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A very warm welcome to Galway Theatre Festival’s Open Call for Festival 2025!
As we approach Festival 2025, Galway Theatre Festival remains committed to supporting innovative, high-quality work from inception to production, while continuing our efforts to build a sustainable and equitable arts infrastructure in Ireland.
Looking ahead, we take an expansive view of what a festival can be—encouraging experimentation, innovation, and outreach while staying true to the values of human connection, shared presence, and interaction. Our vision is for Galway to be a hub of emerging and innovative theatre that pushes boundaries, challenges both creators and audiences, and fosters an inclusive, multilingual, and culturally diverse environment. Galway Theatre Festival aims to create a space where artists and theatre makers can take risks, where audiences can discover challenges and surprises, and where new ideas can take root and grow.
In line with our goal of developing a sustainable arts infrastructure in the West of Ireland, it is crucial that we work alongside artists—sharing objectives and ambitions as we continue to create opportunities for artists in the region.
For Festival 2025, we will prioritize:
- Supporting high-quality, full-scale productions that demonstrate the ambition to form lasting partnerships, tour, and continue development at national and international levels.
- Supporting artists and works-in-development that are innovative, experimental, and relevant to contemporary issues, with a clear ambition to develop into high-quality productions. (We are committed to the developmental process, and works-in-progress should focus on qualitative development rather than final showings. Good art takes time, and we encourage artists to pursue appropriate development opportunities.)
- Supporting work that engages with the Irish language, Gaeltacht areas, rural communities in the West, Arts & Disability, Arts & Young People, Arts & Older People, and Arts & Minority Groups.
If you have an idea you would like to discuss with the GTF team before submitting, please contact Sarah Byrne (Artistic Director) at gtfsubmissions@gmail.com.
The deadline for applications is 10 pm on Monday, 11th November 2025.
