Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre is looking for newly established performance companies and emerging artists to join its Springboard talent development programme.
The Belgrade’s Springboard scheme was created in 2015 to support new and emerging artists to develop their work. Successful applicants will receive tailored support over a three-year period, including advice and guidance from Belgrade staff, marketing support and space to create and rehearse their work.
Two companies will benefit from the scheme from autumn 2019. They will join Richard and Rishard, Underground Lights and Maokwo, recent additions to Springboard.
Underground Lights has already held a series of drama workshops at the Belgrade, Maokwo has created films and rehearsed at the Belgrade in the lead-up to the Coventry Welcomes festival while Richard and Rishard are planning their next steps together as a duo.
Previous Springboard companies have gone on to tour their developed pieces, produce city-wide events and secure co-productions with other venues.
Strictly Arts show Freeman played at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe and went to Chicago while Noctium Theatre toured the story of Coventry music pioneer Delia Derbyshire to audiences across the UK in Hymns for Robots.
Strictly Arts executive producer Henry Bays said, “being a Springboard company at the Belgrade has helped us to evolve and grow enormously. The support and knowledge of all the staff has been immensely valuable and being associated with the Belgrade has opened up many doors for us with venues and arts institutions around the country.”
Applications for the programme can be submitted at the Belgrade Theatre web site. The deadline is Monday 15 July.