Really disappointed
@NewYorker
has replaced voice actors reading articles for audio with AI generated crap 👎 what a crappy pivot that’s miserable to listen to. Won’t be renewing my subscription if this continues.
theatres, you know your juicy jobs like assistant directing roles are going to get 100s of applications -this is not 'unprecedented'. please consider a first round of CV submissions/EOI instead of full applications so we can actually get feedback for the time we put in to pitch!
I challenge everyone voicing their support for pub theatres to actually go to the next fringe show you’re invited to and not ask for a free ticket — especially if you work in a venue!!! Make people’s self-exploitation for career advancement worth it!!! 😈 👀 👻
getting on one of those edfringe top shows to see lists in the national newspapers requires an (expensive) PR and a lot of luck. It can also make or break artists’ festival experiences. Reminder to peek through the programme and take a chance on something that just sounds good!!!
I am so grateful for the skills I’ve gained as a producer to be able to put on and direct plays I feel passionately about. But burnt out and broke barely covers how it affects you to hold all of those roles, and you simply can’t make your best work.
This is a reminder why many writers/creatives choose to self-produce. But having to develop your skills in producing, fundraising and marketing whilst trying to hone your craft as a writer and pay your bills... this doesn't lead to GOOD art.
being a director is v different to being an artistic director... they both engage in creative management but the day-to-day of a freelance director is wildly different to the AD of any org. i'd start with salarying directors/dramaturgs like in europe😎
Sam Mendes has claimed the
@NationalTheatre
needs a "younger generation" to run it following the departure of Rufus Norris, as he ruled himself out of taking the top job at the venue.
Read more 👇
🚨🚨NEW SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT🚨🚨
Midnight Tattoos
by Philip Landon
directed by
@oliviammunk
Opposites attract when rebel Suzie and bookworm Michael meet on the plane from JFK to Paris.
A romantic comedy wrapped around a literary mystery...
July 9-13
🎟
very excited to be joining
@Miniaturists
as one of its curators! come and see our next show of up-and-coming writers, directors & performers
@arcolatheatre
on Nov 27 👇
Take a look into what's going on within the Gentlemen rehearsal room!
Matt Parvin's new play will open in Studio 2 next week. Exploring power & class structures within universities, don't miss out in seeing this explosive drama.
Tickets from £15
🚨ACTORS WITH AMERICAN ACCENTS🇺🇸
@audrey_thayer
& I are casting for a new play I'm directing
@draytonarmsSW5
this July.
Breakdown here:
Please submit to our expression of interest no later than April 14:
lmaooo I was leaving town and I see a woman with a corgi so obviously I ran over like “sorry not to be weird but can I say hi to your dog, I have a corgi too” and this woman is like “yeah not to be weird either but I follow you and Tâf on Twitter actually”
An ’artists village’ aimed at tackling the ongoing accommodation crisis at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (
@edfringe
) is being launched, which will offer rooms to hundreds of participants at this year’s event.
#EdFringe
Read here 👇
This x 1000. We also have to spend years grafting for credits to get our visas that cost thousands. And without roots in the UK we aren’t eligible for so many place-based opportunities. i love living here but wish there was more awareness of the barriers immigrant artists face.
Underfunding, invisibility and a lack of curiosity from the sector mean that migrant artists often end up on the fringes of the industry, says Maria Aberg. The UK must start doing more to celebrate international artists 👇
with ACE funding as dire as it is right now, I’m genuinely at a loss sometimes about how fringe work even goes ahead, let alone at £100/ day rates or living wages! producers should pay more but ~*~*~how!!??*~*~*~
Everyone is very mad about £100 day rates on the Theatre Peckham advert, but pls I beg you stop pretending that this isn’t the rate that so many jobs in this industry are advertised for in quieter less public ways!!! And those orgs get no flack 🙃
Emanate Presents: THE ARC
A trilogy of brand new short plays by three of the UK’s leading Jewish playwrights
@amysrrose
Alexis Zegerman and Ryan Craig.
Directed by
@kaylatmf
Soho Theatre (Upstairs) 15-26 August
@sohotheatre
🎟 LINK IN BIO
.
@jbickelbarlow
& I are workshopping my first play (gulp) ACORN about Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe on Wednesday June 28 - would love for folks to come check it out!!!!! feat.
@Charlie_Blands
&
@AlyssaVirji
!
Meet the
#OTEngineRoom
class of Summer 2023 👋
We can't wait to support their latest works-in-development in the coming months!
Check out our sharings to meet fellow creatives and catch the next generation of theatre before anybody else.
🔥
while I’m always excited at the prospect of more support for emerging artists, I really hope this new venue goes beyond splits and support in kind through space. we have enough of these opportunities that simply mean more artists are competing for ever dwindling pots of money.
Midnight Tattoos
by Philip Landon
Guided by the voice of a mysterious stranger, Michael & Suzie explore Samuel Beckett’s favourite haunts and solve the riddle of Waiting for Godot.
A romantic comedy wrapped around a literary enigma...
July 9-13
🎟
Two more must-see shows have joined our Spring 2024 theatre season:
⭐️ Hope This Helps (6th - 9th March)
⭐️ Bloody Mary: LIVE! (28th - 30th March)
Plus the return of WRESTIVAL (2nd - 4th May) for the fourth time here at Pleasance London! Get booking. 🎟️
A few years ago I did a work in progress that cost £5 and we asked venues we invited to pay if possible.
