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For Directors & Theatre Makers

TAKE CONTROL OF
YOUR OWN CAREER

For actors who want to make their own work and create new opportunities for themselves — your own voice, your own work, your own company to lead and stage it. Not Too Tame have made a brand name delivering high-octane, heart-on-sleeve, unique and charismatic work — from adaptations and self-written sellout shows to bold contemporary classics. We'll show you how to market, strategise, obtain funding and create partnership work and legacy to put your own stamp on the industry.

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▮ Two ways in

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Online Half Day

Online Half Day

Thursday 3rd December · 6pm–9pm

Half day · online

The practical, pragmatic side of starting and running your own company — and all the benefits that can come from it.

  • —Finding your voice and making your own work
  • —Setting up a company to lead and stage that work
  • —Marketing and strategy that actually lands
  • —Funding applications, including DYCP
  • —Partnerships and building a legacy
  • —Putting your own stamp on the industry

“Genius is talent set on fire by courage”— Henry Van Dyke

Back yourself. Invest in your own future.

£250.00

Pay the full £250.00, or split it into 3 interest-free instalments with Klarna.

In-Person Full Day

In-Person Full Day

Sunday 10th January 2027 · 10am–4pm · Warrington

Full day · in person

How we actually make the work in the space — the practical elements of staging and making shows for local communities and mid-scale stages.

  • —Making work in the room, not paper
  • —Staging for local site-specific venues and mid-scale stages
  • —Craft to create exhilarating shows with your own signature
  • —Making your work a theatrical event
  • —Budgets, branding and hidden advantages of making your own work
  • —How to make it so everyone wins; the audience, the venue and most importantly, YOU

“If you're going to try, go all the way.”— Charles Bukowski

Back yourself. Invest in your own future.

£400.00

Pay the full £400.00, or split it into 3 interest-free instalments with Klarna.

Who it's for

Actors, directors, writers and makers who want to stop waiting for the phone to ring — people ready to make their own work, find their own voice and build the company that stages it. You don't need a venue or a track record; you need something you're trying to make.

Who leads it

Sessions are led by Artistic Director Jimmy Fairhurst and the Not Too Tame team, drawing on 15+ years of building a brand from the ground up — self-written sellout shows, bold adaptations and work that tours.

Not sure which one?

Tell us what you're working on and we'll tell you honestly whether the online half day, the in-person full day or a mix of both is the right fit.

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