We are delighted to be launching the Insight Directors Scheme.

This Scheme allows one local theatre director at an early stage in their journey the opportunity to observe rehearsals for a forthcoming Theatr Clwyd production.

We recently piloted the Scheme on Tick, tick... Boom! which provided a unique opportunity for director Em Dulson –

“The Insight Directors Scheme has been an amazing opportunity for me to understand more about myself as a creative and gain further insight into a professional working environment. Schemes like this prove that you can survive as a Welsh artist, living and working in Wales. It’s really uplifting to feel like people want to support your career.”

About our Insight Directors Scheme

The director is invited into rehearsals every Monday (or another day by mutual agreement) throughout the rehearsal period, tech and into previews. This enables them to follow the process of bringing the work to our stages and the journey of the production. They aren’t an Assistant Director and are solely there to observe the process. The Scheme also affords them the opportunity to start (or continue) a dialogue with the theatre and to gain an insight into creating work for our spaces.

The successful candidate will also have a mentoring relationship with Kate Wasserberg, Artistic Director of Theatr Clwyd, and Suzanne Bell, Director of Stiwdio Clwyd, and tickets to see the production. They also have a dialogue with the Assistant Director on the production.

The successful candidate will be invited to create a diary or blog about their experience – this is to support their reflective learning and development, to consider how they actively might apply their learning to their own practice and may be used as a resource to talk about the production.

Who can apply?

The Insight Director Scheme is open to anyone local over the age of 18 who want to focus on theatre directing, and is at an early stage in their career. They should not have professional directing credits – but may have created work at a fringe level, as a student, as part of a youth theatre or through other training.

The successful candidate will be provided with a fee of £1,050 for the Insight Director Scheme – this is the equivalent of £150 per day. There is not a budget to cover travel or subsistence so it is open only to local artists.

For this Scheme, we define local as someone based in Flintshire, Denbighshire or Wrexham.

How to apply

We ask that people only apply for one production – please consider which production or which director you would most benefit from an opportunity to observe.

Details on the productions, directors and rehearsal dates are listed below.

Application Deadline dates are:

Snake In the Grass: Mon 14 July
The Red Rogue of Bala: Mon 1 Sept
Cinderella The Rock 'n' Roll Panto: Mon 22 Sept

To apply please submit a current directing CV or biog and a brief expression of interest (no more than 300 words) that outlines why you are interested in observing the process on this production and this particular director and the questions you have coming into that process.

Applications are to be sent to stiwdio@theatrclwyd.com

If you have any queries about this opportunity, please contact Suzanne Bell at stiwdio@theatrclwyd.com for more information.