Directors In Practice will open for applications on 19 February.
Our Young Directors Training Programme alumni Katie-Ann McDonough and Rebecca Gwyther have now joined the company to lead the Directors In Practice programme, an initiative to help directors reach the next stage in their artistic journey.
This practical course will give participants with a variety of backgrounds and experiences the space and time to examine their practice in detail, as well as gaining more experience by directing actors in the rehearsal room and working closely with practitioners at the top of their game.
This funded 6-month long programme will continue to be provided free of charge, and will take place across Saturday practical sessions to hone the directors’ skills, followed by a platform to showcase them through a festival at Omnibus, Clapham. This will be accompanied by Wednesday evening sessions to learn the inner workings of directing a theatre production. Each director will get the opportunity to direct a one-act play of their choosing, with the Saturday sessions covering a range of topics and hosted by industry professionals. The directors will be supported by two producers and will learn how to work closely with a creative team through mentoring, sessions with industry leaders and practical producing of the festival at Omnibus.
More Information Coming Soon!
Read all about our previous Directors Training Programme ( formerly known as StoneCrabs Young Directors Programme)
Young Directors Training Programme
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- 2020-2021 (Playdoh)
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- 2016-2017 (Stomping ground)
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- Cohort 2014
The Programme
StoneCrabs is a director-led company: its interest in nurturing new directors from all sectors of the community fuels this programme. Each year a small number of young directors go through training programme centred around production, project management and theatre directing. It introduces artistic and practical management tools for the director and encourages an individual approach, utilizing the director’s own vision. At the end of the programme, the participants put their training into practice by producing a festival with professional actors, each participant directing a play of their choice. This popular Programme has been running since 2006.
Why should you participate?
Previous years
Check the blogs by Hattie Coupe and Ferghal Crowley
Click here to read the 2014 ‘A Younger Theatre’ articles written by past participants, and here to read the 2015 articles.
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