Other Opportunities
The Tanya Moiseiwitsch Award for Theatre Designers was launched by the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in 2024.
This new award offers a week’s residency full board and studio access to a theatre designer working and living in Ireland. The award is designed to support a pioneering designer working towards the development of a new production, research, or publication.
Every year there is an open call announced via their newsletter and social media networks. We advise you to follow and/or subscribe to their newsletter.
MAKE is an artist development programme and residency initiative of Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Project Arts Centre, and Theatre Forum.
It is open to artists for the purpose of generating new performance work outside of the traditional writer-led model at all career levels. It takes place over a week at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.
Every year there is an open call announced via their newsletters and social media networks. We advise you to follow these organisations and/or subscribe to their newsletters.
The Marie Mullen Bursary by Druid is an annual award for women working on the island of Ireland as theatre artists in the fields of design, directing and dramaturgy.
Named in honour of actor and Druid co-founder, Marie Mullen, the bursary is intended to address a historic imbalance and to support the professional development of women in Irish theatre.
Every year there is an open call announced via their newsletter and social media networks. We advise you to follow and/or subscribe to their newsletter.
SEEDS (Seek out-Encourage-Enable-Develop-Stage): a new iteration of Rough Magic’s highly regarded development programme for emerging artists, providing mentorship across all creative disciplines (including design, direction and producing) as well as opportunities for paid placements on Rough Magic productions.
The engagement is usually for 18 months and in 2023 it included strands for Costume Design, Lighting Design, Video Design, Set Design and Sound Design.
Every two years approximately there is an open call announced via their newsletter and social media networks. We advise you to follow and/or subscribe to their newsletter.
Six in the Attic is Irish Theatre Institute (ITI)’s key artist development programme providing artists with the space and resources to create and develop work.
Six in the Attic was established in 2011, focusing on supporting a community of playwrights and theatre makers to engage, explore, develop, debate, and collaborate on their projects. Since the pandemic ITI created an online version of the in-person programme, Virtual Attic.
Every year there is an open call announced via their newsletter and social media networks. We advise you to follow ITI and/or subscribe to their newsletter.
Gap Day was set up by Lian Bell and Mermaid Arts Centre in 2015 and to date has supported almost 300 artists. Gap Day gives professional freelance theatre practitioners across Ireland paid time to think, dream and plan. Gap Days are available to directors, devisors/makers, writers, designers, production managers and creative producers – essentially, anyone who has a prime creative role in the making of the work.
A Gap Day enables people to take time out and dedicate a day to the creative research.
Every year there is an open call announced via their newsletter and social media networks. We advise you to follow Mermaid and/or subscribe to their newsletter.
Centre Culturel Irlandais Annual Residency Programme offers great opportunities for artists of all disciplines to tap into the resources of Paris and the CCI, as well as being an important means of showcasing Ireland’s dynamic contemporary culture on an international stage.
Applicants must be Irish citizens or normally resident on the island of Ireland. The call for applications opens mid-November each year and the deadline is mid-January for residencies running from September of the same year to June of the following year.
We advise you to follow Centre Culturel Irlandais on social media and/or subscribe to their newsletter as they are increasing the number of residency programmes in partnership with local authorities in Ireland and other institutions. Find out more here
Next Stage is presented by Theatre Forum in partnership with Dublin Theatre Festival, and it is the artist development strand of the festival.
Over the 18 days of Dublin Theatre Festival, participants are immersed in the programme and given access to an array of leading artists in a packed schedule of talks, interviews, group time and workshops. Applications are invited from anyone working professionally in theatre and the performing arts.
Every year there is an open call announced via their newsletters and social media networks. We advise you to follow these organisations and/or subscribe to their newsletters.
The Romilly Walton Masters Performance Residency was established in 2016 in memory of the late director, producer, scriptwriter and friend of the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Romilly Walton Masters. This award supports the making of bold, innovative, experimental performance work in the fields of theatre, music, dance, film or visual art to be experienced by audiences in France and Ireland.
Presented in partnership with Dublin Fringe Festival, this annual award enables experimental theatre and performance makers in their early careers to develop an idea and show the final piece at CCI and DFF.
Every year there is an open call announced via their newsletters and social media networks. We advise you to follow these organisations and/or subscribe to their newsletters.