Fantastic News! 👏👏👏👏👏
We're absolutely thrilled for #NewAssociates alumni and new Curve Theatre Resident Creatives Amelia Michaels, Ishi Khan, Martha Kent and Serenah Cole, Congratulations to all! 🥳🥰
📸Curve Theatre
Great press night yesterday for #PUNCH @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social ! Congrats to #NewAssociates alumni Elan Butler and Omar Khan 🥰.
Here's to a fantastic run!
📸Pamela Raith
🗓️There's 1 week left to apply for #NewAssociates, our Talent Development programme for East Midlands based #theatre artists.
💻Missed the online information session?
No problem, check out the recording for all you need to know!
🔗 bit.ly/40EUgQW 👀
#ArtistDevelopment #TalentDevelopment
💻 Working on your application for #NewAssociates 2026/27? ❓Want to know more about the programme?
🤩Take a look at our FAQ's page! bit.ly/3MAjJYA
#ArtistDevelopment #TalentDevelopment #TheatreMakers #NewPerspectives, #NewAssociates
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📢 #Theatreartists of the East Midlands!
Need support to develop your professional practice?
📅Join us online tomorrow 12.30-13.30 to hear more about how you can apply to our Professional development programme #NewAssociates
🔗To Register https://bit.ly/4rpp184
#TalentDevelopment
🎭East Midlands based emerging or mid-career theatre artist? Need support to develop your creative and professional practice?
📢Producers, writers, actors, directors, creatives in theatre and performance #NewAssociates is for YOU!
💻Apply Now bit.ly/4a825V4
📢Thinking about applying for New Associates 2026/27?
Join our online info session on Weds 25 Feb (12.30–1.30pm). Come meet the NP team, ask questions, or just listen in and learn more about the support available. Everyone’s welcome ✍️Register: bit.ly/4rpp184
#ArtistDevelopment #NewAssociates
📢 Applications now open for #NewAssociates 2026/27!
If you're an early-to-mid career artist working in theatre or live performance, & feel ready to level up your professional practice we want to hear from you 👀✨
📝 Apply bit.ly/4a825V4
📅 Deadline: Monday 9 March 2026 at midday
#ArtistDevelopment
MOTHER.DAD is coming to Nottingham 🤩From extended NP fam and #NewPerspectives #NewAssociates alumni. Written by Doug Deans and produced Joe Strickland @chronicinsanity.bsky.social
✨This Fri, 6 Feb Lakeside Arts (Nottingham) www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/mother...
MOTHER.DAD
🥰From extended NP fam and #NewAssociates Alumni Doug Deans and @CITheatre @JoeStrickland94
✨13-31 Jan Omnibus Theatre (Clapham, London)
www.omnibus-clapham.org/mother-dad/
We’re absolutely thrilled that 2023/24 #NewAssociates alum Charlotte Vickers is part of the inaugural cohort of Assistant Directors pool @royalcourt.bsky.social ! Well done Charlotte and congrats to all involved! 📖more➡️ bit.ly/49snQ0e
Headshot of Conor Wilkinson, a man with light brown hair and beard, wearing a black t-shirt against a neutral background.
#NewAssociates 2025/26: @CJwilkies
Conor is a multi-talented artist who has worked for nearly two decades as an actor and workshop practitioner, with experience in writing and directing for the stage.
More about Conor: bit.ly/4myhRMX
Headshot of Ben Weatherill, a man with brown medium length hair, wearing a blue tie-dye shirt, against a leafy background.
#NewAssociates 2025/26: @benweatherill
Ben is an award-winning playwright, works include Chicken Dust (Finborough Theatre), Jellyfish (Bush Theatre/National Theatre) and Motorhome Marilyn, which premieres at the Ed Fringe this summer.
More about Ben: bit.ly/4myhRMX
Headshot of Ione Vaughan, a smiling woman with short brown hair in a blue shirt, leaning against a yellow wall.
#NewAssociates 2025/26: @ione.vaughan
Ione is a theatre and event producer and creative programmer. She was selected as one of Tunbridge Wells Puppetry Festival's Emerging Artists for 2024.
