Federation of Scottish Theatre (FST) is proud to announce the recipients of their Spring/Summer 2025 Bursaries. FST received almost double the applications than in their previous round of submissions, highlighting the importance of FST Bursaries in allowing emerging artists to gain vital experience in the performing arts sector. Funding eight bursaries at the cost of […]
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The Scottish Society of Playwrights rates for the Commissioning of a Play
At their AGM in November 2024, Scottish Society of Playwrights (SSP) members voted to approve an increase in rates, effective from April 2025. This is the first formal uplift in writers’ fees implemented by SSP in 5 years and increases are being applied across all of their agreements. The rates that will be of interest […]
Resignation of FST Chief Executive, Fiona Sturgeon Shea
The Board of FST would like to inform members and other stakeholders that Fiona Sturgeon Shea has tendered her resignation as Chief Executive and will leave the organisation in May. We want to express our deepest gratitude to Fiona for her dedicated leadership during a time of considerable uncertainty and change for both the organisation […]
FST statement on Multi-Year Funding
Federation of Scottish Theatre (FST) is aware that a significant number of arts organisations in Scotland, including many of our members, have today received the long-awaited outcome of their Multi-Year Funding applications from Creative Scotland. From the communications provided by Creative Scotland, we have some knowledge about those that have received positive news of their […]
Producers’ Persona – a new Producer Database
Producers’ Persona is a new database of producers for producers. An exclusive network unavailable to the public or other sectors of the industry, Producers’ Persona is a searchable database for producer business-to-business connections. Open to producers across the globe, Producers’ Persona’s tools let users refine searches and save results so they can connect globally or […]
Letter to Creative Scotland on Multi-Year Funding Programme from Scotland’s sector bodies
Following Creative Scotland’s recent communication regarding the delay in announcing the application results for the Multi-Year Funding Programme (2025–28), Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) – along with Artlink, Craft Scotland, Culture & Business Scotland, Culture Counts, Federation of Scottish Theatre (FST), Publishing Scotland, Scottish Book Trust, Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN) and Traditional Arts and […]
Culture Counts appoints new Interim Director
Culture Counts – the leading network of arts, heritage and creative industries organisations in Scotland – is pleased to announce the appointment of new Interim Director, Kathryn Welch. Kathryn joins Culture Counts with a breadth of experience, having most recently held the position of Programme Lead for Creative Scotland’s Culture Collective – nurturing a network […]
Multi-Year Funding decision delay
Following Creative Scotland’s announcement earlier this morning about the delay to the Multi-Year Funding announcements, with our colleagues at SCAN, FST have written initially to the Senior Leadership Team and Chair of Creative Scotland expressing concerns and making some practical requests on behalf of members. We will keep you updated as regularly as we can […]
CEAAC Committee pre-budget scrutiny 2025-26
The Scottish Parliament’s Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee has published a call for views ahead of its pre-budget scrutiny for 2025-26. This is available through the following link: This year the Committee are seeking views on: The call for views closes on Friday 9 August 2024. As usual, FST will make a response on […]
Important news about the future of the Federation of Scottish Theatre (FST)
Important news about the future of the Federation of Scottish Theatre (FST)
Speakers announced for the Past, Present and Possible Futures
Speakers announced for Past, Present and Possible Futures – symposium for the performing arts in Scotland on 2 November in Dundee.
FST’s email to our Members sent on 2 October 2023:
On 2 October 2023, FST wrote to its members with an update on the funding crisis, informing them about the actions undertaken by FST and advising how they can get involved.