Futures Festival
Applications for Futures Festival are now closed.
Each year Pleasance commits to supporting six London based theatre makers/writers for a two year residency as our Associate Artists, providing them with the transformative tools to take their work and craft to the next level. We asked them to curate a festival based around themes of their choosing. Futures Festival is the result!
Futures Festival showcases developing productions from leading independent performance makers and companies.
Futures Festival Spring 2024
This spring's Futures Festival themes and curators are:
Week 1 - The Future Is Trans with The Enby Show
A week of performances that platform positive and active representations of trans people.
Week 2 - The Future Is Booming? with Worklight Theatre
A week of performance which explores economics, inequality, greed and/or the cost-of-living crisis.
Week 3 - The Future is East African with OommoO.XYZ
A week of performances that platform AfroFuturism through an East African Lens.
You can find the full spring Futures Festival season here.
- 2 performances and 100% of the box office revenue for the show
- Technician provided by the Pleasance
- 1 day of rehearsal space
Futures Festival takes place in our Studio and each night you can expect to perform alongside the other curated shows in your given week. Shows must be a maximum of 60 minutes in length with a 30 minute shared turnaround between each show, with this in mind your show needs to be easily strikable with a compact set. While Futures Festival is a work in progress festival, shows need to have had some development ahead of making an application be this a reading, R&D or scratch.
Unfortunately our Studio space is not wheelchair accessible.
The timeline for opening applications for the next Futures Festival has not yet been confirmed. You can keep up to date by following our artist development X account or signing up to our artist newsletter.
If you have any questions about this opportunity, please get in touch on [email protected].
Futures Festival is supported by The Leche Trust & Noël Coward Foundation.
