fast forward festival forum

Fast Forward Festival Forum 2025 is looking for seven students or graduates from the degree programmes theatre directing, dramaturgy / play writing or acting and three theatre professionals from the work fields theatre directing, education and theatre management / production, who are proposed by ETC Member Theatres. This year the forum will take place at Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Germany, from 13 – 16 November 2025.

Since 2024, the Fast Forward Festival Forum is part of the ETC’s NEXT GENERATION PROGRAMME together with the European Theatre Academy in Avignon and with the platform Transmission that is part of the Festival TNB at the National Theatre of Brittany in Rennes, France.

The core idea of the Fast Forward Festival Forum is to form a four-day working group of students, respectively young graduates and theatre professionals who map and discuss on eye level the current and future issues of the theatre sector. Furthermore, the group will watch the performances shown at Fast Forward festival and meet their artistic teams in order to discuss and learn more about the artistic, structural and cultural backgrounds in the different European countries. Every year Forum’s group shall be formed by and together with 10 ETC member theatres.

The National Theater of Brittany in Rennes, France, and the National Theater of Greece in Athens, which both include professional theater education under their roofs, will propose two of the ten possible participants.