What Next?

Why Theatre?

  • Thousands currently work backstage.
  • Annual demand of over 3,000 technical support and specialist back-and-off-stage jobs in the live music and preforming arts sectors.

What now?

  • Get more experience.
  • Get qualified.

Where to look!

Amateur Theatre -
NODA West Midlands – www.nodawestmidlands.org
Professional Theatre -
The REP – www.birmingham-rep.co.uk
Birmingham Hippodrome – www.birminghamhippodrome.com
Crescent Theatre – www.crescent-theatre.co.uk
The Drum – www.the-drum.org.uk
Mac – www.macarts.co.uk
The Old Rep – www.oldreptheatre.org.uk
Alexandra Theatre – www.alexandratheatre.org.uk
Maverick Theatre Co. – www.mavericktheatre.co.uk
Birmingham Library Theatre – www.birminghamlibrarytheatre.co.uk
Town & Symphony Hall - www.thsh.co.uk
National Indoor Arena – www.thenia.co.uk
National Exhibition Centre – www.necgroup.co.uk
Wolverhampton Grand Theatre – www.grandtheatre.info
Wolverhampton Arena Theatre – www.arena.wlv.ac.uk
Wolverhampton Civic Hall – www.wolvescivic.co.uk
Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry – www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry – www.belgrade.co.uk
Criterion Theatre, Coventry – www.criteriontheatre.co.uk
Many small theatre companies through – www.artscouncil.org.uk/regions/westmidlands
 

General and career info –
Creative choices – www.creative-choices.co.uk
Get Into Theatre – www.getintotheatre.org
National Skills Academy – http://nsa-ccskills.co.uk/default.aspx
Apprenticeships - www.apprenticeships.org.uk
BECTU media and entertainment Union – www.bectu.org.uk/home
ABTT (association of British Theatre Technicians) – www.abtt.org.uk
Creative alliance – www.creativealliance.org.uk