This festival is generously funded by The Carne Trust

WHAT KIND OF Live on stage. SHOWS? Enjoy from home or at our theatre. We want small-scale work - this is not the moment for anything with a larger cast, high costs, or big technical demands FESTIVAL For 1/2/3 performances: We will reopen our doors this summer with a celebration of theatre and the people who make it. The Footprints Festival • One-person (or one-plus-pianist) cabarets or standup will celebrate LOTS of our freelance artists and their different • Solo/two-person shows - perhaps that have already had a life so stories. We are looking for pitches of small-scale shows we won’t take long to rehearse again could programme in the festival - if you have something that • Scratch nights or script-in-hand performances could be right, tell us all about it in the Google Form.

Footprints Festival will take place at the theatre during the For 4-8 performances: early summer. With luck, this festival will welcome audiences back to JST, probably in small numbers with social distancing. • Very small shows with a bit more audience appeal, probably But additionally, every piece will be captured on film to a with casts of one/two/three actors - perhaps that have already 2020. high standard, and broadcast at specified times to a ticketed had a life and can be inexpensively remounted (or you are audience online. preparing to take elsewhere) 15 Heroines, We want to make this accessible to a diverse range of theatre This is NOT prescriptive. artists and shows, so we are making the terms as favourable as possible. We will do lots of the work, so you don’t need to Please fill in the Google Form to tell us all about your idea. DON’T have any experience of producing your own shows to make this WORRY too much about it - it’s a starting point. We will definitely come happen. back to you with questions. Most people who are part of this will not be experienced producers. Dona Croll being filmed during Photo by Shonay Shote You bring us • Your small-scale show

We pay you • A guarantee of £500 per performance (plus a share of profit if it makes a profit - see below)

You promise • Not to hire anyone to work on your show without paying them the National Minimum Wage • To abide by our Covid-safety protocols.

We give you , 2020 • A stage manager who will run your tech, operate sound and lighting during performances, and make everything run

smoothly The Tempest • Stage management support with props, venue liaison and scheduling (we won’t give you an SM for rehearsals except tech) • The festival is intended to be created ‘without decor’ - with Michael Pennington in Photo by Robert Workman simple set-ups of our theatre space, lighting (and sound where appropriate) designs. We will provide a lighting designer to create a (simple) lighting design so your piece looks good on camera and in the space. Please note that while small tweaks can be made both the lighting and sound rig need to be universal for all shows. • Some simple options of how to arrange the theatre space (black box, with drapes, etc) - to be discussed SOCIAL DISTANCING • A high-quality filmed version of your show (some details below) • Our upright piano, if applicable We expect to be performing with social distancing in place. That means • Full marketing support. We are relying on box office income a typical audience size of 20--25. to fund Footprints Festival, so you can be assured that we’ll be working very hard to sell lots of tickets for you. This includes a full PR campaign, online marketing, advertising etc. LENGTH OF RUN You’re responsible for • Casting, rehearsing and designing your show (with our assistance where needed) Maximum 8 performances; we expect some shows (eg cabaret • Costume and prop maintenance concerts) will do 1/2 performances; plays may do more. This is all up

• Transport of props, costume, furniture and/or set pieces , 2019. for negotiation. to and from the theatre • Paying anyone involved in the show (apart from those listed above) • Securing the rights for your show if applicable

All’s Well That Ends Well Well All’s FILMING We might be able to help with , 2019. • Limited rehearsal space in the theatre We will choose a way of filming appropriate to the style and scale of • Producing support (budgets, contracts if you’re hiring anyone to your production. We might live stream some productions using fixed help you, etc) remote-control cameras (possibly in combination with a live camera The Ice Cream Boys • Additional one-off ‘enhancement’ funding if you cannot make operator or two). Other shows will be filmed in advance, with the your sums add up opportunity for a short editing process, before being broadcast ‘as live’. Gavin Fowler and Hannah Morrish in Gavin Fowler Photo by Matt Pereira

