Recruiting for a Freelance Producer

We are now recruiting for a freelance producer to join our team for the SYT residencies and Kinder tour. We are looking for someone with a minimum of 3 years professional experience in producing, and the deadline is Weds 5th July at 9am.

This role will support the company through a 32 date national tour of our award winning show Kinder and 3 Spectrum Youth Theatre residencies for neurodivergent young people. This activity will run from August 2023 – February 2024, however we are keen to find someone who could work with us on a longer term basis, across all our projects, subject to further funding being secured.

Visit our opportunities page to find out more.

Mentoring Opportunities

We are excited to announce we have 3 mentoring opportunities now open. We are offering 3 early career artists the opportunity to apply for a mentorship in either directing, set design or puppet design. This is a funded project, as such it will be free to take part.
If you are interested in applying, please visit the Opportunities page on our website for the full callout. There is also a video version further down the page.
https://smokingapplestheatre.com/contact/opportunities/
We are committed to increasing diversity in the puppetry sector and accessibility in the arts, and so we are particularly interested to hear from applicants who are from the Global Majority, and/or who are d/Deaf, Disabled or Neurodivergent.
The deadline for applications is 9am on Wednesday 5th July.
We look forward to hearing from you!
This project has been funded by Arts Council England and Enterprise Arts Trust.
ID: Photo of Molly, Matt and Hattie wearing black Smoking Apples t-shirts, they have their arms around each other and are smiling to camera.

We need a Producer!

Smoking Apples Theatre Company (Flux, In Our Hands, CELL) seek a Producer to work with the company through an exciting new phase of artistic and audience development. This role will support the company through an R&D of a new show and a second tour of our most recent show, Flux. This activity will run from May 2020 – March 2021, however this timeline may potentially be extended due to the current Covid-19 pandemic.

Our new R&D is aimed specifically at young adults, our first official foray into this audience, and will be developed with neurodiverse artists, with input and feedback from neurodiverse teenage audiences. This second tour of Flux, a story of a female Nuclear physicist fighting to get her voice heard, will have captioning and audio description using tourable equipment, making it possible for all of our tour venues to offer this to their audiences. Having consistently created and toured successful puppetry and visual theatre productions for the last 10 years, we are looking to develop our audience base, both in terms of numbers and venues, but also to diversify the audiences we engage. We are therefore seeking a dynamic freelance producer to join the team and support this, but also challenge us and introduce us to new networks and ways of working.  

Fee: £1,980.00 – 18 days at £110 per day, across 8 x months of activity, within the total project. 

Please download the full job description here for more details and how to apply.

Deadline for applications: Wednesday 27th May 2020, 5pm.

Interviews: Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th June 2020. Please ensure you are available on one of these days.

We regret that we cannot invite everyone to interview but all applicants will be informed either way, no later than Monday 1st June 2020. 

Please note, due to the high volume of applications we receive, any incomplete or late applications will not be considered.

This position has been supported using public funding by Arts Council England.