A paid opportunity to work as a trainee assistant on a Young Vic show
The Trainee Assistant Director role provides an opportunity for a director or theatre maker to gain experience working on a show at the Young Vic. The opportunity is to support the assistant director in rehearsals, previews and run of a show will provide the trainee assistant director experience of the workings of the rehearsal room, the relationships between the creative team, the craft of the actor and the process of making a show from first day of rehearsals through to opening night. They will have the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in a supported environment working alongside an assistant director and director on a professional production.
Recent Jerwood Trainee Assistant Directors include:
- Nathanael Campbell (Passing Strange)
- Elodie Wilson (A Face in the Crowd)
- Neemrit Gill (The Collective)
- Neve Adams (Girl in the Machine)
- Aoife Scott (The Little Foxes)
Trainee assistantships are attached to shows, and therefore are filled on a show-by-show basis. Any available opportunities will be advertised on this page, and taken down when they are filled. Outside of recruitment cycles, we regretfully cannot accept or respond to CVs nor requests for placements on shows.
Traineeships are a key part of the Young Vic’s Jerwood Artist Development Pathway. This Pathway is generously supported by the Jerwood Developing Artists Fund.
