Presenting a script or idea
We would be thrilled to receive and consider scripts and ideas from you.
Please send your script or outline of an idea to creu@theatr.com. We will send an e-mail to confirm that your work has been received and will aim to respond within three months to the date of that e-mail. Read more about our commissioning focus below.
Seeing your work
Let us know if there is an opportunity for us to see your work. If you could let us know at least a month in advance, we will try to ensure that a representative from the company is available to attend any presentation. Email creu@theatr.com with the details.
Drws Agored
Fancy a chat about theatre?
Drws Agored [Open Door] is an opportunity to have informal one-to-one chat via Zoom, over the phone, or via text with a member of Theatr Cymru's company staff to bounce and discuss ideas, introduce yourself, and ask for advice. Whether you’d like more information about scriptwriting, presenting ideas, producing, acting, budgeting, directing, stage management, marketing, work experience opportunities or technical talke, Drws Agored offers the chance to speak to a member of our team (a full staff list is available here). These sessions are available for anyone interested in creating Welsh-language theatre.
Please get in touch with a few sentences about what you’d like to discuss with us. This will help us choose an appropriate member of our team to chat with you.
If you’d like to arrange a chat via our Drws Agored programme, please email creu@theatr.com
Commissioning Focus for New Work
In order to ensure diversity, visibility and ingenuity, we have set a new commissioning focus for original work. The main focus is:
New or underrepresented voices, including artists from the Global Majority, from low socio-economic backgrounds, and disabled, Deaf and/or neurodiverse artists
Well-known artists who have not created original work for the company before
Collaborative and multidisciplinary work
We are committed to supporting and developing new and experienced writers and are trying to create a pipeline of new Welsh writing that is honest, inventive, and that sparks conversations. We will encourage writers to ask challenging questions in these challenging times, and we will offer training and development opportunities.
We also question who can be a 'theatre writer' as we provide training and commissioning opportunities for artists who create using their expertise in other disciplines - for example well-known or up-and-coming novelists and comedians.
Generally in our commissions, we try to ensure that someone from the majority does not write from the perspective of someone from a minority, or about experiences that are specifically relevant to a minority, unless there is a strong reason for doing so. We believe in the power of imagination to create characters and discuss issues, but we are also aware that 'lived experience' brings an important and authentic dynamic to creative work. We try to ensure that a playwright has a strong connection to the themes, background and identity of the main character, and close or nearby experience of the main issues. When this is not possible we consider co-authors and/or research support and consultants.