunities for touring your work
- identify and apply to professional development opportunities
- identify sources of play-reading services if this is the support you require.
What you can bring to the project
- questions that are important to you
- as much time as you would like to invest in your professional development
- your creative vision or a notion of what that vision might be
- an agent, manager, producer, fundraiser or administrator for your work
- project funding, bursaries or commissions to create work
- fees for creation, admin or expenses
- production costs for your shows
If you are interested in participating in Waypoint-1 please see the Apply section for details. Applications can be submitted at any time.
Top image by Andy Catlin