Welcome to our page dedicated to Artists

In support of artists who are not currently under commission with the National Theatre of Scotland, we offer a range of free and paid professional development opportunities and programmes to artists based in Scotland.

We offer these in addition to our core work: paying artists to develop work for our programme. To find out more about how we work with artists, please check out Our Process.

Free Resources and Opportunities

We offer free access to our non-cash resources such as work/rehearsal space, networking, staff expertise and experience etc, to a broad range of Scotland-based artists and companies, to support the health and sustainability of the sector.

Year-round open opportunities include:

• Submit a play to our Script Reading Programme and receive written dramaturgical feedback.
• Request Access to Resources- free space (max 12 days per artist), letters of support for funding applications, use of equipment, props and costumes, all subject to availability.
• Request attendance at your work/sharings so we can engage with your work where possible.

Other opportunities, including acting and performance workshops, networking and other peer learning events are advertised at different points throughout the year.

For current live opportunities see our vacancies and opportunities page here. Make sure you’re the first to hear about them by signing up to our mailing list here.

For details of upcoming free development activities via open call see below.

Paid Artist Development Programmes

These programmes are designed to introduce National Theatre of Scotland to new emerging artists and support the development of their craft, often with a particular focus on artists whose voices, stories and communities have been unrepresented and underserved.

For current live opportunities see our vacancies and opportunities page here. Make sure you’re the first to hear about them when by signing up to our mailing list here.

For details of upcoming paid development activities via open call see below.

The Fellowship Programme | Current Cohort

Our creative cultural leader Fellowship Programme is designed to support creatives to experiment, be bold, brave and take creative risks within a supportive environment.

Each of the 3 Fellows has been given dedicated time to design and deliver a project within NTS. They have also had 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 have been about having supported time to develop a change-making project they have recently started undertaking personally. 

Click here to find out more about our current fellowship projects.