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GUTS: casting call for child performers

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CASTING CALL: CHILD PERFORMER (Scotland)

Professional Circus Production: Guts by SUPERFAN

We are seeking a child performer to join an upcoming professional circus production in Scotland. 

Guts is a new circus show by SUPERFAN and will be performed by a professional adult circus performer and a child. It will involve a child performer being part of the devising process, learning choreography, and performing partner acrobatics with the adult circus performer. This brand new small-scale intergenerational circus work is about fragility, care, and risk. It’s a continuation of our practice of making contemporary circus and dance-theatre shows performed by both adults and children, and is rooted in our preoccupation with themes of risk, fear, and death, how our relationship to these changes as we age, and the politics of these themes in relation to the socially constructed identities of children and adults.

Audition workshops will take place in March. The next stage of development will take place in Autumn 2026, with full production in 2027/28. Auditions will take place in Glasgow and the show will be created in Scotland. 

Who we’re looking for:

  • Children aged 7-10
  • Strong performance ability and confidence on stage
  • Some experience in either circus skills, dance, gymnastics, physical theatre, martial arts or movement is essential

Audition details:

  • Audition Workshops on 28th & 29th March 2026
  • Location: Glasgow 
  • We will cover the cost of travel and refreshments on the day
  • If a role is then offered this is a paid professional opportunity

To apply:

Applications must be submitted by the child’s parent or legal guardian.

To apply please email applications@superfanperformance.co.uk with the subject line Guts Child Performer Application 

Please include the following info:

  • Child’s name
  • Age and current school year
  • Brief description of performance experience/training and interest
  • Any past performance experience if they have any (this is not essential)
  • Parent/guardian name and contact details
  • Where the child is based and how you would travel to an audition in Glasgow 

If you have any questions and want to chat through this project with the lead artists please get in touch via: contact@superfanperformance.co.uk

Deadline: 15th February 2026

About SUPERFAN

SUPERFAN are an award-winning Scottish company who create performances for adult and young audiences that take a playful approach to exploring the world. The company is a collaboration between three co-artistic directors Ellie Dubois, Kim Donohoe and Pete Lannon, and our work uses artforms that include contemporary circus, dance-theatre, autobiographical performance and physical theatre. 

We were 2021 Company-in-residence at the National Theatre of Scotland, and in 2019 we won the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award to create Nosedive, our intergenerational contemporary circus piece.

SUPERFAN are supported by Creative Scotland as part of the multi-year funding portfolio.

On a white infinity wall stage, a boy is upside down in mid-air in front of a man who is flipping him around. The man's head is hidden by the boy's body. They are wearing matching blue shorts and tank tops.