FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
My work is aimed at audiences interested in contemporary theatre, devised performance, solo work, physical storytelling and socially engaged practice. I am also interested in reaching audiences through workshop contexts, community engagement and artist-led events.
A useful way to describe this professionally is through comparator language. For example:
Audiences who like the work of: Inua Ellams, Anna Deavere Smith, Faustin Linyekula, Khalid Abdalla, Debbie Tucker Green, and artist-led performance that combines embodiment, direct address, political inquiry and intimate theatrical form.
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Contemporary theatre audiences
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Solo and experimental performance audiences
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Students and emerging artists
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Community participants
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Festivals and venue programmers interested in flexible touring work
My development plan includes research and development, networking, touring preparation, training, collaborative exploration and sustainability planning. These align with funding routes that support professional development and future public-facing projects.
Potential Touring Targets
When I think about touring, I’m not trying to send my work everywhere and hope something sticks. I want to be more intentional than that. I’m interested in venues, festivals, and platforms where the work genuinely fits in terms of the space, the audience, and the wider conversation the venue is already having.
For me, touring isn’t just about getting a date in the diary. It’s about building relationships over time. It’s about being in dialogue with programmers, inviting people to sharings, taking part in scratch nights, and letting the work be seen as it develops. I want the journey of the work to matter just as much as the destination.
The venues I’m drawn to are the ones that support new ideas, solo performance, artist development, and work that can hold intimacy, risk, and conversation. So this shortlist isn’t random. It’s a group of places I can actually imagine the work living in, where EPHEMERAL, ATLAS, THE RUBBER CROWN and future solo projects could be performed, tested, and grown in front of the right people.
What I’m looking for is not just a stage, but a context. A space where the work can breathe, where it can meet audiences who are open to it, and where the relationship between artist, venue, and audience can grow over time.
City: Newcastle
Best fit space: Main Theatre
Capacity: 75
Space scale: Small / Fringe Studio
Status: Researching
Why it fits the work:
A good target for intimate new work because it champions new and developing work, welcomes touring productions, and offers wraparound support in fundraising, producing, marketing, access and community engagement.
Contact / Submission route:
Email Edward Cole/programming. Use programming@alphabettitheatre.co.uk for submissions, with edward@alphabettitheatre.co.uk and support@alphabettitheatre.co.uk also listed. Main phone: 0191 261 9125.
