#NewAssociates
📢 Applications now open for #NewAssociates 2026/27!
If you're an early-to-mid career artist working in theatre or live performance, & feel ready to level up your professional practice we want to hear from you 👀✨
📝 Apply bit.ly/4a825V4
📅 Deadline: Monday 9 March 2026 at midday
#ArtistDevelopment
February 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Great press night yesterday for #PUNCH @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social ! Congrats to #NewAssociates alumni Elan Butler and Omar Khan 🥰.
Here's to a fantastic run!
📸Pamela Raith
March 19, 2026 at 3:42 PM
MOTHER.DAD
🥰From extended NP fam and #NewAssociates Alumni Doug Deans and @CITheatre @JoeStrickland94
✨13-31 Jan Omnibus Theatre (Clapham, London)
www.omnibus-clapham.org/mother-dad/
Mother Dad – Omnibus Theatre
www.omnibus-clapham.org
January 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
📢Introducing New Associates 2026/27 🎉
Fred Baker is a Nottingham based writer-actor, sound designer and theatre-maker.
Find out more about Fred and our #NewAssociates ⬇️
🔗 bit.ly/4vPKwlr
April 29, 2026 at 5:09 PM
📢Introducing #NewAssociates 2026/27.
✨Laurence James-Davis is an actor & educator, working across theatre, film & television he has a growing focus on writing and creating original performance.
Read about Laurence & the cohort➡️🔗 bit.ly/4vPKwlr
May 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM
MOTHER.DAD is coming to Nottingham 🤩From extended NP fam and #NewPerspectives #NewAssociates alumni. Written by Doug Deans and produced Joe Strickland @chronicinsanity.bsky.social
✨This Fri, 6 Feb Lakeside Arts (Nottingham) www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/mother...
Mother.Dad
A moving portrait of class, gender, love, and the quiet cost of care in a poignant theatre show exploring parenthood. By Chronic Insanity.
www.lakesidearts.org.uk
February 2, 2026 at 12:16 PM
#NewAssociates 2025/26: @benweatherill

Ben is an award-winning playwright, works include Chicken Dust (Finborough Theatre), Jellyfish (Bush Theatre/National Theatre) and Motorhome Marilyn, which premieres at the Ed Fringe this summer.

