Director call out - roots & eye R&D

Looking for a mid-career/experienced director to work on an R&D this October.

🎧 listen to audio of this callout https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iwunoQbLcRAjaxQG9uIpeq_6pRCFJaja/view?usp=drivesdk

 

Fee: £2,000 total fee, plus some travel expenses

Location: Waterside Arts, Sale, 

Dates:

  • Actor Auditions 30th September 2025
  • R&D Dates 13th - 24th October, 2025
  • Production Meetings Dates TBD


 

About The Project

Roots & Eye is an Arts Council-funded R&D. Led by Ada Eravama. The team will collaboratively create a devised theatre piece exploring the struggles of self-identity within a multi-generational Black immigrant family. It will also involve exploring creative access, particularly creative audio description for blind/visually impaired audiences.

At the end of a 2 week R&D process – including working with 2 actors, sound & set designers, and a movement director – there will be a sharing & feedback session for members of the community.


 About The Artist, Ada Eravama

I'm a writer, performer, and access consultant.  In this project, I’m growing my voice as a writer and taking note of techniques when integrating audio description during an R&D process, building a tool kit.

My work transforms the personal into universal stories rooted in lived experiences which audiences recognise in themselves or the people they love. I interrogate the complexity of community and its absence, asking what it means to belong and how shared rituals like gatherings create connection.

Specialising in integrated audio description, I reimagine access not as an add-on, but as part of a story’s creative DNA, shaping both how it is made and how it is experienced. My work invites moments of community, even if only briefly.


 

About You

You should apply for this role if:

  • You’re a director who loves a playful creative process
  • You’ve led devising processes before
  • You have experience in physical theatre and/or using music in theatre
  • You’re excited to experiment with form
  • You’re interested in creative access for blind/visually impaired artists and audiences
  • You want to help a Black visually impaired artist birth her ideas

We’re especially interested in hearing from disabled/neurodivergent candidates, and have a strong preference for Black/Global Majority directors


 

How to Apply

Send your CV and a covering letter to rootsandeye@gmail.com before 5pm Friday 4th September

Interviews will take place over zoom on Wednesday 10th September