𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭! 📷
Team assembles for 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚…𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙮 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩
Ben Castle Gibb and Sarita Gabony will perform contemporary ghost stories directed by BAFTA Winning Elle While, AD of Pentabus tinyurl.com/bd596taz

Tickets now on general sale!

🌊 Swallow The Lake
A Mercury Original in association with @hightidetheatre.bsky.social‬
Thu 2 Oct - Sat 11 Oct 2025
Written by Tassa Deparis
Directed by Yasmin Hafesji
🎟 mercurytheatre.co.uk/event/swallow-the-lake/

#MercuyTheatre #Essex #SwallowTheLake

📣 Calling all East of England Playwrights 📣

Meet our Artistic Director!

Join Titilola Dawudu at one of our upcoming Playwrights' East sessions for a creative workshop and Q&A.

Tue 22 July, 6.30pm - 8.30pm at Eastern Angles
or
Wed 23 July, 6.30pm - 8.30pm online
tinyurl.com/yx3u9te2

🎉 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲! 🎉

Clare Slater's final season announced today.

More info: hightide.org.uk/whats-on/

🎉 BigNews! 🎉

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿

We're excited to announce the appointment of Titilola Dawudu as our new Artistic Director and CEO. She will start her new role from Monday 16th June.

Read more: hightide.org.uk

Join us this week!
Rehearse with joy and power to achieve your play's goal. Join us as Waleed Akhtar takes a deep dive into playwrights in rehearsal.
Wed 21 May: 6.30pm
hightide.org.uk/event/playwr...

We are delighted to announce a second cohort is gearing up to begin their journey to embedding anti-ableism within their organisations. Come and join them!
rampsonthemoon.co.uk/organisation...
@sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social
@hightidetheatre.bsky.social @unicorntheatre.bsky.social @mayflower.org.uk

Interested in developing the next generation of playwrights from the East of England? Want to revel in the joy and power of new plays? Well then, you might just be our new Artistic Director!

Just two weeks left to apply

👀 hightide.org.uk/about-high-t...

Could you be our new Artistic Director/CEO?
Following the news that Clare Slater will step down this summer, we're pleased to announce that recruitment is now live.
Applications close Friday 11 April.
Full details: hightide.org.uk/about-high-t...

Our pals at @papatangotc.bsky.social have a very exciting new initiative for playwrights, with lots of free opportunities including workshops, mentoring, funding and more! Check out the #PapatangoStudio: papatango.co.uk/studio

Jerwood Foundation has awarded @hightidetheatre.bsky.social a total grant of £40,000 over two years to contribute to the Jerwood HighTide Writers Group, a 12-month paid writer development programme for six emerging writers.

Learn more 👇

jerwood.org/news/110-hig...

📸 Fourth Wall Photography

Join us for our first Playwrights' Gathering of 2025 where Anna Pool will lead you through the world of music theatre and sound-led dramaturgy.
Wed 26 Feb: 7pm
Mercury Theatre
Book your free place here hightide.org.uk/event/playwr...

I'm running this book club online tomorrow (Wed) for @painesplough.bsky.social on the beautiful Every Brilliant Thing, written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe.

Pay what you can!

From Orange Tree Theatre

📢 Applications are now open for our 2025 OT Writers' Collective!

If you're a mid-career playwright looking to share practice, build networks, gain industry insights, and develop new ideas, we'd love to hear from you.

orangetreetheatre.co.uk/about/news/2...

Bravo @hightidetheatre.bsky.social ! The Writers Group is back. Check out this brilliant opportunity 🔽
www.thestage.co.uk/news/hightid...

New Year, new projects to fund? Join us tomorrow night for a free online workshop with Karen Goddard to learn how to write successful ACE bids
hightide.org.uk/event/writin...

Resharing starter pack with new theatre companies onboard BlueSky #TheatreSky

@graeaetheatre.bsky.social
@wonderfoolsonline.bsky.social
@pentabustheatre.bsky.social
@hightidetheatre.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/4JxZjEB

Facilitator based in Suffolk or Norfolk? Take a look 👇
hightide.org.uk/hightide-blo...