Aitor is looking forward to returning to Celebration Barn Theater in Maine. He will be leading a series of online Garage of Broken Stupid Ideas sessions from March-May and then returning to teach two courses in person in June. Garage of Broken Stupid Ideas – 14 March – 9 May 2022 5 bi-weekly sessions. Bring your comedy ideas to Spymonkey’s... View Article
We’re excited to announce that we are now taking bookings for a week of Spymonkey clown in Northampton in March and our 3 week Clown Creation School in Worthing in May. Spymonkey Clown, Northampton 21st – 25th March 2022/ 10am – 4 pm / Cost £320 (inc of VAT) / 18 people / Royal & Derngate, Northampton Led by Toby... View Article
We are delighted to offer 3 Spymonkey courses in London and Brighton this September/ October. Spymonkey Clown: 6th-10th September, London Spymonkey Devising: 13th-17th September, London Spymonkey Music & Comedy: 25th-29th October, Brighton We will ensure that measures are in place to make the workshops COVID safe. We ask that you provide evidence of double vaccination or evidence of daily lateral... View Article
Spymonkey are looking for an Assistant Director to join their small team for research and development phase of our next production, Apocalypse Wow. If you are a director and would be interested in being part of our collaborative, devising process to kick-start the making of a new Spymonkey show please take a look at the details below and download the info document for more details... View Article
Over the last 12 months Spymonkey’s team have continued to support the creative and business development of theatre-makers. We might all be Zoomed out now but it’s been a privilege to have run 22 webinars, for 355 individuals and offered session fees for the whole programme on a sliding scale to ensure freelancers’ affordability. We gave 57 free places to... View Article
(Sketch performance) Friday 12th March, 6pm (UK) duration 45 mins Pay what you can Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/garage-of-broken-stupid-ideas-spit-n-polish-salon-sketch-performance-tickets-144015158215 In the depths of Lockdown 1.0 we started the Garage of Broken Stupid Ideas, which encouraged artists to come along and get their broken, stupid ideas up on the blocks, and let chief mechanics Aitor Basauri and Toby Park have a good old... View Article
Tuesday 16th March, 4.30pm (UK time) 90 mins. With Chris O’Connor Having attended one of Chris’ sessions ourselves recently, the Spymonkey team wanted to set up one of his brilliant webinars for others working in the arts. The session will give an overview of social media and look at specific tools you can use to best grow your following, increase your... View Article
Spymonkey are excited to offer more affordable workshops and webinars in the new year. As a result of the success of the recent webinar ‘Fearless, Funny and Female’, which shone a light on Spymonkey’s Petra Massey, we have decided to also shine the spotlight on Artistic Director Aitor Basauri and Associate Artists Stephan Kreiss and Lucy Bradridge. These will be... View Article