Hopscotch Theatre Company believes that children should be introduced to the best quality of theatre and performance as possible. This means that we seek passionate and talented artists from the UK to reach children and families across Scotland. We are committed to finding the best and appropriate cast members from Scotland and supporting emerging creatives on their career pathways. often casting Scottish-based performers in the first instance and committed to the development of their artists in Scotland and beyond.

Hopscotch Theatre Company firmly believes in including artists from diverse backgrounds and cultures on the basis of sex, gender, marriage and civil partnership, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race (including ethnic origin, colour, nationality, and national origin), disability, sexual orientation, religion and or belief, age, and whether they are drama school trained or not) in all its projects whether productions or outreach. When casting for a role that is culturally specific, we are committed to first casting a performer from that culture. However, we consider artists from diverse backgrounds for every role, not just those written with specific personal characteristics.

Over the next three years we aim to diversify our casts, so that children can see themselves reflected in the stories and work we share. This means that performers with protected characteristics will increase. We operate an inclusive approach to the casting of all roles and ensure that casting sessions take place at fully accessible venues when possible and arrange access needs if rehearsing and auditioning at our studio in Govan.

We hold ourselves accountable to action on diversifying our workforce. We commit to becoming an anti-racist organisation We aim to identify, acknowledge and work to eradicate systemic racism within our organisation and seek opportunities to engage with others about anti-racism. We hold our company accountable and open to questioning and to being wrong is the key to leading well. We want to stand in solidarity with all those who are peacefully protesting and we hear the demands for change from our staff as well as artists, colleagues, supporters and the wider community. We will seek external guidance on how we can better our recruitment processes, what succession plans or programmes we can put in place to enable more people of colour to rise to leadership positions within our company.

All performers who are offered paid work at the Company are asked to complete an anonymous diversity monitoring form to help us monitor our progress.

AUDITIONS

Our shows are cast by the director of each production, supported by the producer and wider artistic team at hopscotch Theatre Company. 

The casting requirements of all productions are advertised on our website, social media channels and industry representatives such as Creative Scotland. Breakdowns are sent to all UK agents. In the event that we are looking for more specialised roles we often reach out to our peers to share the news and generate interest in our work, especially those working and producing theatre for children.

GETTING IN TOUCH

We encourage artists, performers and actors to get in touch and keep us informed with a sample of your work, CV and headshot. We regularly update our information so we encourage you to keep us up to date. We are more than happy to arrange a meeting at our office if you have a specific request or would benefit from meeting the team. Please contact us, or email the address below if so.

We also regularly attend shows throughout Scotland and occasionally elsewhere. If you are working on something and want us to drop by please let us know and we can arrange this. We are keen to see and meet performers and have an in-depth, current working knowledge of the industry.

CONTACT

The preferred method of contact is via email to info@hopscotchtheatre.com

When writing you should include your Spotlight link (if you are on Spotlight), and a headshot and CV under 1MB in size if not.

Our Casting policy was last updated in April 2022, we review our policies on an annual basis.