A professional experience for performing arts students in training. Don’t sit around all summer, stand up and take part! Applications are now OPEN!
Following the huge success of Taking Care of Baby in 2011, this summer Northern Stage will once again create a young company of performing arts students to take part in a two week residency.
This year we'll be again be working from a challenging script and exploring fresh ideas with new talent. We are looking for approximately 15 of the region's most talented and exciting performing arts students.
Springboard participant's receive:
* An intensive two-week creative residency
* Performance technique training (voice work, approaches to text and movement)
* Optional specialist skills training (audition skills, setting yourself up as an artist, marketing techniques, technical skills)
* Rehearsing with professional directors, designers and technical teams
* Performing with full production values in a professional theatre
* A public and invited audience of agents, producers and promoters
* Support from creative, technical, marketing and administrative teams
You must currently be training in a performing arts discipline, on a degree level course. You also need to live and work in the North East. The cost of the two week residency is £100, there are some bursaries available.
*The first of two audition days will be the 27th of April at Northern Stage*
Please download your form here and email to acarter@northernstage.co.uk or post to Amy Carter, Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle, NE1 7RH. For any further details please contact acarter@northernstage.co.uk
"Springboard for me was a helping hand out of limbo. Just graduating from uni Is a daunting task, however taking part in these 2 weeks helped me grasp a hold of what I wanted to do with my life, and do this with extreme specialist support and care, as well as being able to have 2 weeks of fun and laughter. In the 2 weeks I was able to work in a professional setting, with professional directors, a top class play, brilliantly talented performers and have the shoulders of all of the overtly helpful Northern Stage staff to lean on. I was given the confidence and constructive criticism I needed by directors I worked with which was so helpful as a growing performer. Definitely a must if you are wanting to step into the world of art!"
Danielle Burn | Springboard Particpant 2011
"Being apart of Springboard was a brilliant experience. Rehearsing in a professional theatre, with a professional crew and performing with new and very talented individuals was simply brilliant. I learned a lot from the course which persuaded me to further pursue my ambition to be a professional actor. And above all else I made some good friends."
James Manning | Springboard Particpant 2011
"We were directed professionally without the feel of being students and we were treated as artists within this industry. It is a fabulous scheme with high expectations and it creates yet another opportunity for young artists within the north east! I felt I benefitted a lot from the Springboard Residency and would definitely recommend it to others wanting to pursue a career in acting."
Stephen Jaan Pilman | Springboard Particpant 2011
We ran out of space for all the feebdack from last year's participants. You can read more here.