Funding & Development Opportunities for Theatre Artists
We know how tricky it can be to keep up with the ever-shifting world of funding and creative support—so we’ve done a bit of digital foraging on your behalf. Like good magpies, we’ve gathered links, tweets, e-shots and mailouts into one handy spot, packed with funding and development opportunities for theatre artists.
This page is updated regularly as new calls and deadlines drop, so check back often.
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Upcoming Opportunities:
Axis | Axis Assemble Bursary Opportunity
The Axis Assemble programme is a 5-month bursary opportunity designed for artists at all stages of their careers, from all backgrounds. It’s about supporting your creative process, connecting you with other artists, and giving you the time and space to develop your ideas. Recipients will receive €2,000 bursary funding, mentoring, networking opportunities and more.
More details here.
Deadline: 13 June, 6pm
S+T+ARTS AQUA MOTION | Residency Open Call
Invites artists from all disciplines to apply for a unique interdisciplinary residency programme focused on the future of water in Europe. At a time when water scarcity, pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss are reshaping societies and ecosystems, AQUA MOTION supports artistic experimentation that engages with these challenges through collaboration with scientists, technologists, local communities, and water experts.
This Call for Artists seeks 25 artists to participate in a 9-month Residency, followed by a 4-month Scale-Up programme, hosted across four European regions. Each artist will receive €40,000, mentoring, access to professional networks and more.
More details here.
Deadline: 13 June
Kilkenny Arts Office | Age & Opportunity Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Award
The Age & Opportunity Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Award in partnership with Kilkenny County Council Arts Office aims to support professional artists of 50+ to develop their practice, by creating time and space to think and reflect on their work and to bolster their peer network. This will be achieved through a dedicated bursary to attend a residency over the course of a week.
This award is a partnership between Kilkenny County Council Arts Office and Age & Opportunity and is in association with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.
More details here.
Deadline: 19 June, 4pm
Nasc Network Touring Commission 2025 | Open Call
Pavilion Theatre, together with the seven other Nasc Network of regional theatres, is currently seeking touring proposals from production companies or producers working in the performing arts interested in collaborating with the Nasc network on a tour to all the network venues in 2026.
More details here.
Deadline: Friday 27th June 2025, 12pm
S+T+ARTS AFROPEAN INTELLIGENCE (#AI) | Residency Open Call
S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence (#AI) opens a call for artists to support 10 artistic residencies in Nigeria, Egypt, Tunisia, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project will support 10 African* artists in their creation process, by providing digitals tools and Afro-European transversal expertise; encouraging them to reshape narratives that promote social justice, inclusivity and challenge cultural paradigms. In a context where artificial intelligence occupies an exponential place and will inevitably impact tomorrow’s societies, the project aspires to explore the uses of this technology to address topics that are at the core of Africa’s today’s concerns – either on local or more global approaches.
*To be an eligible applicant, proposals must be submitted by an individual artist or an artist collective who’s a permanent resident or a national of any African country.
More details here.
Deadline: 27 June, 10am UCT (11am)
Create l | AIC Scheme Bursary Award
The objective of the Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme Bursary Award is to support individual professional artists in any artform to develop their collaborative socially engaged arts practice. There will be two awards of €20,000 awarded in 2025, offering the artists time to reflect on, and develop, their practice. The recipient will also receive mentoring and additional support from partner organisations.
More details here.
Deadline: 21 July, 5pm
Culture Ireland | Regular Grant Scheme
Culture Ireland offers support to Irish professional artists, arts organisations and international presenters to present work by Irish artists at significant international venues and festivals. There will be four grant rounds in 2025 covering all windows of activity throughout the year.
More details here.
Deadline (for applications for funding to present work internationally from November 2025 onwards): 6 August, midnight
Áras Éanna Arts Centre | Open Call 2026
Áras Éanna are inviting applicants to apply for residencies on Inis Oírr for 2026. The successful recipient’s will be offered residencies that will be allocated on dates determined by the selection board. Artists at all stages of their professional life from emerging to well-established are welcomed, and they try and accommodate all artforms.
The residencies can be from two weeks to one month and Áras Éanna will provide return ferry to Inis Oírr, accommodation, studio space and a stipend which will be determined at a later date.
More details here.
Deadline: 15 August, 5pm
workspacebrussels | Research and Creation Residency for Performing Artists
This 1-3 week residency programme is aimed at Belgian and international artists working within the performing arts in the broad sense of the word (dance, performance, theatre, crossovers with other disciplines). The programme supports both research, experimentation and creation. Artists receive a flat rate of €750 per project, studio space, sharing opportunities and more.
More details here.
Ongoing, next closing date: 1 November 2025 (for a residency Aug - Dec 2026)
Workshops and Training
Rose Producing | Workshops for self-producing artists and early career producers:
Applying for Funding (Online, Zoom): 17 June, 10.30am - 12pm. Register here.
Project Funding: Strategy Workshop (Online, Zoom): Thursday 26th June, 2:30-4pm. Register here.
SAFE TO CREATE | Workshops
ANTI-RACISM Workshop (Online, Zoom): Mon 30 June, 11am – 1pm. Register here.
This workshop is open to artists, arts administrators, curators, and other arts and creative professionals looking to foster a more inclusive and supportive industry. The workshop provides practical guidance on embedding inclusive behaviours within your unique organisational context.
AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE Workshop (Online, Zoom): Thurs 3 July, 11am - 1pm. Register here.
This training is ideal for artists, arts and creative workers with a general understanding of diversity and inclusion who want to acquire a deeper knowledge and develop skills when it comes to intercultural competence and engaging across lines of difference and advancing diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Minding Creative Minds (MCM)
Is an organisation established to offer a free 24/7 wellbeing & support programme for any individual of the creative sector based in Ireland and Irish creatives while travelling. More details here.
SOME upcoming events with MCM (all online & free but registration is required):
Funding 101, with Joanne Ryan: 17 June, 6pm - 7pm. Register here.
Monthly meet and greet: 30th June, 7pm - 8pm. Register here.
Minding Creative Minds | Mentorship Programme
Applications for the MCM Nurture Mentorship Programme are now open. MCM’s mentoring programme is a fully funded programme for those who want to find career support in the creative community across Ireland. Mentees/applicants have access to events, networking opportunities, and more. Read more here.
