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Queer Actors, Muddled Muse Theatre

  •  South West
  •  Under £10K
  •  Full time
  •  Closes July 19, 2026
  •  muddledmuse.theatre@gmail.com
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Job Summary

Paid role for R&D exploring new queer play 'Sappho Could've Bathed Here'

Job Description

Fee: £1202 (£601 per week)
When: 07/09/26 - 18/09/26
Hours: 9:30-17:30, Monday-Friday
Where: The Front Room, Weston-super-Mare
Casting for: FLINTA queer actors with a playing age of mid-twenties to early-thirties

Apply by July 19th - audition pack linked below.

Job Requirements

Essential:
Queer
FLINTA (women, intersex, non-binary, gender-non-conforming, trans, agender)
Actors who are comfortable and confident with devising movement
Able to commute to the Front Room (Weston-super-Mare)
Experienced in improvisation
Comfortable with being playful and silly
Comfortable working with an Intimacy Director (specifically if auditioning for Frankie)

Desirable:
Experience working in Research and Development phases of theatre
Experience working on new writing
Interested in being a part of a long-term theatre project beyond this R&D
Based in the South West
Passionate about creating queer theatre

Job Responsibilities

This R&D will explore how the play can effectively externalise feelings of queer euphoria & community through magical-realism & movement, which will then inform the script's final draft.

The script is largely written through naturalistic dialogue, but the world incorporates magical elements, setting the play within an abstract world that reflects the character's queer experience.
We'll also use movement to delve into the subtextual, unspoken intimacy between the characters. We aim for the R&D to clarify the ensemble-movement language and style for the piece, which would then act as a springboard for a future rehearsal process.

We'll explore Scene 1 in depth as it's a key moment of magical-realism, euphoria & movement.

Please note: this scene includes a brief moment of explicit intimacy, so there will be an intimacy coordinator present for a day to help tackle that together.

You would then be performing in a sharing of Scene 1 to an invited audience on Thursday 17th September.

How to Apply

Audition Pack attached

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