National Theatre Wales and Wales Millennium Centre are seeking to appoint an experienced, highly motivated and energetic individual for the following vacancy.

City of the Unexpected – Dahl Readings Co-ordinator

You will be responsible for sourcing and coordinating the talent for the staged readings which are part of the Dahl centenary celebrations. An extraordinary weekend of the unexpected in the City of Cardiff. The readings will take place in unexpected locations…

It’s just been officially announced that at the end of the year I’ll be leaving National Theatre Wales to become Artistic Director of the Manchester International Festival. 

My time at NTW has been a truly wonderful experience, and the community of artists and enthusiasts I have had the privilege to be part of here has had a massive impact on me.  So while there will be lots to say over the coming months, I wanted to start by saying a huge thank you to everyone in the NTW community…

Am on the train to Merthyr Tydfil, trying to keep up with my life coaching!  Our project with the brilliant Blast Theory - Karen - launched yesterday in the iTunes App Store (Android follows soon), while I'm rehearsing Mother Courage in Merthyr Tydfil.  Even for NTW with all our digital work, it's unusual to have a…

Our friends at BBC Writersroom have just released an incredibly exciting and ambitious new piece of work online.  Working with leading UK writers and a top production team, The Last Hours of Laura K is a ground-breaking digital experience placing the audience at the heart of the story. Using 24 hours of footage from the fictional surveillance programme, SaturnEye, this is a disconcertingly intimate, unfiltered and impartial look into Laura’s last hours before her death. As Kate…

Thanks for all the fantastic responses to our Year 5 announcements last week.  We've really enjoyed launching our new programme in such a unique way, and we're glad you all seem to have enjoyed our week of video gifts!

But why stop there?  As well as the five large-scale productions we told you about last week, there are lots of other things going on at NTW, including five more projects which will be central to our work for the year. 

Here are the details:…

Great to get such wonderful feedback to the first three of our Year 5 shows over the past few days.  I have to say, even though I've known what is in each of the video gifts, I've still been delighted, and sometimes a bit surprised (I'm not very good at waking up so anything at 8am surprises me) to get the gifts on my phone each morning.

Thursday is a little different in style - I hope you enjoy it, it's one of my favourites.

And yes - at three of five we're now more than half…

We've been having great fun this morning with the first day of our Year 5 Launch.  We've announced one show today - with more to come throughout the week.  If you weren't one of the clever folk who signed up for a morning wake up message with a digital gift and full details, don't worry, the info will be released at nationaltheatrewlaes.org at 12 noon.

And you can add yourself to the morning VIP list by texting NTWY5 ENG…

In NTW's Year of Surprises - here's one more to round off 2015: 

Thanks to online digital arts platform The Space, we've been able to create a wonderful interactive web-world build from the elements of Raw Material - the site specific performance created as the opening of our Year 4 programme back in May by Marc Rees and Jon…

Out of a truly excellent field of candidates, it was a great pleasure to award the Wales Drama Award 2014 to up and coming writer Kelly Jones this year.  

The finalists were an even mix of theatre and TV writers, but Kelly in particular stood out as someone who has vibrant ideas for every form of drama.  Her script, Tammy, demonstrated a unique voice and a willingness to take risks that impressed all of the judges.

While it wasn't part of the judging process in any…

Some of you may remember a visit to NTW a couple of years ago by Kosovan Playwright Jeton Neziraj.  He's been a busy man since then and I thought people would be interested to read a very informative interview with him that was conducted by Margarita Russolello as part of New York's Between the Seas Festival, where his play 'One Flew Over the Kosovo Theatre' is receiving its North American…

NTW, BBC Cymru Wales and BBC Writersroom are all thrilled to be launching the 2014 Wales Drama Award.

With a first prize of £10,000, and two runners up prizes of £1,000, the award is unique in accepting entries in any full-length drama format - including, TV, theatre, film, radio, digital - underlining the versatility of today's writers across many media, and the wealth of platforms available to them.

The competition is open to any writer residing in Wales. Writers must…

Following an exciting discussion about dramaturgy in Wales inspired by last year's Dirty, Gifted and Welsh event and continued in our online Writers' Group, NTW has now appointed a group of six dramaturgs to work with the company over the next year supporting writers and exploring the characteristics of theatre writing in Wales.  We had an…

As a result of last years’ Dirty, Gifted and Welsh event, and a very interesting follow up discussion in the Writers Group on this network, I’m pleased to announce today that NTW is setting up a new Dramaturgy Project, to explore the role of the dramaturg in theatre in general and NTW in particular.

The group will involve six ‘dramaturgs’ – four of them playwrights and two not.  The group will meet…

We’re delighted today to let everyone know about the next show in our ‘Year of Surprises’ – Mametz, by Owen Sheers.

A brand new commission from the writer of NTW’s acclaimed The Passion, Mametz is inspired by Owen’s widely-admired poem Mametz Wood, and takes place in Usk, Monmouthshire.  The production runs from 24 June to 5 July, and tickets will go on sale on April 4. 

Mametz will give audiences a vivid glimpse into life – and death – in the…

As we head toward the first show in our ‘Year of Surprises’ – Raw Material, we’re calling out again to people who might like to come and spend the year with us as our Resident Artist. Some of you may remember this initiative from last year, when, out of an amazing range of applications we chose visual artist Kyle Legal to join us for the year. 

Once again this opportunity is open to artists from all sorts of backgrounds and art forms.  From ballet dancers to…

Here's an interesting initiative from James Tyson:

International-Peformance-Festival-Cardiff-Workshop-Group

7.30pm, Chapter, every Thursday till June

In June 2014, James Tyson (Intangible Studio) is directing a new International Performance Festival in Cardiff, at Chapter Arts Centre and around the city. The festival will provide an opportunity to engage with artists whose works…

Here's a powerful interview with Meltem Arikan  - the Turkish writer who is in exile in Wales alongside her colleagues after hostile government reactions to their bold production Mi Minor. Well worth a read. Meltem talks with great insight about the role of theatre in society, and is also a very interesting thinker about the role of digital in today's world:

"We are in a…

Here's a powerful interview with Meltem Arikan  - the Turkish writer who is in exile in Wales alongside her colleagues after hostile government reactions to their bold production Mi Minor. Well worth a read. Meltem talks with great insight about the role of theatre in society, and is also a very interesting thinker about the role of digital in today's world:

"We are in a…