Trainee Director

The Trainee Director will work with the directing team (Co-Directors, Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin and Associate Director Jane Moriarty) across rehearsals through to the opening of Kyoto at the RSC.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with internationally acclaimed directors, who've worked across stage and screen, and be embedded in the creation process for this new production. The Trainee Director will support the directors throughout rehearsals, by taking notes, liaising with producers and production team and other duties as required. The successful candidate will be mentored throughout the process, develop their directing skills and experience and make new industry contacts.

This fixed term trainee role is being recruited by Good Chance to be managed in-house and will be embedded into the rehearsal process, working with Good Chance and the RSC.

This role is specifically aimed at candidates with a refugee or asylum-seeking background with lived experience of displacement or migration. We're interested in hearing from candidates with a minimum of six months' directing experience or one professional directing / assistant directing credit.

The role would involve working in London across 5 weeks of rehearsals and then in Stratford upon Avon for 3.5 weeks of technical rehearsals and previews, so is open to candidates based in either London or commuting distance from Stratford upon Avon (e.g. Birmingham/Coventry/nearby areas). Travel, accommodation and subsistence allowance for time spent working away from home base will be provided.

• Fixed term role, freelance contract
• Start: 29 April 2024 with 2 days remote work beforehand
• End: w/c 8 July 2024
• Time commitment: full time 29 April - 25 June, two days before 29 April and four days across the production run to visit the show from 26 June - 13 July
• £597.28/week for 9.5 weeks total
• Return standard train travel reimbursed, and accommodation and subsistence allowance provided when working away from home base