At a Glance
- Tasks: Help create and facilitate a unique theatre experience for children aged 0-3 and their families.
- Company: Join Travelling Light, a dynamic theatre company focused on early years engagement.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, hands-on experience, and the chance to develop directing skills.
- Other info: Local base in Bristol required; excellent opportunity for career growth in theatre.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in children's lives through innovative theatre and play.
- Qualifications: Experience in facilitating workshops with young children and families is essential.
The predicted salary is between 28392 - 31157 £ per year.
This is an exciting opportunity for an emerging professional from a participation background to develop skills in directing and gain insights into how to make theatre for a specialist age group (0-3s & families). As the Facilitator, you will help devise and facilitate a creative play offer that is part of the performance and play offer. You will tour with the show and lead activity.
Following on from a period of successful R&D, Travelling Light are developing a new offer for 0-3s and their families, ready for touring. Wonder Baby is a new high-quality, non-verbal theatre experience for early years, incorporating play and performance. Using movement and clowning, Wonder Baby explores physical play and its regulatory impact alongside the joyful experience of creating spaces for families and children to play together differently.
Project dates and times:
- Meeting: TBC w/c 7 September 2026
- Rehearsals: 21 September - 11 October 2026
- Tour: 12 - 31 October 2026
Please also consider the time needed for preparation work as listed in the recruitment pack.
Rate of Pay: £3525 (Planning Meeting £45, 3 weeks rehearsal at £580 plus meetings/evaluation, 3 weeks touring and facilitating at £580 per week)
Location: Rehearsals: Travelling Light studio, Wellspring Settlement, 43 Ducie Road, Bristol BS5 0AX. Run: Various Early Years and community settings in and around Bristol. Please note this role requires a local base in Bristol or the surrounding area. No relocation costs or accommodation is available.
Deadline: The deadline for applications is Wednesday 22 July 2026 at 9am. Interviews will take place on Tuesday 28 July at the Wellspring Settlement.
Person Specification
Essential experience:
- Experience of facilitating in a variety of settings, essential that you have facilitated work with early years.
- Strong working knowledge of facilitating workshops for children and families.
- Understanding of how to run and structure a play session.
- Working directly with children and families (especially in early years or community settings).
Desirable experience:
- Previous experience working on a theatre production.
- Experience working with early years practitioners.
- Experience of working with children and or families who are new to experiencing theatre and understanding of the barriers they face and how to create a welcoming experience.
- Experience of working in community or non-traditional theatre spaces.
Skills/Attributes:
- Applies creativity and imagination to their practice.
- Capable of collaborating effectively within a team and adaptable to different working styles and methods of others.
- Awareness of differing access needs.
- Willingness to develop and learn.
Qualities/Values:
- Shares Travelling Light's values of putting children and young people at the heart of all our work.
- Audience focussed - prioritising children as audiences and sharing Travelling Light's aim of inspiring children and young people through theatre.
- Passion for working with children and young people.
- A genuine interest in directing and facilitation and a desire to develop in both areas.
- The ability to multi-task and remain calm in a pressured environment.
- Commitment to collaborative working.
- Commitment to implementing the Theatre Green Book.
To apply please send a CV and short (no more than 2 sides of A4) covering letter OR a voice note/video outlining how you meet the Essential & Desirable Experience in the Person Specification, to by 9am on Wednesday 22 July with 'Wonder Baby Assistant Director & Facilitator application' noted within the subject line. Please note this role requires a local base in Bristol or the surrounding area. No relocation costs or accommodation is available. Interviews will take place on Tuesday 28 July at the Wellspring Settlement.
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