East Midlands acting scheme offers free support for professionals

Morning Briefing: Tuesday, 28th April

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Nottingham Playhouse's Amplify Actors Collective is currently recruiting professional actors from around the East Midlands to join its "members only actors gym". Today, there is an opportunity to learn more about what the callout process involves.

The Actors Collective is a development programme for professional actors, focusing on building networks between actors, skill sharing, and mentoring. Meetings are done both in person, at the Playhouse, and over Zoom.

The scheme is free to join (in part funded by the Garrack Charitable Trust), offering professional development in an industry where training and networking can often come with a cost.

Now entering its third calendar year, the collective is recruiting a fresh intake of actors.

The scheme, started in 2024, is specifically open for working actors: those with at least a year of professional training or a minimum of three acting credits. It also expects some level of commitment. The social network aspect is only as strong as its membership, so wants members who are "committed to prioritising the collective where possible".

Organisers say they are particularly keen to hear from disabled, working class and global majority artists, groups often underrepresented in the industry.

The callout process runs until Tuesday, 5th May. Tonight at 5pm there is an online session hosted by Nottingham Playhouse's Artist Development Producer, Beccy D’Souza, who also runs the mentoring sessions. There, prospective applicants can ask for more details about the process and the collective itself.

The Actors Collective is part of the Amplify programme at the Playhouse. Amplify has similar objectives of helping artists succeed through workshops, events, and networking, however it is open to a broader audience. All "theatre-makers" are invited, including actors, directors, or writers, with no restriction on career stage.

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