Editorial Fellowship
Critical Writing
Production Support
CMS Workflows
Audience Development
Sydney Dramaturgical Company offers a structured Editorial Fellowship for early-career practitioners working at the intersection of arts criticism, theatre publishing, and the editorial systems that connect the two.
Editorial Publishing & CMS Workflows
Fellows learn structured publishing using the company's editorial templates. The training covers the full pipeline from draft to publication, with outputs that have a clear path to going live on company channels.
What you'll work with
- Webflow CMS Collections — production archive entries, review posts, and collaborator profiles, following our documented field schema.
- Substack workflows — long-form criticism, editorial calendars, and subscriber communications.
- Review-field schema — the standardised structure we use to make criticism scalable and consistent across publications.
Arts Marketing & Audience Development
Fellows learn the marketing rhythm of an independent producing company: how a season is planned, sold, and reported on without a large marketing budget.
Areas covered
- Press release drafting and media outreach.
- Programme materials, including printed and digital assets.
- Festival platform listings, e.g. Eventotron and Sydney Fringe systems.
- Ticketing settlement and post-season reporting.
- Audience-development decisions behind a season's programming.
Theatre Production Support
Fellows observe and contribute to live production work, taught against documented templates from the company's 2025 season.
What this involves
- Rehearsal documentation — call sheets, run notes, and rehearsal photography systems.
- Programme assembly — credits, biographies, sponsor and partner acknowledgement.
- Image and consent release systems — performer agreements, image use, and archival permissions.
- Festival compliance — platform requirements, insurance, and venue documentation.
- Post-season financial settlement — profit-share distribution, expense reconciliation, and reporting.
Critical Writing & Dramaturgy Research
Fellows write under editorial supervision, on subjects drawn from the company's existing writing remit: independent productions, festival programming, and publications already in our review pipeline.
How writing is developed
- Brief — written brief at the start of each piece, with subject, angle, and word count.
- Draft — Fellow writes the first draft against the brief.
- Redline — supervisor returns the draft with structural and line-level notes.
- Revision — Fellow revises across multiple passes until publication-ready.
Published pieces appear on the company's Writing page or in partner publications.
Grant Writing & Arts Administration
Fellows are introduced to the administrative scaffolding of an Australian arts organisation: the unglamorous infrastructure that determines whether artistic work can be made at all.
What you'll learn
- Common application structures — project narrative, budget, statistical data, and support material.
- Partner outreach — sourcing, drafting prompts, and stakeholder management.
- ABN, insurance, and compliance — the registration and reporting requirements for a producing entity.
- Festival platform settlement — reconciliation against Eventotron and similar systems.
- Budgeting and acquittal cycles — the basic income/expense/in-kind framework used in grant applications.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the Fellowship, the Fellow will have:
- Produced at least one piece of published writing under editorial supervision, on the company's Writing page or in a partner publication.
- Contributed to one or more live production or season-planning workflows, with their contribution documented.
- Built fluency in the company's Webflow CMS structure for productions, reviews, and collaborators.
- Worked through at least one administrative cycle: a grant draft, a festival platform settlement, or a press kit assembly.
- Compiled a short portfolio of work that can be cited externally.
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sydney Dramaturgical is a new theatre company that produces, critiques, and markets performance works. ITs mission is to create the conditions for moments of civic and discursive contact.