Literally every single one asked for free tix 🤪
Producers Francesca Moody (
@ChescMood
) and Paul Taylor-Mills have urged peers not to ask for complimentary tickets to Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows, warning that the costs of making productions for the event are becoming "increasingly hard to manage" 👇
Meet the
#OTEngineRoom
class of Summer 2023 👋
We can't wait to support their latest works-in-development in the coming months!
Check out our sharings to meet fellow creatives and catch the next generation of theatre before anybody else.
🔥
Meet the Director of Midnight Tattoos - opening this July at Drayton Arms Theatre
Olivia Munk (
@oliviammunk
) is a theatre director from NYC. She is Artistic Director of
@potmtheatre
, an associate company
@ThePleasance
& former
@draytonarmssw5
resident company.
Part of the Main is thrilled to be part of
#VAULTFestival
2023!
We've got all kinds of theatre on the menu for you: late night-comedy
#BloodyMaryLive
!, experimental movement-led
#AllByMyself
and fantastic award-nom'd new writing
#TheTinker
. Tix here:
She's bloody, she's Mary, she's
#NOMINATED
!
Thank you so much to
@OffWestEndCom
&
@VAULTFestival
for this honour!
Keep your eyes peeled for your next opportunity to see the queen 👀👑❤️🔥
"Migrants do not deserve to be the target of misinformation and resentment.
Inaccurate information and hostile rhetoric makes us feel vulnerable, unable to plan our lives and struggling to demonstrate or worth."
Midnight Tattoos
@draytonarmsSW5
July 9-13
Guided by the voice of a mysterious stranger, Michael & Suzie explore Samuel Beckett’s favourite haunts and solve the riddle of Waiting for Godot.
A romantic comedy wrapped around a literary enigma...
🎟
deeply disappointed that Harvard, which claims to espouse free thinking and speech, can’t even tolerate students (checks notes) silent studying as a form of protest against an actual genocide.
received a release tn from Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine saying that students were threatened with disciplinary action for a planned “study-in” that consisted of silent studying in a campus library in keffiyehs while displaying their divestment demands
This Friday at 7pm: join us for the Catalyst showcase, a very special sharing of extracts from six new plays, written and directed by Catalyst 23 artists! Read on for the full line-up...
ONE WEEK TO GO UNTIL 🔎
#Minis79
🔍 ... so here's a quick intro to our brilliant line-up.
But first, don't forget to get your tickets here for next Sunday:
Shows at 5pm + 8pm,
@arcolatheatre
!
✨NEW WORKSHOPS💫
Join us this March & April for workshops
@ThePleasance
& on Zoom delivered by expert artists
Learn how to make your own sound design, understand Intimacy Guidelines, market your show, work with audio describers & captioners, & more!
‘A great glass ark, into which, two by two, four scientists are sealed.’
Please join us next week for this brilliant WIP by
@OliviaFoan
as part of
@ThePleasance
Futures Fest. Tickets only £5/£7 -
More info 🧵 👇
It's been a tough year, but I'm really looking forward to bringing a trio of
@potmtheatre
shows near & dear to my heart to
@VAULTFestival
next year. We've raised a good chunk of what we need to pay our artists & deliver access, but we still need your help!
Our Associate Artists
@potmtheatre
are at
@VAULTFestival
this week with The Tinker!
A twisting, unsettling tale that asks what we are willing to believe about the strangers at our door...
You've got until Sunday ⚡️
“Director Olivia Munk keeps things moving at a suspenseful pace, the threat of derailment always coiled in the air but never quite ruptured.”
Reviews are trickling in for
#TheTinker
! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Grab your tickets and don’t miss
@OliviaFoan
’s chilling script
@VAULTFestival
“All the ingredients are in place for a spooky gothic affair, and on the whole this piece from Part of the Main Productions is grandly successful.”
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ from
@lostintheatre
for
#TheTinker
@VAULTFestival
!
Paris
Parrots
Procrastination
Michael is stuck. He's trying to write a book on Beckett but waiting for words to come is like waiting for Godot.
But then, he meets Suzie.
🦜🇫🇷Midnight Tattoos🥖📻❤️
July 9-13
🎟
PART OF THE GRID IS BACK!
Join us for our series of practical & affordable theatre training workshops between March 23-30 at 4 venues across England!
@exeter_phoenix
, March 23
@AcornPZ
, March 24
@theatredelishef
, March 27
@PleasanceFuture
, March 28-30
Break a leg to the whole team at MARIE CURIE: THE MUSICAL
@CurieMusical
on their Press performance tonight! 👏🧪
🎭 OLIVIA MUNK (
@oliviammunk
) is Associate Director
🗓️ Playing
@CharingCrossThr
until 28th July
#StandingOvationNom
MIDNIGHT TATTOOS by Philip Landon /
@lostgirlprods
at
@draytonarmsSW5
Nomination for new writing. Philip Landon's debut play is a cleverly created romantic comedy wrapped around a literary enigma.
See all
today my tutoring student asked me if i've heard of covent garden. which is second only to the number one question a student once asked me, which is whether i had a job.
being a director in this company was a highlight of last year!!!! definitely go support some brilliant up and coming talent if you're around oxford april 6!!!