CASTING CALL - Winter's Fleet

We are looking for three actors to be part of an ensemble cast for a new outdoor site specific show being created in North Shields. 

Image Credit: Saya Naruse

We are looking for a mix of performers including:

1 female actor (18 plus) who can play a 9 year old girl and can sing 

2 other performers (any gender) who are strong movers and happy to lead some scenes with community cast

Requirements: 

  • Based in (or originally from) North Tyneside

  • Confident picking up movement / choreography 

  • Encouraging and supportive to community cast members 

(facilitation experience a bonus)

  • Can be a lead performer in a larger ensemble

  • Some experience in outdoor / site specific work 

  • Devising experience 

Dates: 

You need to be available for all the following dates: 

Casting workshop - 2nd December 2026

Rehearsals in North Shields - 8th - 19th March 2027 (This will include some evenings/Saturday to rehearse with community cast) 

Performances - 20th / 21st March 2027

Rates of pay:

£700 per week for two weeks rehearsals 

£200 per day for performance days 

Please note there are no relocation or travel costs included so please do not apply if you live outside the north east (unless you have a base here). 

How to apply:

Please send the following to wintersfleet@gmail.com by midnight Friday 20th November 

  • Your CV / spotlight profile link

  • Recent headshot (or a recent photo) 

  • Your postcode - if you live outside North Tyneside please let us know your connection to North Shields / North Tyneside (this is an opportunity for North Tyneside actors) 

  • A few paragraphs or a short video introducing yourself and telling us a bit about your relevant experience (2 mins max) 

About Winter’s Fleet

Have you heard of the myth of North Shields?

We’ll let you in on the secret…

North Shields has always been a meeting point, of land and sea, near and far, where the salt in the water meets salt of the earth. 

Every winter, mysterious creatures come ashore. They hide in alleyways, behind buildings, inside walls and forgotten corners of the town… Only the believers get glimpses of them, Others aren’t sure they’re real at all.

Until... the Spring Equinox. 

When day is as long as night, when the Spring Tide leaps forth from the Black Middens, reaching towards the Highlights, and calling the creatures home, they begin their migration, back to the bottom of the ocean.

Winter’s Fleet is a creative project inviting schools, families, and local community groups to help create a new mythology for North Shields, capturing the spirit, humour and uniqueness of the town, culminating in a large-scale public performance in Northumberland Square, on the weekend of the Spring Equinox (20-21 March 2027). 

Creative Team

Director - Amy Golding 

Associate Director - Jonluke McKie 

Designer - Imogen Cloet 

Composer and Sound Designer - Roma Yagnik 

Video Projection and Lighting Design - Si Cole 

Producer - Britta Koerber 

Community Engagement Lead - Liv Hunt 



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