[louise0501]

hi there does anyone have any contacts within the theatre industry that migth be able to help me out with backstage work? e-mail addresses, mailing addresses would be great.
Please reply
Many thanks
Louise

[JIJane]

What kind of backstage work and do you have any experience/training? How old are you? And are you looking for temp and part time backstage work to pay the bills or are you wishing to pursue a career backstage?

[JIJane]

Then you are probably best off applying to full time technical theatre courses at drama schools. There are some excellent opportunties around.

[JIJane]

I don't work backstage, so am not the ideal person to ask but I suggest you check out the National Council of drama training website (you can get funding for these courses) www.ncdt.co.uk and also post in the backstage section of the stagetalk forum, which can be found under "talk" on www.thestage.co.uk

Or post here for the attention of Colourac who is a much experienced backstage "worker".

[Colourarc]

Or post here for the attention of Colourac who is a much experienced backstage "worker".

Thanks for the endorsment Jane!

Janes idea of checking The Stage is probably best as I, *ahem*, started my career in the year of the ark being built and got trained on the job ...... so to speak

Louise, if you are not sure what you want to do then it might be an idea to get a crew/lx job to see how things work. When you are there you can speak to the people you are working with & the SM team of the show and find out how/where they trained and what they recommend. Also to find out what you like doing and what you are good at!

Good luck with it all

Cx

PS there are posts here and on the stage site to point you in the right direction for applications etc