Develop Your Career: Theatre & Dance

7 tips for performance careers

Most artists balance a variety of part-time roles to provide extra income. Image: Diego Andres Spano, clown.
Working in performance does not always provide a constant income. Most artists balance a variety of part-time roles and should always consider sources of future income.

Amy Vaughan approached Caroline Felton about becoming her mentor.

How creative mentoring works

Amy Vaughan was theatre manager of The Junction, Cambridge when Caroline Felton joined as interim CEO. They both spoke about how their mentoring relationship works, and the benefits to them.

There is a huge untapped market for utilising arts venue spaces.

Get income from arts venues

Lucy Povey is an experienced events manager and venue consultant. She works with venues to help them reach their potential by maximising income from the hire of their event spaces.

Most of the successful West End producers started small and have spent their lives deep in theatre.

Producing musical theatre

Anyone can be a producer – all you need is absolute determination to get a show on stage, a source of money to back you, a network of the best possible creative talent, access to a theatre, skills in budgeting and marketing, and the luck of being in the right place with the right show at the right time.

Pricing – deciding how much to charge by looking at pricing and value from the customers' point of view.

How much should you charge?

Devising a pricing policy is one of the most important decisions creative entrepreneurs make about their businesses.

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