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What we offer • Joining us • Half Moon Alumni
• Creative Capital
Half Moon produces a vast and diverse programme of activity throughout the year for young people (check out our Participatory work or our Professional Productions pages for examples), we can only produce this work by operating a large freelance pool of artists, including writers, directors, actors, designers, composers, technical staff and drama practitioners.
What we offer
- Continuing professional development - we want to ensure that the people we work with have the skills necessary and support them to ensure this is the case. This includes planning and evaluations for projects, skills sharing events and progression within our pool.
- An opportunity to be involved in innovative and interesting projects, making an impact on the lives of young Londoners.
- As an Approved Independent Theatre Council Manager, Half Moon employs freelance artists on a one off project or short term contract basis with appropriate terms and conditions, including payment, in terms of fees or weekly salaries in line with sector wide standards.
Joining us
As you can imagine we receive many requests from theatre artists asking to work with us. Below is some information about how to get involved with Half Moon.
Workshop pool: We recruit both on an ad hoc basis, when there is a skills gap in our pool and also hold a recruitment day around once per year. If, after reading these pages, you feel that you have something to offer us and we have something to gain from working with you, please forward your CV to Half Moon, 43 White Horse Road, London E1 0ND, or youth@halfmoon.org.uk.
Actors: We cast on average twice per year (traditionally in the spring and summer). Unfortunately we cannot keep endless headshots and biogs on file, so look out for our casting specs which we will send out to agents and Acting Co-ops and post on Spotlight Interactive.
As with all Half Moon employment, we are particularly interested in hearing from groups under-represented, including Black, Asian and Disabled people.
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Half Moon Alumni
We have and continue to work with some wonderfully talented artists. Actors from our professional plays have gone on to many and varied projects.
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Freema Agyeman, played T in When Snow Falls and went on to star in BBC's Doctor Who as Martha Jones and in the BBC adaptation of Little Dorrit.
Freema Agyeman and Daryl Beeton
Production: When Snow Falls
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Angela Michaels, Half Moon's Associate Director, is also a well-respected actor, director and practioner in the industry. She directed both We Are Shadows and Locked In and directs for Tell Tarra - a company she co-founded, dedicated to producing new Black British writing.
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David Lane, writer of Half Moon’s hugely successful show Begin/End was nominated for the prestigious Meyer Whitworth Award in 2010. Funded by the Royal National Theatre, the Meyer Whitworth Award is one of the largest annual monetary prizes for playwriting in the UK and champions the work of emerging playwrights.
If you have worked for Half Moon in the past or were a member of our youth theatre and have a success story to tell, please get in touch - we'd love to add you to our list of stories to inspire future generation of Half Mooners.
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Creative Capital
Half Moon is part of London's Creative Capital programme funded by Arts Council London. The programme aims to establish Half Moon as a key information and advice centre for theatre artists working with disabled communities.
Half Moon will share increasingly recognised expertise in delivering youth theatre/workshop sessions tailored to the specific needs of young people with disabilities. We aim to nurture and advise artists and arts professionals working in youth theatre/workshop scenarios delivering specialised services.
For further details, please visit: www.creative-capital.org.uk
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