• Funding applications if you need them Bu Kunene in Photo by Robert Workman FINANCES/ GUARANTEES

We have structured this to eliminate your risk, so if things don’t go well and the show doesn’t make lots at the box office, you still get your guarantee. But if it goes well, you get a share. TICKET PRICES If your show makes a profit, ie if its box office returns exceed the guarantees we’re paying you, you will take a 50% cut of all the income above that breakeven point. Are set by JST. We expect a range of £10-£30 in the theatre and £5- £20 online, depending on the show, the length, who’s in it, what it’s The following examples are not binding or contractual but should about, etc. We may also do Festival Tickets, which we’ll apportion on a demonstrate roughly how the finances work. per-performance basis across the Festival box office returns.

Financial You do 4 performances. Example 1 VERY SHORT SHOWS We pay you a (ticket prices TBA and for non-refundable guarantee: 4 x £500 = £2000 guidance only) We may struggle to charge full prices for very short shows. If your It sells out at the theatre: 100 tickets x £20 = £2000 production is very short, do apply anyway, but we may come back to It sells 175 tickets online: 175 tickets x £10 = £1750 you to discuss a reduced guarantee, and/or including you as part of a Box office total of £3750 double- or triple-bill programme.

JST keeps the first £2000 (equal to your guarantee) JST takes 50% of the £1750 profit. We give you 50% = £875

Your total income for the four SCRIPTS performances is £2875. If there is a script for your show, please send it to [email protected]

Financial You do 2 performances. Example 2 We pay you a FILMED/ADDITIONAL (ticket prices TBA and for non-refundable guarantee: 2 x £500 = £1000 guidance only) Disaster! Another lockdown! MATERIAL No live audiences, but filming still allowed (as now) If you have archive footage of your show, please send it to At the theatre: £0 [email protected] It sells 80 tickets online: 80 tickets x £10 = £800 Box office total of £800 JST keeps the £800 (losing £200) (less than your guarantee) TELL US ABOUT IT You keep your guarantee so your total income for the 2 Please fill in the Google Form we’re circulating - if you cannot find it, performances is £1000. please email [email protected] Nathalie Armin in 15 Heroines: The Labyrinth, 2020. Photo by Marc Brenner OVER THE YEARS

During the 1930s, the basement of 16b Jermyn Street was home 1930s to the glamorous Monseigneur Restaurant and Club. The staff changing rooms were transformed into a theatre by Come Howard Jameson and Penny Horner (who continue to serve as early 1990s Chair of the Board and Executive Director today) in the early 1990s and Jermyn Street Theatre staged its first production in 1994 August 1994. on in... Neil Marcus became the first Artistic Director in 1995 and secured Lottery funding for the venue; producer Chris Grady also 1995 made a major contribution to the theatre’s development. “ I hope many In 1995, HRH Princess Michael of Kent became the theatre’s others will Patron and David Babani, subsequently the Artistic Director late 1990s of the , took over as Artistic Director have the until 2001. Later Artistic Directors included Gene David Kirk and opportunity to Anthony Biggs. work in such In 2012, the theatre won the Stage Award for Fringe Theatre of 2012 the Year. an important theatre – it’s In 2017, Tom Littler restructured the theatre to become a full- time producing house. an incredible 2017

place.” The Rosalie Craig

WHO WE “ Unerringly , 2018. Photo by Robert Workman.

directed ... no Stitchers ARE one in this tiny theatre dared Jermyn Street Theatre is the transferred to the West End Rattigan, Lillian Hellman, West End’s smallest producing and Broadway. , Stephen breathe. theatre. Led by Artistic and Sondheim, Tenessee Williams The Observer” and Andrew Dennis in Victoria Yeates , 2020. Photo by Robert Workman; Executive Directors Tom We’ve premiered plays by and Noel Coward. Emerging Littler and Penny Horner, Howard Brenton, Lorna French, talents mingle with the likes of the programme includes Alice Allemano, Steven Berkoff, , Sinead Cusack, Beckett Triple Bill Triple Beckett outstanding new plays, rare Timberlake Wertenbaker, Olivia Williams, Patsy Ferran, revivals, new versions of Juliet Gilkes Romero, Esther Nadine Marshall, Tuppence

