NT Connections Festival Producer (Stage Door Programme)

NT Connections Festival Producer Stage Door Placement

Bristol Old Vic are partnering with Good Chance Theatre to offer an exciting new opportunity for a producer with experience of forced displacement to join our team for five months. 

ABOUT THE ENGAGEMENT DEPARTMENT AND STAGE DOOR

Bristol Old Vic's Engagement department encompasses Young Company; one of the largest regional youth theatres in the UK, work with community groups and schools, training projects for young artists across the South West and co-created heritage projects.

Stage Door is Good Chance Theatre’s flagship programme dedicated to creating bespoke paid trainee opportunities for creatives from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds. The programme celebrates and nurtures creative industry professionals while addressing the imbalance of opportunities available to people who have been displaced.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE 

To produce the Connections Festival 2027 in collaboration with the Engagement Team.

National Theatre Connections is the National Theatre’s annual, nationwide youth theatre festival and comprises of venues all over the country hosting Youth theatre productions of scripts written specifically for young people. Bristol Old Vic has been a partner venue for the festival for over 13 years and will host 8 youth theatre productions over a week in March 2027.

INTERVIEWS

Interview date: 14th October 2026 at Bristol Old Vic Theatre 

For more information and to apply:  

To apply, please submit the following materials to: HR@bristololdvic.org.uk

• A supporting statement - using the person specification as a guide, please outline why you are interested in the post and how your skills and experience meet the criteria for this role.(Additionally, please outline how you found out about this role)
• Your CV or a list of your experience (maximum 2 pages)
• Confirmation that you fulfil the eligibility criteria with lived experience of forced displacement (i.e. have sought asylum or refuge in the UK)
• Please also complete the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Monitoring Form and send with your application.

Applicants are welcome to submit their applications in a format that is most accessible to them (i.e. a written document, video recording or audio recording). All offers of employment are made subject to contract, receipt of at least two suitable references and documentation confirming your eligibility to work in the UK. If you have any questions, or would like to discuss the role in more detail with one of the Bristol Old Vic team please email  HR@bristololdvic.org.uk

IMPORTANT: We cannot accept links to files or shared folders. CV & Cover Letter documents should be in MS Word or PDF format only.