Theatre Workshop Facilitator (freelance)

Bedford Creative Arts is looking for a theatre professional to run weekly (term-time only) theatre sessions for non-professional Bedford migrants, including refugees, asylum seekers and first-generation migrants living in Bedford, until Autumn 2026 and potentially beyond. Beginning as a co-facilitator/mentee working alongside a professional from LegalAliens theatre company, the role will take full responsibility of the group within 6 months. This includes learning our established methodology and collaborating with the current facilitator. The successful candidate will be leading creative theatre workshops and supporting a migrant theatre group to devise ‘sharing’s’ and small performances at the end of term, where possible. The mentoring theatre company, LegalAliens, will provide the successful candidate with advice and mentoring on the chosen techniques to use with a focus on forms of physical theatre to enable full participation by people from a range of migrant backgrounds. Workshops are anticipated to take place on Friday evenings from 7pm – 9pm at The Place Theatre, Bradgate Road, Bedford. The anticipated fee for this work is £4,000. An additional budget of £200.00 is available for travel expenses. For more details, please check out our Jobs & Callouts page: https://bedfordcreativearts.org.uk/work-with-us/job-opportunities/