European classics, and high- Freud, Gail Louw, Chinonyerem Middleton, David Threlfall, in Jermyn Street Theatre, 2020. Photo by Marc Brenner. quality musicals, alongside Odimba, Bryony Lavery, Sarah Lisa Dwan, Alan Cox, Doña

one-off musical and literary Daniels, and countless others, Croll, Rosalie Craig, Eileen 15 Heroines events. We collaborate with and we’ve rediscovered work Atkins, and our Patron, Michael Martin, 2020. Photo by Robert Docherty Workman; and Sinead Cusack in theatres across the world, by writers including Terence Gambon. (Clockwise from top) David Threlfall in Dog Walker and our productions have Rehearsals for Since 2017, Jermyn Street Theatre has been a full-time over 12,000 producing theatre. We normally create around ten full-scale audience members enjoyed our productions a year, often working together with regional theatres. free 13 hour The Odyssey We are a theatre run by freelancers, for freelancers. We try to provide a caring and supportive environment for everyone who over works with us. We get to know our audience members well, and 3,500 households bought tickets for our Friends and donors are an important part of our family. 15 Heroines

Our small seating capacity means subsidy and charitable support are essential to our business model. over 300 freelancers The theatre’s co-founder, Howard Jameson, continues as Chair of employed Trustees today. The theatre is led jointly by its other co-founder and Executive Director, Penny Horner, and its Artistic Director and Executive Producer, Tom Littler. “ Not only has 154 Sonnets read by stars and Jermyn Street recent graudates survived these By September we had set up and we produced an online our Opening Doors scheme performance of Emily Wilson’s twin disasters, over 50 Tiny Plays faciliated which sponsored three diverse translation of The Odyssey it has emerged groups of early-career artists with the Review to use our empty theatre space Bookshop, commissioned 12 as a stronger, 47 and allow them to workshop actors to create and perform more diverse, episodes of cabaret songs their new plays. 16 Creative bedtime stories from their performed in Sing For Your Associates, made up of some of different heritages through In more outward- Supper the applicants to our Opening Dreams We Wake, and co-

, 2020. Photo by Robert Workman. looking and Doors scheme, became part of produced a zoom production 16 our family. of A Christmas Carol with more exciting Creative Associates Guildford Shakespeare The Tempest supported Our artistic output flourished Company, starring Brian organisation towards the end of the year Blessed and Penelope Keith. than before.” 15 Whitney Kehinde in Whitney Kehinde The Stage female and non-binary playwrights commissioned to rewrite Ovid’s Heroides ADAPTING 12 bedtime stories TO from different heritages COVID-19 10 episodes of in-house podcast Fundraising work stabilised Zoom production of The Wind series In March 2020, closure of the our recovery over the course of in the Willows reached out to theatre due to the Covid-19 2020 and enabled the artistic and comforted our audiences. pandemic was almost output to continue. Digital 5 core staff members permanent. Despite the projects such as The Sonnet Behind the scenes, we held financial jeopardy we faced due Project, featuring drama school monthly online play reading to the closure of The Tempest graduates and household clubs, connected freelancers 3 and a catastrophic flood that names Olivia Colman and David to shielding audience members groups of early-career artists destroyed our workshop, Suchet, Sing For Your Supper for weekly phone calls and sponsored archives, and dressing led by Stefan Bednarczyk, a initiated the creation of over rooms, we were saved by the podcast series Prompt Corner, 50 miniature plays from generosity of a crowdfunding an audio version of One Million audiences across the UK. 2 appeal to our audience. Tiny Plays About Britain and a interactive Zoom co-productions 15 Heroines was our flagship 2020. Artistic Director Tom Autumn production in which Littler and Executive Director we commissioned 15 leading Penny Horner were recognised female and non-binary in The Stage 100 for their playwrights to adapt Ovid’s commitment to producing Heroides. Directed by Adjoa theatre in the most difficult of Top Ten Theatre of 2020 Andoh, Tom Littler and Cat circumstances. Robey and performed live from our empty theatre space then Jermyn Street Theatre is a captured by Digital Theatre +, charitable trust, Registered 15 Heroines featured a stellar Charity No.1186940. It cast including Olivia Williams, receives no regular funding or Nadine Marshall and Patsy grants, and many of its staff Ferran. are volunteers. Overheads and Praise for 15 Heroines from the press: production expenses are met In January 2021, we were by ticket sales and charitable awarded Fringe Theatre of donations. To find out more, the Year by The Stage Awards see Our Charity on our website. Broadway World for our efforts throughout

