Current Opportunities

Marketing & Operations Coordinator

We are seeking a dynamic individual to join our team.

The Marketing & Operations Coordinator will support the smooth running, visibility, and sustainability of Forest Forge. Working closely with the Executive and Artistic Directors, the role delivers marketing and communications, manages admin, finance, and operations across our artistic programmes and development work.

This role is hybrid, requiring some weekly time at our Ringwood office, alongside home working and occasional work out on tour or in the community. Due to the marketing and operational responsibilities, the role is not fully remote, but we work flexibly wherever possible.

Salary: Up to £27,000 pro rata per annum

Contract: 20 hours per week

Term: Fixed term until May 2027, extension funding dependent

Deadline for applications: Monday 26th January 2026, 5pm

Interviews will be held in Ringwood on Tuesday 3rd February 2026. If you have any access requirements for interview please let us know in your application.

A full job pack pack and details of how to apply can be downloaded below:

‘Becoming Simone’ Creative Team Opportunities

Forest Forge are delighted to be supporting Becoming Simone, a brand-new three-hander comedy by writer Liz Garland, as part of our Creative Collaborations programme.

Becoming Simone follows Claire, a forty-something woman from Surrey who, despite her seemingly perfect life, feels disconnected from herself. On a whim, she leaves her marriage and comfortable home and travels to Hull, where she reinvents herself as Simone, a faux palm reader whose predictions prove uncannily accurate. Irreverent, heartfelt and comic, the play explores reinvention, identity and how we claim our lives back.

The production has undergone several development stages and is now entering a full rehearsal process across March and three-date pilot tour in April. The project is also supported by Mayflower Theatre, Wiltshire Creative, Stage Door Southampton and Hampshire Cultural Trust, and is funded by Arts Council England.

We have three opportunities available, so please see the individual callouts below.

Become a Trustee

We are always interested to hear from people with skills and experience that can support Forest Forge achieve its ambitions. Though we are not currently recruiting trustees, if you share our love of theatre, creating opportunities and our community, we would love to connect with you to begin forming relationships ahead of the next round of board expansion.

As a registered charity our board plays a key part in helping us to realise and deliver our strategic vision, supporting us to not only deliver work today but secure our future for the benefit of the people of the New Forest and surrounding region.

Please contact hello@forestforgetheatre.co.uk if you are interested in finding out more.