STUDY – INTERDEPENDENCE:
FREELANCERS AND ORGANISATIONS, 2020

This report was written by Freelancers Make Theatre Work and includes data gathered from over 90 producing organisations throughout the UK.

 The purpose of this study is to gather data on the relationship between performing arts organisations and freelance theatre workers. We hope it will be useful for anybody lobbying the government for further support of the UK performing arts industry and its freelance workforce.

Thanks to following organisations who took part in this report:

National Theatre | Royal Shakespeare Company | Almeida Theatre | Shakespeare’s Globe | Mercury Theatre | The Yard Theatre | New Wolsey Theatre | Regional Theatre Young Directors’ Scheme | Actors Touring Company | Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland | Camden People’s Theatre | Birds of Paradise Theatre Company | Chanje Kunda Productions | DanceEast | November Club | Kali Theatre Co. | Caspa Productions | Cultured Mongrel | Spare Tyre | somethingGraphic Ltd | Bridport Arts Centre | Minack Theatre | Garsington Opera Ltd | tutti frutti productions | Boy Blue | Lou Brodie | Proteus | Jermyn Street Theatre | Queens Hall Arts | Mimbre | Talawa Theatre Company | Cheshire Rural Touring Arts | Boundless Theatre | The Arts Development Company | Tangled Feet | Lung Ha Theatre Company | Activate Performing Arts | Turtle Key Arts | Visible Fictions | Perth Theatre at Horsecross Arts | LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) | Coney | Further Than the Edge | Kneehigh | Derby Theatre | New Earth | Unicorn Theatre | Fuel | 1927 | JMK Trust | Bradford Fringe | Theatre Iolo | Theatre Centre | Exeter Northcott Theatre | Northern Opera Group | Opera della Luna | Silent Opera | D’Oyly Carte Opera Company | The Opera Story | Opera A La Carte | CHROMA | Tête à Tête | Northern Ireland Opera | English Touring Opera | Lyth Arts Centre | Cambridge Handel Opera Company | Hampstead Garden Opera | Battersea Arts Centre | Hampstead Theatre | Soho Theatre | Action Hero | New Theatre Royal Portsmouth | Unfolding Theatre | dreamthinkspeak | Bush Theatre | Donmar Warehouse | Talking Birds Theatre Company | Red Ladder Theatre Co | Stellar Quines | Southbank Centre | Citizens Theatre | Curious Monkey Theatre | Shoreditch Town Hall | Northern Broadsides | The Old Vic | Theatre Royal Bath | Vital Xposure | Gecko | Z-arts | British Youth Music Theatre | J Clare Productions | HighTide | Welsh National Opera | National Theatre Wales | Vanishing Point | Arcola Theatre | English National Opera | Nottingham Playhouse | Sheffield Theates | Royal & Derngate, Northampton | Royal Opera House

 

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