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An , 2019. “ “ deliciously unexpected haunting treat of the production highest order. Services Rendered For A JEWEL IN THE ” from a The Evening Standard CROWN OF THE plucky and dedicated . The Spy in the Stalls” Michael Lumsden and Sally Cheng in Photo by Robert Workman

Nearly 40,000 audience members have come to see our shows in our first two and a half years as a producing theatre. We work with theatres across the country, co- We have produced 15 world premiere shows in our 70-seat producing and touring space off Piccadilly Circus. premieres, revivals and classics with theatres 30 new plays have been published in the UK after beginning and Cumbria Scarborough here. Pattison. , 2019. Photo by Keith companies such as York

In 2020, our digital content on YouTube was viewed Julie Miss Guildford Shakespeare 117,896 times. Company, , The Oxford Bath Sonning Mill at Sonning, When producing shows, of our income comes from The Watermill 58% Theatre and the Box Office, with the remainder relying on charitable donations Guildford from the public, private funding and support from members of our Theatre Royal Bath. Newbury

Friends Scheme. James Sheldon and Charlotte Hamblin in Chichester

“ A set of gems 2018. “ In Jermyn Street Theatre’s “ A beautiful in a small intimate confines, every scene piece of black box. at 8.30, Tonight feels like an intrusion into Financial Times” theatre. some private moment, like ReviewsHub” eavesdropping on a stranger’s , 2017. conversation.

” The Blinding Light The Stage Miranda Foster, Nick Waring and Ian Hallard in Nick Waring Miranda Foster, Photo by Robert Workman. Gala Gordon in Photo by Robert Workman OUR TEAM

At Jermyn Street Theatre, we have a core team of five staff members, supported by a dedicated network of those who run the theatre building, produce its artistic output, and look after our Associate Artists.

Board of Advisory Board Trustees - new in 2021

Artistic Director/

, 2019. Executive Director/Co- Executive Founder Producer

Yet another The Ice Cream Boys “ Front of House Deputy Director Marketing and Artistic Associates Freelance triumph for Building Manager Venue Technicians Resident Producer and Box Office (part time) Graphic Design (advisory) Creatives Jermyn Street Theatre. Sardines” Interns/ Creative placements in Bu Kunene and Andrew Francis in Photo by Robert Workman Associates higher education REPRESENTATION

We have a commitment that at least 50% of all our onstage and offstage teams must be female each year. On shows between August 2017 and December 2020,

66% of our writers and production teams and , 2018.

57% of our actors “ This gem of About Leo identified as women. a play is as We also believe in producing , 2018 . theatre that is representational beautiful as it and empowering, and are keen to

hear from producers, directors, is profound. at 8.30 Tonight playwrights and their agents The Guardian” An

Phoebe Pryce and Susan Tracy in Phoebe Pryce and Susan Tracy Photo by Robert Workman “ from the LGBTQ+ community, extraordinary especially those who self-identify as trans and non-binary. relationships with, more Black, all actors, stage management and feat of Asian, and ethnically diverse creatives must be paid at least teamwork. We are actively seeking to employ, creatives. We are signatories to the National Minimum Wage. The Independent” and forge long-term working the Equity Fringe Agreement, so Ben Wiggins and Boadicea Ricketts in Photo by Robert Workman