More about Ione: bit.ly/4myhRMX
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#NewAssociates 2025/26: Noor Sobka
Noor is a Libyan, theatre-maker and screen-maker with a particular interest in comedy and telling MENA stories. Most recently Noor co-wrote Delulu and is a trained Dramaturg and Script reader.
More about Noor: bit.ly/4myhRMX
Headshot of Ioney Smallhorne, a Black woman of Caribbean, (Jamaican-Indian heritage), she has naturally curly hair that frames her face, she has a gold nose ring and is wearing a teal cardigan.
#NewAssociates 2025/26: Ioney Smallhorne
Ioney is a writer, poet, film maker and educator. In 2021 she was shortlisted the Sky Arts/Royal Society of Literature Fiction Award and won the Writing East Midlands/Serendipity Black Ink Writing Competition.
More about Ioney: bit.ly/4myhRMX
Headshot of Anna Sharpe-Jones, a person with short brown hair and cheerful expression, wearing a colourful tie-dye top against a brick wall background with a framed artwork above.
#NewAssociates 2025/26: Anna Sharpe-Jones
Anna describes herself as a Clown (survivor of Ecole Philippe Gaulier - a fancy Clown school in France) and other serious artsy things. Her debut solo show, The Hat of Many Hats, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe 2024.
More about Anna: bit.ly/4myhRMX
Headshot of Sneya Rajani, a South Asian woman with wavy black hair wearing a grey tank top, smiling against a soft green backdrop.
#NewAssociates 2025/26: Sneya Rajani
Sneya is a British Indian actor, dancer, voice artist, and drama practitioner with over 16 years’ international experience across the UK, India, and Dubai. She is an accomplished choreographer and dance teacher.
More about Sneya: bit.ly/4myhRMX
Headshot of Amelia Michaels, a woman with medium brown skin and short dark brown hair, smiling, wearing gold hoop earrings and an off-the-shoulder brown jumper against a dark green backdrop.
#NewAssociates 2025/26: Amelia Michaels
Amelia is a British-Bajan actor, director, theatre-maker and facilitator. She completed the China Plate Optimist was Assistant Director on Romeo & Juliet, a Belgrade Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Hackney Empire co-production.
More about Amelia: bit.ly/4myhRMX
Headshot of Annis McGee, a person with brown short hair mixed with a blonde streak, with big square glasses and gold hoop earrings wearing a black top and open shirt stood in front of a grey wall.
#NewAssociates 2025/26: Annis McGee
Annis is a freelance creative, blending audio into site specific environments. Their writing has been nominated for Audioverse Best New Production award, and they’ve recently been awarded an Immersive Arts Explore Grant.
More about Annis: bit.ly/4myhRMX
Headshot of Daljinder Johal, a young South Asian woman with curly hair sitting, smiling softly with her arms crossed over the arm of a bright yellow sofa.
#NewAssociates 2025/26: Daljinder Johal
Daljinder is a creative producer, primarily in film and theatre, as well as new technologies. Her work platforms global majority and LGBT+ stories, with a particular passion for regional storytelling.
More about Daljinder: bit.ly/4myhRMX
Headshot of Tom Health, a man with medium length brown hair, brown beard with a city and riverscape in the background.
#NewAssociates 2025/26: @stghostycreatives.bsky.social
Tom Heath is a Producer and Theatre practitioner specialising in sound and poetry fusions with live performance and digital art in industrial spaces. He won the Derby Poetry Festival East Midlands prize 2024.
More about Tom: bit.ly/4myhRMX
Headshot of Leah Chillery, a woman with curly hair, wearing a black top against a grey mottled background. Headshot by Focus and Shoot, Nottingham
#NewAssociates 2025/26: Leah Chillery
Leah is a graduate of the BBC’s College of Comedy where she story-lined on Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps and her own sitcom pilot, Ebony’s Yard and is a National Theatre’s New Views Young Writers Scheme dramaturg.
More about Leah: bit.ly/4myhRMX
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#NewAssociates 2025/26: Stevie Cairns
Stevie is a visually impaired writer, theatre maker and stand-up comedian. She performs all around the UK , and recently completed Graeae’s Beyond Programme for disabled artists.
More about Stevie: bit.ly/4myhRMX