More about Ben: bit.ly/4myhRMX
June 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
We’re absolutely thrilled that 2023/24 #NewAssociates alum Charlotte Vickers is part of the inaugural cohort of Assistant Directors pool @royalcourt.bsky.social ! Well done Charlotte and congrats to all involved! 📖more➡️ bit.ly/49snQ0e
2026 Trainee Directors and Assistant Directors Pool are announced | Royal Court Theatre
Trainee Directors and inaugural cohort of Assistant Directors announced for 2026, following an initial announcement of increased support for Directors in J
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January 14, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Introducing #NewAssociates 2026/27.
✨Esther Warren is a multi-disciplinary, theatre maker, she has amassed a decade’s experience performing, directing, designing and writing for the Fringe theatre scenes of the South West and East Midlands.
Read about Esther's creative practice 🔗 bit.ly/4vPKwlr
May 16, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Introducing #NewAssociates 2026/27.
✨Finley-Rose Townsend is a Leicester playwright & theatre practitioner creating intimate, collaborative work rooted in lived experience. She co-runs Literati Arts, producing creative projects and curating live performance and literary events.
🔗 bit.ly/4vPKwlr
May 15, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Introducing #NewAssociates 2026/27.
✨ James Sweeney is a writer for stage and screen. Drawn to bold, original storytelling grounded in authentic characters, he is interested in creating work that's emotionally layered & entertaining.
Read More about James 🔽 🔗 bit.ly/4vPKwlr
May 14, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Introducing #NewAssociates 2026/27.
✨ Georgina Saunders- Fazzani is a dance artist based in Nottingham. Her creative process is rooted in humour, using playfulness & personal stories to shape engaging movement.
Read more about Georgina here➡️🔗 bit.ly/4vPKwlr
May 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
"📢Introducing #NewAssociates 2026/27.
✨ Olivia Newton is a Nottinghamshire based Actor & film maker. She began her career at The Television Workshop & has worked in a variety of screen roles. She has a special interest in early writing and R&D.
Read more about Olivia ➡️🔗 bit.ly/4vPKwlr
May 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
"📢Introducing #NewAssociates 2026/27.
✨ Rehannah Mian writes for the stage, creating character-driven monologues & scripts rooted in real lives and unheard voices. Her work is shaped by her lifetime experience working across diverse communities.
📖 Read more here▶️ 🔗 bit.ly/4vPKwlr
May 11, 2026 at 4:40 PM
📢Introducing #NewAssociates 2026/27.
✨Linh Huynh is an actor & writer from Nottingham, her work explores identity, relationships, cultural hybridity, and intergenerational memory.
For more info about Linh and this years cohort ▶️ 🔗 bit.ly/4vPKwlr
May 9, 2026 at 10:44 AM
📢Introducing #NewAssociates 2026/27.
✨Francesca Hess is an actor & writer. An alumna of the #RoyalCourt Writers Group & the inaugural Fifth Word Playwrighting cohort, She trained as an actor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Read more about Francesca here ➡️ 🔗 bit.ly/4vPKwlr
May 8, 2026 at 8:39 AM
📢Introducing #NewAssociates 2026/27.
Meet Laura Goulden @lauragoldini.bsky.social
✨East Midlands based creative and deaf & disabled ally with 20 years of experience collaborating with deaf & disabled artists in making high quality theatre.
More info about Laura ➡️🔗https://bit.ly/4vPKwlr
May 7, 2026 at 8:34 AM
📢Introducing #NewAssociates 2026/27.
Meet writer and actor Susan Earl✨
"... I want to create ambitious new theatre which puts complicated women centre stage and refuses to tidy them up."
⬇️🔗For more info about Susan and this years cohort bit.ly/4vPKwlr
May 6, 2026 at 12:27 PM
📢Introducing #NewAssociates 2026/27.
Meet #CreativeProducer Keilah Chambers-Turner✨

"...so excited for the opportunities to develop my practice, meet other local creatives, and soak up as much knowledge and expertise as possible!"

For more info➡️ 🔗 bit.ly/4vPKwlr
May 1, 2026 at 4:53 PM
📢Introducing #NewAssociates 2026/27. ⁠
✨Daron Carey is a poet and playwright.
Find out more about him here🔗 bit.ly/4vPKwlr
April 30, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Big, joyful news 🎉
We’re thrilled to welcome 14 incredible artists to our 2026–27 New Associates cohort, spanning a wide range of creative disciplines and we’re honoured to support their journeys.
Meet the cohort 👉 bit.ly/4vPKwlr
#NewAssociates #ArtistDevelopment
April 28, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Fantastic News! 👏👏👏👏👏
We're absolutely thrilled for #NewAssociates alumni and new Curve Theatre Resident Creatives Amelia Michaels, Ishi Khan, Martha Kent and Serenah Cole, Congratulations to all! 🥳🥰
📸Curve Theatre
March 24, 2026 at 10:14 AM
🗓️There's 1 week left to apply for #NewAssociates, our Talent Development programme for East Midlands based #theatre artists.
💻Missed the online information session?
No problem, check out the recording for all you need to know!
🔗 bit.ly/40EUgQW 👀⁠

#ArtistDevelopment #TalentDevelopment
March 2, 2026 at 12:24 PM
💻 Working on your application for #NewAssociates 2026/27? ❓Want to know more about the programme?

🤩Take a look at our FAQ's page! bit.ly/3MAjJYA ⁠

#ArtistDevelopment #TalentDevelopment #TheatreMakers #NewPerspectives, #NewAssociates
📸Charlie Flint Photo
February 27, 2026 at 4:43 PM
📢 #Theatreartists of the ⁠East Midlands! ⁠
Need support to develop your professional practice?⁠ ⁠
📅Join us online tomorrow 12.30-13.30 to hear more about how you can apply to our Professional development programme #NewAssociates
⁠🔗To Register ⁠https://bit.ly/4rpp184⁠⁠
#TalentDevelopment
February 24, 2026 at 5:51 PM