Emerging Artist – Hoot! Children’s Comedy Festival
This Emerging Artist opportunity is part of HOOT!, the new Children’s Comedy Theatre Festival created and produced by Dirliebane Theatre Company in collaboration with Perth Theatre.
Dirliebane specialise in clown theatre for babies, children, young people, and their families, creating gentle, character driven clowning that is naïve, optimistic, fun, light, and full of heart. Their work centres on strong, engaging characters that young audiences can connect with, laugh with, and see themselves in.
The Hoot! Children’s Comedy Theatre Festival marks an exciting new chapter for Dirliebane as they expand this ethos working with a wide variety of companies and artists, and creating their first Artist-in-Residence programme, celebrating humour, creativity, and the power of laughter. This programme places professional artists directly into schools to inspire pupils and co-create joyful, original work.
Role Overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic, curious, early career arts practitioner to join the Hoot! Children’s Comedy Festival as an Emerging Artist. You will work closely with the Artist in Residence, supporting comedy focused workshops in primary schools and contributing to the development of a brand-new performance for the festival. We are looking for two emerging artists who want to create work with and for children and young people, want to gain experience in participatory work, facilitation and workshop delivery and have a developing practice in comedy, theatre, clowning, storytelling, or related performance disciplines.
Alongside hands on creative experience, you will receive four dedicated training days designed to support your artistic development, build confidence, and deepen your understanding of clowning, comedy, and participatory practice with children and young people.
We are actively seeking people from Perth and surrounding areas, and we welcome applications from people who feel they’ve had fewer opportunities because of the financial circumstances of their background.
Full job specification; Emerging Artist Job Specification
Application Cover Sheet; Emerging Artist Application Cover Sheet
Application Form; Application Form Emerging Artists
To apply – please read the job description. If you want to apply for the role, please prepare your CV, download and complete the Application Cover sheet, download and complete the Application Form and send all three to info@dirliebane.org.uk
If you need support or reasonable adjustments to submit your application in this way, please let us know by emailing info@dirliebane.org.uk