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.
Creative development opportunities for artists and professionals who want to deepen their practice, challenge how things are done, and build sustainable ways of working.
Fuel offers consultancy and mentoring support for creative sector professionals and organisations, grounded in our experience of devising, producing, strategy, partnership-building and care-led leadership. Our team also brings specialist expertise across artistic development, engagement, co-creation methodologies, fundraising (statuatory, T&Fs, individual giving), national and international touring, and sustainable production, enabling us to provide tailored support that responds to a wide range of challenges.
Our consultancy and mentoring 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 are available. Contact us at info@fueltheatre for a quote.
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.
Watch this space.
Creative partnerships with higher education institutions an hubs, sharing Fuel’s artist-led ways of working through placements, in-class teaching and extracurricular learning.
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.
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.
Our creative learning programme helps teachers and students explore the themes, stories and ideas behind our productions while supporting key National Curriculum objectives and the Artsmark framework. Our offer is tailored to each production and may include classroom resources, pre- and post-show activities, workshops, and opportunities to meet the cast and creative team.
Our free creative learning platform, Fuel Engage, is available to all educators. Create a free account to access a growing library of teaching resources, classroom activities and learning materials from our productions.
Want to stay in the know? Email [email protected] to join our teachers’ mailing list and be the first to hear about new resources, workshops and creative learning opportunities.
Part short course, part theatre club, Fuel Up Young is an artist-led creative journey for young people with basic creative training to explore career development ideas, build skills and confidence with live performance devising processes, and discover new ways of learning with sector-leading artists and practitioners.
Find out more about Fuel Up Young here.
Project dates and location will be announced soon. To express your interest in referring participants or signing up, contact [email protected].
We aim to connect all the citizens of this ecosystem and anyone who has been part of Fuel’s work – artists, participants, placements, freelancers and collaborators.
It’s a space to stay connected, share learning and continue relationships beyond individual projects. Members receive the Fuel Up Newsletter, with invitations to gatherings, training opportunities and alumni-only events.
Is this you?
If you’ve collaborated with Fuel in the past and would like to be part of the Fuel Up Network, email us at [email protected].
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.
For more information about all activities and upcoming opportunities, please get in touch on [email protected]