NSDF is open to anyone aged 16 and above with an interest in the creative arts. We will give you the experience and knowledge you need to make ambitious, imaginative theatre

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  • Productions

    We present outstanding productions made by young theatre makers. Find out more about this year’s 11 shows, picked from across the country by our team of selectors, presented at NSDF13, 23-29 March in Scarborough.

  • Festival Company

    We invite outstanding individuals who we have seen and met during the selection process to be a member of the Festival Company. This year the Company had specific workshops by associates from the RSC and others and could book their own choice of workshops during the rest of the week.

  • Workshops

    We programme a wide choice including Voice, Text and Scene Study, Movement, Singing, Dance, Devising, Audition Coaching, Writing for Theatre and Television, Directing and a whole range of Technical workshops.  In 2013 there were 182 workshops delivered by industry professionals including associates from organisations such as RSC, Lyric Hammersmith, Young Vic, Sheffield Theatres, Paines Plough, [...]

  • Technical Team

    The NSDF Technical Director and a team of 10 professionals lead a team of 60 who support the productions, staff venues and build some festival venues from the ground up. The team have workshops on Sound, Lighting, Rigging, Carpentry, Operation of Specialist Equipment and Pyrotechnics and much more besides. The team are appointed to various [...]

  • Management Team

    The Management Team has workshops on Producing, Financial Management, Venue Management, Administration and Logistics. Members of the team are appointed to a variety of positions to run the festival Venues, Workshops and Front of House/Box Office and produce specific events during the festival.

  • Noises Off

    Write, review and stir things up in the festival magazine.

Noises Off

Read all about the fantastic 2013 festival

More news and reviews from Noises Off online

  • Noises Off 2013 Saturday 23rd March

    March 24, 2013

    Noises Off is out!

  • Noises Off 2013 Sunday 24th March

    March 25, 2013

    Hot off the presses – here it is.

  • Noises Off Monday 25th March

    March 26, 2013

    What do you think of it so far?

  • Noises Off Tuesday 26th March

    March 26, 2013

    Packed with up to the minute festival news.

  • Noises Off Wednesday 27th March

    March 27, 2013

    It’s snowing in Scarborough.

  • Noises Off Thursday 28th March

    March 28, 2013

    And so, the end is near…

  • Noises Off Friday 29th March

    March 29, 2013

    The final curtain.

  • Justin Audibert

    May 20, 2013

                        Justin is a freelance theatre director and Artistic Associate of HighTide. Recent directing credits include WRONG’ UN by Boff Whalley (Red Ladder), GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES by Rajiv Joseph (Gate Theatre), THE TEMPEST (RSC Shakespeare in a Suitcase), FRONT by Vickie Donoghue (Rada Festival), FUTURE REGRETS [...]

  • Theatre company seeks Creative Producer

    May 15, 2013

        Bread & Goose are a small theatre company with an interest in telling stories that matter, from unusual and engaging perspectives. We work most often in outdoor locations, and enjoy taking the audiences on journeys, in which they also have to play their part in the story. The company is run by Alison [...]

  • International Student Playscript Competition Winner 2013

    April 29, 2013

                  We are delighted to announce the winner is The Boat House by Eva Adderley. Eva studies Studio Arts and Theater at the University of Iowa. Her stories have appeared in various journals, and her plays have been performed in Iowa, New York, and Australia. She was a finalist [...]