JMK Workshop with Leeds Playhouse, Thursday 25th April Verbatim theatre is a form of documentary theatre which is based on the spoken words of real people. This Spring, Junction 8 Theatre’s production of their new verbatim play Lancastrians will tour community spaces around Lancashire. The play was made using the real words of 500 people […]
JMK Assistant Director Blog – Nyasha Gudo
JMK Assistant Director bursary recipient Nyasha Gudo shares his experience of working on The Mountaintop, written by Katori Hall and directed by Roy Alexander Weise (who won the 2016 JMK Award with this production). The show was a co-production between Reading Rep, Nuffield Southampton Theatres and Desara Productions, and also toured to Northern Stage, The […]
JMK Birmingham Rep Directors’ Group Sessions
On the second Thursday of every month (7-9pm), our JMK bursary recipients Nyasha Gudo and Lucy Bird will be running a free workshop at Birmingham Rep for Midlands based directors. These workshops will be a practical and theoretical look at various aspect of directing, such as preparing a text for production, working with a writer, […]
JMK CV Surgery and Application Q&As at Dundee Rep – Sat 27 April
Free JMK event as part of Dundee Rep’s inaugural Rep Stripped festival. If you’re a director and looking for some advice or guidance on how to polish up your CV or have questions about how to make job applications work better for you, we’re offering 1-2-1 20 minute chats on Saturday 27th April at Dundee […]
JMK HOME Manchester Assistant Director Bursary
The JMK Trust in partnership with HOME is offering an Assistant Director Bursary on Javaad Alipoor’s next production. This production is the third in a trilogy of shows by Javaad Alipoor and his collaborators, which began with the critically acclaimed The Believers Are But Brothers. The bursary recipient will demonstrate a commitment to living and […]
JMK Assistant Director Blog – Evan Lordan
In our latest JMK blog, Evan Lordan describes his experiences as the JMK Assistant Director on Touching the Void, adapted by David Greig from the memoir by Joe Simpson, and directed by Tom Morris. Touching the Void was a co-production between Bristol Old Vic, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Royal & Derngate Northampton and Fuel. The […]
JMK South West – Workshop with Rosanna Vize, at Nuffield Southampton Theatres
Saturday 25th May Workshop with Rosanna Vize, Designer Designer for The Audience, opening soon at Nuffield Southampton Theatres Nuffield Southampton Theatres (City) 4-6pm Free to attend RSVP: nik@jmktrust.org This workshop with Rosanna Vize will take a look at the Director-Designer relationship and the process of creating and developing design for the stage. Rosanna is currently working […]
JMK Leeds Playhouse – Director & Designer Intensive
With Leeds Playhouse, we’re hosting a two day intensive for 10 early career Directors and 10 early career Set & Costume Designers to explore the relationship between these two roles and the process of creating the design and concept for a piece of theatre. It’s also an opportunity for artists to meet potential collaborators and peers […]
JMK Northern Stage – CV Surgeries & Application Q&As
Monday 25th March, 4-7pm Northern Stage If you’re looking for some advice or guidance on how to polish up your CV or have questions about how to make job applications work better for you, we’re offering 1-2-1 half hour chats with JMK Director Practitioner, Maria Crocker. Sessions will give you the opportunity to reflect on […]
Routes to Collaboration: Second Call-Out
In January we sent a call-out asking for expressions of interest from artists based in the Berkshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire areas, who have an idea in the early stages of development, that they would like to test over the course of a day at Reading Rep. We have invited 5 directors and theatre-makers to […]
