Train with us as an Assistant Director on a major new production

The National Theatre of Scotland, supported by the Bank of Scotland will offer three new theatre directors the opportunity to train as Assistant Directors on major new productions for the Company.

If you are a new director, who is Scottish or based in Scotland, looking for an opportunity to develop your skills and connect with artists and audiences then the National Theatre of Scotland would love to hear from you.

New directors will train on one of three exciting new productions -

• A new and urgent project based on transcribed, edited and structured interviews to create an exciting piece of site specific theatre directed by Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany.
• Alan Cumming returns to Scotland with a new and radical take on Macbeth. Alan Cumming’s solo show will be directed by John Tiffany and Andy Goldberg and will have performances at Tramway, Glasgow before transferring to the Lincoln Center, New York.
• A brand new musical for Scotland, conceived and directed by the award-winning Cora Bissett telling the feel good story of Glasgow teenagers with a cause. Glasgow Girls is at the Citizens Theatre. A co-production with Theatre Royal Stratford East, Pachamama Productions, Richard Jordan Productions Ltd in association with Citizens Theatre and Merrigong Theatre Company (Australia).

Download a Job Pack from our website.

Application Deadline: 10am on Thursday 23 February.

The New Director initiative is taking place as part of Pioneering Partnership – a new sponsorship connecting Bank of Scotland and the National Theatre of Scotland in a relationship across a wide range of National Theatre of Scotland programme elements over two years.