National Theatre of Scotland’s new creative cultural leader Fellowship Programme is designed to support creatives to experiment, be bold, brave and take creative risks within a supportive environment. 

Each Fellow will be given dedicated time to design and deliver a project within NTS. They will also have supported time for their own research project which explores change-making.  
  
Their research project could be something new they want to explore, or it could be about having supported time to develop a change-making project they have recently started undertaking personally. 
  
During the programme there will be regular check-ins, focussed on the personal goals of the Fellows as well as meetings with the wider cohort of Fellows. The Fellows will be supported to build new relationships with key partners and further opportunities within the sector will be identified post Fellowships. 
  
The Fellowships is a rolling programme and a new cohort of Fellows will be appointed during 2026. 

Click here to find out more about our current cohort of fellows and their projects.
  
The Fellowship Programme is supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.