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My First Freelance Year (and a half).|

1. Setting up as self employed .

Registering as self employed: https://www.gov.uk/working-for-yourself

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Writing an invoice: 

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Filling out a tax return: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G16qqjgfYEU

2. The projects and how I got to be a part of them .

Concerto

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Reckless Sleepers (The Last Supper, Negative Space, Schrödinger)

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In Between Time Festival 

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Flare Festival 

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Living Pictures (Diary of a Madman) 

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Workshops: Contact Young Company, Play in a Day, Sync. One2 Festival 

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3. Things I've learnt... .

NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING - EVERYONE IS JUST PRETENDING

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Social Media:

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  - Twitter can be a useful tool - set up a professional profile and just follow         theatre stuff, it becomes a feed fun of useful opportunities.

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  - Make all social media profiles be coherent (same profile pic, same name etc.)

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  - Don't bother with Linkedin 

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 -  About Building small blocks that won't seem immediately successful or relevant but will help you years down the line...

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Website: 

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  - Use google analytics 

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  - What is the intention for your website? 

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  - Look at what other peoples websites are like: Reckless, Rachael Clerke 

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  - Website is a plant that you must water regularly - it may take years to fruit but it can only fruit with water, time and love. 

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About being freelance:

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  - Almost impossible to go out straight away and just make a living solely on making and touring your own contemporary theatre... and why would you want to? So many diverse roles: Producing, Teching, Teaching, Marketing, 

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  - Theatre is also a visual art form therefore everything I do connected to my theatre work is visually engaging and cohesive. If you look the part people will believe you. 

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  - Applications - you will fill out a lot of applications - get to the root of the answer, nice and concise, sound interesting, sell your passion

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  - No matter what you do get used to calling yourself a theatre maker

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  - You can have a part-time job AND be a freelance theatre-maker 

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  - Surround yourself with a good team - my family, my brother, Mole, Kate Perridge, Neil

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  - Go see as much as you can!!

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  - Most difficult part of being freelance is motivating yourself

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  - Best part of being freelance is I get to go to incredible places and i'm actively doing what love and what I'm passionate about 

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And I can say I've done this: 

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