Budgeting and Fundraising For Theatre

Where: The Pleasance Theatre, Carpenter Mews, North Road, London N7 9EF

When: Friday March 29, 2:30-5 PM

Cost: £12 Concessions / £15 Standard 

Concessions are available for artists who are students, disabled, aged 60+, or members of a union.

Five free spots in each workshop are available to deaf, disabled, neurodiverse, Black, and Global Majority artists on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Access: Part of the Main is committed to meeting the access needs of all participants, including providing support workers and BSL Interpreters as requested. Please contact hello@partofthemain.com as soon as possible to arrange support.

About the Workshop

Creating a realistic and working budget for a theatre project can be a time-consuming challenge, let alone finding the money to match! In this workshop, Part of the Main Artistic Director Olivia Munk will guide participants in a practical exploration of how to make a budget and avenues to find funding for your work.

By the end of this workshop, participants will feel confident making their own budgets and seeking funding from diverse sources like Arts Council, trusts and foundations, individual donors, and related engagement activities.

About Olivia Munk

Olivia Munk is a theatre director and producer from Queens, NYC. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, she is Artistic Director of Part of the Main Productions, a Pleasance London Associate Company and winner of VAULT Festival’s Excellence in Accessibility Award.

Recent directing credits include Gentleman (Assistant Director, Arcola Theatre; The Arc: A Trilogy of New Jewish Plays (Associate Director, Soho Theatre); Ride (Associate Director, Curve Leicester, Southwark Playhouse, Charing Cross Theatre); The Tinker (Director, VAULT Festival); Bloody Mary: LIVE! (Director, VAULT Festival, EdFringe, Assembly at Coventry City of Culture, various venues NYC, UK Tour); and Beg For Me (Director, Mountview, The Pleasance, Camden People's Theatre).

Olivia has produced work with the Barbican, Soho Theatre, The Pleasance, Camden People's Theatre, The Park, Wandsworth Arts Fringe, Theatre503, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, VAULT Festival, Waltham Forest Council and Coventry City of Culture. Her work has been both nominated for and won Off West End Awards and shortlisted for the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence. She was a Senior Producer at Zoo Co, a theatre charity in Croydon championing deaf, disabled and neurodiverse artists and audiences, securing the company NPO status in 2022. A recipient of a Global Talent Visa to work as an artist in the UK, Olivia lives in South London with her corgi, Evie.