Amplify Actors Collective Callout

Calling professional actors in the region!  Are you looking for community?  For somewhere to pick up new tools and develop your skills between roles?  Amplify Actors Collective could be what you’re after.  With a mix of online and in person sessions, Nottingham Playhouse are committing to providing regular space for professional actors to come together and share skills, offering regular check ins and mentoring with our Artist Development Producer. This year, with thanks to the Garrick Charitable Trust, we are also providing a programme of facilitated workshops spread over the year.  And it’s all free.

What is the offer?

Amplify Actors Collective is a year long ‘members only’ actors gym, offering peer support and professional training opportunities.

The programme will consist of

• Monthly workshops led by external practitioners
• Monthly collective-led sessions
• Facilitated zoom check ins
• Additional space may also be available on request for those wishing to run / arrange additional sessions themselves.

The Collective will meet in person twice a month at Nottingham Playhouse, and online sessions will be offered in the intervening weeks.

Please see below for a more detailed timeline.

Who is this for?

• This is free to access training and support for actors with a minimum of one year’s professional training and / or a minimum of three professional credits.
• You must be an Amplify member, or be eligible to join.
• We recognise that as professional actors you may not know what the next 12 months looks like, that you may be away on tour and unable to attend all of the in-person workshops, and that you will not necessarily be available for all zoom check ins. We are looking for individuals who
  • are committed to prioritising the collective outside of their professional commitments where possible;
  • are comfortable leading a room;
  • have ideas about what they might be bringing to the collective, as well as what they might get out of it;
  • are proactive, good communicators and looking to continue to learn and grow their practice.
• We are particularly keen to meet with and support global majority artists, disabled artists and working class artists as we recognise that these groups are under-represented across the industry.

All applicants will be contacted regarding the outcome of their application.

What does recruitment look like?

Actors send in expressions of interest up until Tuesday 5 May. All dates including recruitment and planned sessions are in the downloadable timeline document below.

Artist Development Producer looks through expressions of interest and contacts all artists with either an invitation to book onto a ‘getting to know you’ workshop or a waitlist notification.

Getting to know you workshops will consist of a 50 minute session with a small number of artists, playing games and chatting about the hopes for the Collective.

All artists will be contacted by Tuesday 19 May to let them know outcomes.