ARC supports the development of professional artistic practice through our Associate Artist and Companies scheme. The scheme provides practical guidance and support to a range of theatre and dance companies, spoken word and digital artists.
Support packages are tailored to meet the needs of indivdiual artistis and companies but include providing rehearsal and performance space, support for artistic development, business and funding advice, advocacy and other forms of mentoring.
ARC currently supports the following Associate Artists and Companies:
Vivid Theatre CompanyAssociate Company - Theatre Company |
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Vivid Theatre Company was established in 2006 with the simple aim of creating clear, well acted professional theatre. This is at the heart of all their work. They are committed to the idea of ensemble performances through the collaborative work of actors, directors, technicians and playwrights. Vivid’s mission is to display the diversity of theatre and to nurture artists and creative relationships. Vivid performs outside of the North East but the company roots are deep within this area, particularly the Tees Valley. They also regularly undertake educational work at schools, colleges and businesses providing actors for various forms of business and education improvisation. As well as their Associate relationship with ARC, Vivid also perform regularly at Theatre Royal Newcastle. They have performed at various festivals including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Stockton International Riverside Festival and the Newcastle TRY Festival. Past productions include The Collector, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, After Darwin, Closer and A Life in the Theatre as well as sell-out five star reviewed shows including Our Country's Good, Woyzeck, The Local Stigmatic and The Government Inspector. |
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Kate FoxAssociate Artist - Spoken Word |
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Kate Fox is a Newcastle based writer, comedian and poet. She writes topical, funny poems for two million listeners on Radio 4's Saturday Live and has been hired to write poems for BBC2's Daily Politics Show, BBC2's Chelsea Flower Show coverage, conferences, schools and festivals. She delivers workshops in comedy, performance poetry, news poetry and CPD for teachers and arts professionals in creative writing and performance projects. She has won several poetry slams and the 2006 Andrew Waterhouse Award from New Writing North. She rhymes quite a lot, but sometimes… not. She’s a passionate advocate of the power of performance poetry to give people a voice, has run successful gigs, events and workshops to this end and is currently on the board of the national performance poetry organization Apples and Snakes. Born in 1975 in Bradford, she loves Northernness, Dr Who, the sea, chocolate, Leonard Cohen, diagnosing people with psychological issues and laughing. Kate Fox initially became an ARC Associate Artist through the Live Literature Consortium's Lit Up programme (www.litup.org). Along with New Writing North, ARC co-produced Kate's first one-woman show, Kate Fox News which following a successful four star run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, toured nationally in Autumn 2010. |
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Match TheatreAssociate Artist - Theatre Company |
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Match Theatre Company develop new writing for contemporary theatre through engaging audiences in the development of new work. |
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Rabbit DamageAssociate Artist - Theatre Company |
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Rabbit Damage is the North East's freshest live performance company creating intelligent total theatre that provokes, entertains and fires the imagination. Rabbit Damage is the Bridging the Gap Associate Company 2010, a join initiative between ARC, The Maltings, Berwick and Theatre Royal, Newcastle. Rabbit Damage performed Wherever I Lay My Hat at ARC in September 2010. |
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Michael EdwardsAssociate Artist - Spoken Word |
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Michael Edwards is a Stockton-based writer and performer. As well as working solo, he is also a member of Monkfish Word Tank Collective. Mike has been an Associate Artist at ARC since autumn 2009, and has worked with Chief Executive Annabel Turpin over a number of months to develop his first full-length solo show. Mike performed his comic and poignant monologue The Life and Deaths of Dominic Statton, charting the trials of being involved in the Grim Reaper industry, to sell-out crowds at ARC last September and returned this March due to popular demand! |
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Monkfish Productions and WordTank CollectiveAssociate Company - Spoken Word |
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Monkfish Productions is Tyneside’s very own hub of multimedia spoken word and performance poetry. It is a Tyneside based company specialising in producing new work in spoken word, performance poetry and live literature. Since 2007, it has fused the word with a range other art forms, including film, music, character comedy, theatre and even ventriloquism. Monkfish works in partnership with poets, a range of artists, venues and other partners to make exciting things happen. So far, their work has mixed performance poetry with ill-fated punk heroines, a funeral, death himself, a saucy man-eating ventriloquist doll, a nasty wedding, radioactive skittles, beans on toast and a spoof South Bank Show. Monkfish WordTank Collective is made up of Michael Edwards, James Fisher, Robbie Hurst, Simon Hymers, Claire Morgan and Viv Wiggins. WordTank is an eclectic mix of performance poets, actors, filmmakers and improvisational comics – all driven by an insatiable taste for spoken word and what it can do. Monkfish WordTank Collective worked with ARC on the development of The Dead That Never Lived, a funeral service with a difference, where ARC was transformed into a funeral chapel to pay tribute to many deceased fictional characters including Scrooge McDuck, Darth Vader, Cathy from Wuthering Heights and Chucky to name but a few! |
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