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Theatre is a hugely competitive industry. Formal training is inaccessible to many. So how can you get your foot in the door?
>In 100 short, entertaining notes on everything from fundraising to failure, award-winning artistic director James Grieve uncovers the steps you need to supercharge your career. It's not what you know or who you know - it's how much you want to know.
In this entrepreneurial guide you will learn:
- how to get started as a theatre director without formal qualifications
- how to develop your craft on your own terms
- how to become an unstoppable force in the face of setbacks and failures
- how to navigate every step of production from rehearsal prep to press night
- how to grow as a leader, manager and CEO of your own career
- how to deploy practical techniques and inspirational ideas to sustain you as a
>Don't wait for the phone to ring. Get cracking. Be the director of your own destiny and force it into existence. It starts here.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
James Grieve MBE is an award-winning theatre director. He was formerly Artistic Director of the UK's national theatre of new plays Paines Plough where he oversaw 49 world premiere productions on tour to more than 300 places across the UK and internationally, and launched Roundabout; the world's first pop-up plug-and-play theatre. He has directed new plays by some of the UK's leading writers including Mike Bartlett, James Graham, Kae Tempest, Tom Wells, Penelope Skinner, Elinor Cook and Sam Steiner. His acclaimed productions of new plays, classics and musicals have been seen in the UK, North America and across Europe. James was formerly Associate Director at the Bush Theatre and founder of new writing company nabokov. He was awarded an MBE in 2020 for services to theatre.