The Directors Charitable Foundation has teamed up with Mind, the mental health charity, and their Mental Health at Work site, to create a new online resource specifically for stage and screen directors. The pages include advice, support and resources, as well as a blog where...
A brief break from our 'A Sense of Direction' blogs this week, to introduce you to our new General Manager, Tanja Raaste: -- Although I only became a theatre producer after forays into other careers, I now realise that those puppet shows I put on at 10...
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] COVID-19: Routes to recovery - an evidence-based study of the freelance theatre workforce This report was created by an unaffiliated group of analysts and theatre freelancers. It includes data gathered by SDUK, Freelancers Make Theatre Work and Curtain Call through the...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The international outbreak of Covid-19 (Novel Coronavirus) will undoubtedly affect the lives of working directors and their creative colleagues. It's business as usual for SDUK, as we work remotely and can...
We were saddened to hear of the recent passing of Ivor Benjamin. Ivor was not only a well-respected director of theatre, but a tireless campaigner for directors’ rights, supporter and member of SDUK, and was heavily involved in the work of both the Directors Guild of Great...
This week's 5 Minute Chat is with Stage Director's New Executive Director Thomas Hescott And on Tuesday May 2nd Thomas will be in conversation with his Agent Dan Uztan from UNited Agents at Century Club. Want to know more about the Director/ Agent Relationship? Want to...
Production company Bill Kenwright Ltd has apologised to SDUK member Matthew Dunster after using press quotations of Dunster’s production of After the Party at the Almeida Theatre to publicise a new production of Rodney Ackland's play. Read the full article from The Stage here....