CONNECT
Your Graduate Careers Hub
At Performers College, your journey with us doesn’t end when you graduate.
Join us on CONNECT, our digital careers and castings platform, designed to support you make the best start to your career in the performing arts.
What is CONNECT?
CONNECT is your dedicated careers hub where you can:
- Access stage and screen castings including West End theatre, international tours, cruise contracts, TV and film, and commercials
- Find the latest agent-representation opportunities
- Book one-to-one career-planning appointments with expert mentors
- Explore industry insights and resources to boost your career
- Sign up to events promoted by Creative Futures careers teams and industry employers, agents and casting directors
- Search for second job opportunities to financially support yourself as you build your performance career
- Stay connected with Creative Futures careers support after graduation
- Keep up to date with all the latest events and opportunities by creating your profile and setting your preferences, ensuring you only receive notification about your area of interest.
Sign In and Get Connected
Your account has already been set up, so you do not need to register. Follow the steps below to create your password and log in.
- Select the button below to open the login page.
- Select Reset or forgotten password and enter your personal email address.
- Open the email we send you and follow the link to create your password. If it doesn’t arrive within a few minutes, check your spam or junk folder.
- Return to the login page and sign in with your personal email address and new password.
Already set up? Log in with your personal email address and password.
Having trouble logging in, or not sure which email address we hold for you? Contact your Graduate Careers Manager at [email protected].
Graduate Careers Managers
Our dedicated Graduate Careers Manager will support you during your transition into the industry.
They can help with:
- Finding auditions and castings tailored to your strengths
- Applying to agents and securing representation
- Crafting your headshots, showreels and Spotlight profile
- Developing confidence and professional skills
- Creating a career plan to keep you moving forward
Meet Graduate Careers Manager for Performing Arts, Rob Ostlere
Rob trained as an actor at RADA after spending three years with the National Youth Theatre. His screen credits span HBO, Apple TV+, Sky, ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC, including a much-loved regular role in Holby City and the distinction of being the first character killed in Game of Thrones. On stage he has performed at venues including the National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and Sheffield Theatres.
Rob is also the author of The Actor’s Career Bible and the forthcoming The Actor’s Career Companion (both Bloomsbury): career guides for actors based on interviews with working performers and industry professionals.
As Graduate Careers Manager, Rob loves to share advice from across the industry with Performers College alumni, helping them to build sustainable and successful careers as performers.
You can contact Rob through CONNECT, via [email protected], DM on Instagram @futures_performers or LinkedIn.
Looking for an opportunity in Performing Arts?
Follow us @futures_performers for quick access to the latest castings, representation opportunities and other exciting resources.
Your dedicated LinkedIn group
Our LinkedIn group is a great space to stay connected with industry opportunities and your fellow graduates across all Performers College campuses. Join the LinkedIn group.
Monthly newsletter
Each month, catch up with the latest industry updates, exclusive interviews, the latest castings and inspiring news from fellow graduates, straight to your inbox via CONNECT.
Your Graduate Journey
Your experience doesn’t end when you graduate, and we’d love to hear how you’re getting on.
Around six months after you complete your studies, we’ll invite you to take part in our Creative Futures ‘Graduate Journey Survey’. Whether you’ve started a new job, continued your studies, launched your own business, or are still exploring your options, we want to hear about your journey.
Your feedback helps us to:
- Understand how our graduates are progressing.
- Identify where additional careers and employability support could make a difference.
- Develop new services and events to better support recent graduates.
- Improve the student experience for future cohorts.
The survey only takes a few minutes to complete, but the insights you share help us shape the support we offer to graduates during those important first months after university.
Looking ahead
Around 15 months after graduation, you’ll also receive the Graduate Outcomes Survey. This is the UK’s national survey of higher education graduates and is run independently by HESA (the Higher Education Statistics Agency). Your invitation will come directly from HESA, not from the University. When you receive your invitation from HESA by email, text message or phone, we’d really appreciate you taking part. Your experience matters, and your response can make a real difference.
By taking part in both surveys, you’ll help us understand the graduate journey from the months immediately after leaving university through to your longer-term career and personal development.
For more information, click here.
Any questions?
You can reach out to us here: [email protected] or follow/reach out to @futures_performers on Instagram.
