Thursday 28th and Friday 29th March
10am – 6pm
Artist Fee: £150 per day per person plus travel expenses
Space Invaders is a two-day opportunity for six playwrights and six performance designers to explore three unusual spaces. A different dramaturg each day will facilitate creative conversations stimulated through exploring the surroundings.
This is a paid opportunity and is the fourth in a series of events that The Envelope Room and Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland have embarked on over the last five years.
The spaces may be new to you and will serve as sensory provocation.
This opportunity is open to mid-career to established playwrights and performance designers. We define a mid-career or established playwright as someone who has had at least two professional productions paid at industry rates. Performance designer applicants should have created five professional projects and can be of any discipline of performance designer (set, costume, lighting, video, etc.).
However, we acknowledge that artists from EDI priority groups have often not had access to professional opportunities at the same rate as their peers. Therefore you can apply for this workshop even if you have not had experience of professional practice if you are:
- Working in Gaelic, Scots or BSL
- Based outside the central belt of Scotland
- A person of the Global Majority
- Disabled*
- From a socio-economically deprived background
- Trans or non-binary
We welcome artists of any gender, religion or belief, age, or sexual orientation.
We recognise the importance of diversity of thought in all spaces and are fully committed to embracing and maximising the talents of autistic people and those with dyslexia, ADHD and other forms of neurocognitive variation. We always seek to make appropriate adjustments to support processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, please contact us.
*A note on terminology - what do we mean by disabled?
We use the term 'disabled people' or 'disabled playwright' to refer to anyone who self-identifies as disabled. This can include D/deaf people if they identify as disabled as well as others living with impairments (physical, sensory, learning, cognitive, mental health, etc.) that identify as disabled. Playwrights' Studio use the Social Model of Disability and recognise that some people experience disabling barriers.