Happy Opportunity Tuesday!

16 January 2024

Hi team

Hope you’re all doing well. Ten more exciting paid opportunities for you - there are some real bangers this week, enjoy!

Big love x

Happy Opportunity Tuesday!

Every Tuesday I share 10 #artsopps, commissions, residencies, open calls and applications closing soon.

Always PAID (or free/cheap for training) and for a range of artists: emerging to mid-career, from 16 to 80+.

Here are this week’s…

For musical theatre writers and composers:

Apply for a placement at either the MAST Mayflower Studios in Southampton or National Theatre of Scotland in Glasgow, as part of the Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer Scheme. You’ll get £13,000 and be paired with a company, with the opportunity to be involved in a range of work such as writing/composing assignments, shadowing, and developing your own material.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 5 FEB

For theatre artists and companies:

Apply for one of the Pleasance Edinburgh International Partnerships in Bristol, Leicester, Plymouth, Pitlochry, Cardiff or Belfast to get significant support with getting your show to the Edinburgh Fringe. You’ll get £2,000+ cash plus programme inclusion, PR and marketing support, in-kind rehearsal space, mentoring, support with access performances and more

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 5 FEB

For artists in Bradford:

Apply for Bradford Producing Hub’s Explore Fund to get £3,000 to explore, experiment, research, or test new ideas, processes or media.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 28 JAN

For producers:

Dream job alert! Brilliant opportunity to join Selina Thompson Ltd as Senior Producer in Birmingham. Paid £37,000 for 4 days per week.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 2 FEB

For disabled creatives aged 14-26:

Touretteshero are offering opportunities for 16 creatives (8 from London and 8 from the rest of the UK) to participate in a collective disabled-led zine project called ‘Department for Wonder and Play’. Each contributor will receive £500.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 9 FEB

For early career directors and theatre-makers:

Apply for an RTYDS Intensive Residency to get a paid Assistant Director role at Middle Child in Hull or the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry. Paid £580 per week for 12 weeks.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 24 JAN & 7 FEB

For unpublished writers:

Apply for the London Library Emerging Writers Programme to get FREE library membership, plus bespoke masterclasses and workshops. Two bursary funds are available to support members of the cohort who face financial, health, or other barriers.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 28 FEB

For artists aged 31 and under:

"bildingship" is a working fellowship for young artists to use bilding in Germany as space for their own artistic work, as well as actively engaging in the regular workshop programme, for 7-12 months. The fellowship includes part-time employment, paying 500€ per month (approx 10 hours per week).

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 21 MAR

For deaf dancers:

Black Country Dance Hub is looking for 4 professionally trained deaf or hard of hearing dancers to work with Mark Smith from Deaf Men Dancing, to create a new piece called D-Clusivity. The choreographer's style of dance is Sign Movement (a combination of sign-language and movement, blended to create a rich and diverse movement vocabulary). £720 fee for 6 days of R&D.

Find out more and sign up here

DEADLINE: 12 FEB

For Global Majority writers, theatre artists and sound/music artists:

Maya Productions are recruiting a creative team for a project working in housing schemes in Sheffield for people living with long-term mental health needs. Paid £120 per session.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 19 FEB

That’s it for this week!

Really hope it’s useful. It’s a tough time for artists (and, well, everyone) at the mo so please look after each other out there. Let me know if you’re successful with your applications - I love hearing from you! And as always if you enjoy Opportunity Tuesday please share to help it reach the folks who need it most. I started it to try to level the playing field a bit, and every little helps.

Opportunity Tuesday will always be free to access, but if you can afford to chip in a little something to support me to keep it going, that would be hugely appreciated - just click the button below to support with £1 per week. (I’m freelance too!)

Thank you for your support, and I have my fingers and toes crossed for you. Good luck!

P.S. The part you’ve all been waiting for - Mabel says hi

Please note: Inclusion in #OpportunityTuesday is not endorsement. I look far and wide for the most interesting and exciting paid opportunities I can find, and though I do my best to make sure they’re legit, I don’t always know the organisations well. If you have an issue with something on the list, please get in touch with the relevant organisation. You are very welcome to send me opportunities to include, but please note I will not be able to respond to every request, and I do not guarantee inclusion in the list - each week is curated to be varied and relevant. I don’t normally share ‘traditional’ salaried roles such as marketing, development, finance etc as they are often not relevant for artists. Thanks!