Pitch Up is an in-person event which provides a platform for venues and artists to pitch ideas, providing space for new partnerships to emerge. By having both venues and theatre-makers pitch what they have to offer and what they're looking for, we aim to foster a more collaborative and open approach than traditional pitching events.

We host Pitch Up events each year in venues across the South East, inviting an open audience made up of theatre makers, arts professionals and other local venues eager to connect and listen to the pitches of the day. Please keep an eye on our house newsletter and LinkedIn for when bookings open to join us in the audience for Pitch Up: Sussex.

Pitch Up: Sussex

Date: Tuesday 20th May 2025, 11.00am to 3.45pm
Location: Brighton Fringe, Little Puck, The Circus Yard, Union Road, Brighton

This May house will be hosted by Brighton Fringe to bring you Pitch Up: Sussex.

Pitch Up brings together 10 artists and companies and 10 venue representatives to share their opportunities, to connect and collaborate in front of an audience. Run by house southeast theatre network, Pitch Up provides a platform for venues and artists to pitch ideas and opportunities and create space for new partnerships to emerge.

By bringing venues and theatre-makers together for the day to talk about what they have to offer, and what they're looking for, house aims to foster a more collaborative, open approach to traditional pitching events.

Pitch Up events also invite an open audience of theatre makers and other local venues eager to connect and listen to the pitches of the day.

Who can pitch?

• Theatre-makers creating or wanting to create work for and/or with audiences in the South East of England
• Cultural organisations wanting to connect with venues & artists
• Organisations supporting under-represented groups or disability projects within the arts
• Arts venues, performance spaces, theatres, or Creative People and Places (CPP) programmes that are based in the South East of England (Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex) who have opportunities to they want to engage with artists about.

Artists - how to apply

We are now looking for theatre artists interested in working in the South of England who want to make connections with local venues.

Please complete our Artist Pitch Up application, telling us a little more about yourself and your work by 12pm Tuesday 22nd April 2025.

• We’ve written the application so that it shouldn’t take you more than 30 minutes to complete.
• You can also choose to submit your application as a video or audio file attached to the application form, instead of providing a written response.

If you are a freelancer and there's a cost barrier to you attending Pitch Up, house are able to offer a contribution towards your usual day rate.

Interested but want to know more before applying? Want to apply or attend, but there’s a barrier to you doing so? Drop us an email on info@housetheatre.org.uk

Previous Pitch-Ups:

Pitch Up: Canterbury
Helping theatre-makers and venues start conversations

Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury 08 October 2024

house was joined by ten artists and companies alongside house venues BEAM Hertford, Ropetackle Arts Centre, The Alex, Gulbenkian Arts Centre, ARK Cliftonville, EM Forster Theatre, The Hawth, The Marlowe Theatre and Applause Rural Touring, Brighton Fringe and Looping the Loop.