British Council Launches Entrepreneur Award for Young Theatre Professionsals

Are you passionate about performing arts, an innovator looking for entrepreneurial ways to move the UK performing arts industry forward? Are you looking to broaden your international business opportunities and to build your network? Want to know more about the business of performing arts in India? If this sounds like you then you could be the winner of this prestigious new award from the British Council.

To be eligible for the award, you must be aged between 25 and 35, have at least three years of industry experience and be resident in the UK.

You can fill in the online application form and download the guidance notes here.

Applications close at 14:00 (2 p.m.) on Monday 2 March 2009.

This is the inaugural UK Young Performing Arts Entrepreneur (UKYPAE) award. It is the sixth UK award for young creative entrepreneurs as part of the British Council's Young Creative Entrepreneur programme which began in 2004.

There are now nine international awards, for young creative entrepreneurs in the communications, screen, fashion, interactive, music, performing arts, publishing, screen and visual arts sectors. The breadth of these awards ensures that all of the creative industries are covered by this programme.

UKYPAE is one of nine awards for young creative entrepreneurs that are being developed by the British Council with support from NESTA, the Cultural Leadership Programme, trade associations and professional bodies within the creative sector.