Industry Mapping and Business Support for Freelance Directors

The theatre industry – along with dance, music and live events – is in an unprecedented moment of uncertainty and change, because of the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Join freelance director Jo Tyabji for a careful, honest and tender session in which the group will:

• pool knowledge and understanding of the industry to assess how it is changing, where opportunities are contracting, and where there may be opportunities for growth (like outdoor performances, radio, interactive work)
• audit skills, share assets and create actions that will allow artists to turn towards where there is opportunity, both within the industry and looking beyond it
• deepen understanding of the business model theatre operates on in a business as usual scenario, and innovate business models that freelance theatre directors could shift towards

This is a chance to see yourself as the instigator of work; in a supportive space to think about opportunities that reframe how you engage as an artist with the wider industry.

Jo Tyabji directs new writing, devised work and plays across form and genre. She also create and perform solo work using drag and lip sync.  Work includes as a creator/performer Motherland, CPT and touring, 2019; as a DIRECTOR My Name Is My Own, Southbank Centre, 2019, Surge, The Albany, 2019, What’s Far Is Near, Southbank Centre, 2019; as a STAFF DIRECTOR Julie, National Theatre, 2018; and ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Way of The World, Donmar Warehouse, 2018

Please click the sign-up button above to let us know you plan to attend so we can email Zoom details to you the day before.

Closed captions will be available for this session via Otter AI. Please let us know if you have any other access requirements using the space on the sign up form so we can get appropriate provision in place as soon as possible.

RTYDS is currently curating the Young Vic Directors Programme. You don’t need to be a member of the Genesis Network to take part in this session, but you do need to be a professional director, designer or producer and not in full time education.

You can find out more about the Young Vic Genesis Network and sign up here.

The Genesis Network is funded by the Genesis Foundation.