Founder-led NPO Unlimited Theatre is inviting a UK-based artist to join them as a new Co-Artistic Director. Applications are open now, for artists who are interested in leading a company, either now or in the future. The specifics of the job description will be designed to suit the commitments and aspirations of the artist themselves. To match that spirit of openness and individuality, the company’s intention is to meet with everyone who applies.
Through working with the new Co-Artistic Director, Unlimited seeks to expand the breadth of skills and experience in their core team. The company are committed to promoting and creating equality and fairness and to reflecting the diversity of the communities they serve in their staff, freelancers, Board, artistic output and the audiences they reach. They are particularly keen to hear from candidates who are underrepresented in the arts sector and in the industry at large, due to the experience of barriers linked to ethnicity, class, disability, gender and sexuality.
The newly appointed Co-Artistic Director will join the company at an eventful time. Although for many, “theatre has been closed” for the last 18 months, 2020 and early 2021 has been a busy period of growth and reflection for Unlimited. Via their award-winning project Unlimited Space Agency (UNSA), in the first UK lockdown they ran The Astro Science Challenge: LIVE. This free STEM home-learning adventure saw almost 4,000 children take part in UNSA’s online astronaut training programme. More recently, they received a Blueprint R&D commission from Without Walls, to collaborate with Upswing Aerial to tell the hidden stories of women and people of colour in human space flight. There’s also a summer of outdoor touring ahead, with UNSA’s mobile HQ – The Space Shed.
Alongside this, the company has also been working internally to respond to the challenging events of 2020 – in particular the obvious need for a cultural reset, in the aftermath of the pandemic and in response to the re-ignition of the Black Lives Matter movement.
This is the first time in the company’s 24 year history that they are taking on a new Co-Artistic Director, following the departure of one of its founding members, playwright Clare Duffy, earlier this year.
Jon Spooner, Co-Artistic Director of Unlimited, said “While this last year has been hugely challenging and traumatic for so many people, we’ve not stopped looking forwards and asking each other how we can do more and do better. We couldn’t be more excited to meet and work with a new member of the company.”
Applications are open now for the Co-Artistic Director role. Deadline for applications: 6pm, Friday 9th July 2021. More information here.
