Protected: Fuel Up

Fresh development for adventurous learners.

Fuel Up is Fuel’s creative development and learning programme. It brings together training, mentoring and creative opportunities for young people, early-career artists and sector professionals – sharing what we’ve learned over twenty years of artist-led producing, and creating space to experiment and learn. Come to explore the big questions of our time offstage and backstage.

About Fuel Up

Fuel Up exists for people who want to grow through creative practice: whether you are an artist developing your work, a young person discovering new possibilities, or a professional seeking fresh ways of thinking and working. Fuel Up sits alongside Fuel’s artistic programme: creating opportunities that go beyond individual productions, while being shaped by Fuel’s artists, staying connected to the same big questions of our time and creative spirit.

Fuel Up is:

Artist-led – each offer is curated or facilitated by artists and practitioners connected to Fuel.

Rooted in practice – learning through doing, making mistakes and achieving successes.

Brave and inclusive – prioritising underrepresented voices and widening access to the sector.

Connected – linking participants to Fuel’s wider artistic work and community of practice.

What We Offer

INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT

Creative development opportunities for artists and professionals who want to deepen their practice, challenge how things are done, and build sustainable ways of working.

INTENSIVE TRAINING

Global Majority Puppetry Intensive: a 3-week intensive training space for Global Majority actors and practitioners looking to expand their puppetry practice. Led by Fred Davies (Life of Pi, The Witches, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, There’s a Bear on My Chair). Find out about the 2024 pilot here.

2026-2027 dates coming soon.

Sustainable Design Intensive: a practice-led intensive for stage designers and production managers, exploring sustainable approaches to design and touring across live performance.

Coming Summer 2027/Autumn 2028 or coming soon.

CONSULTANCY & MENTORSHIP

Fuel offers consultancy and mentoring support for creative sector professionals and organisations, grounded in our experience of producing, strategy, partnership-building and care-led leadership.

This work supports individuals and organisations to navigate change, develop sustainable models and embed inclusive practice. This offer is available to individuals and organisations by enquiry.

Mentoring and shadowing: starting from £80/hour. Consultancy: starting from £100/hour. Bundles available. Contact us at info@fueltheatre for a quote.

FORMAL EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS

Creative partnerships with schools and higher education institutions, sharing Fuel’s artist-led ways of working through placements, in-class teaching and extracurricular learning.

PLACEMENTS

Since 2021, Fuel has hosted placements across producing, production, stage management, applied theatre and cross-disciplinary practice.

We work regularly with partners including Syracuse University, Goldsmiths, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and RADA, offering flexible placements that respond to course and assignment needs.

“I could spend so many […] cards talking about all the good this position has done for me, but just know that I feel like I have grown so much as a person and professional in my time at Fuel, and I am so deeply grateful […] It really made such a huge impact”, Ada, Syracuse University, 2023.

This offer is available to Higher Education partners by enquiry.

MASTERCLASSES & LECTURES

We curate curricular and extracurricular programmes, lectures and masterclasses, to respond to the needs of your modules. Our producers and artists are experienced facilitators, working responsively with students and institutions.

Find our more about our current offer here (add link to GDrive doc once signed off) OR this offer is available to Higher Education partners by enquiry.

SCHOOLS

Coming soon.

FUEL UP YOUNG: TOMORROW’S PROFESSIONALS

Artist-led creative journeys for young people to explore ideas, build skills and confidence, and discover new ways of learning with sector-leading artists and practitioners.

Coming soon.

Stay Connected

Fuel Up is developing over time, and new opportunities will be announced.

To hear about upcoming Fuel Up offers, open calls and events – alongside updates on Fuel’s artistic programme – sign up to the Fuel newsletter or follow Fuel on social media.