For Backstage Theatre Professionals

Your skills are real. Your record should be too.

BBMGOS is building South Africa's first verified database for backstage theatre professionals. Right now, that means keeping a real record of who you are, recommending you for work directly, and telling you about opportunities as they come in.

Apply to join
Where we are right now

The public platform is still being built. The work is already happening.

BBMGOS has not yet published a searchable public database. What we do right now is real: we keep a verified record of who you are and what you do, we recommend you directly when productions come to us looking for crew, and we tell you about opportunities as they arise.

Joining today means being on record and being actively considered for work now, while the public platform is built around the people already in it.

Who can join

Anyone whose work makes a theatre production possible from behind the curtain.

If your work is part of how a production comes together and the audience never sees your name, there is a place in this database for you.

Creative & Writing
  • Playwrights
  • Directors
  • Producers
  • Choreographers
  • Composers & Musical Directors
Technical
  • Stage Managers
  • Lighting Designers & Operators
  • Sound Designers & Operators
  • Riggers & Fly Operators
  • Technical Directors
Design & Production
  • Set Designers, Builders & Scenic Artists
  • Costume Designers & Makers
  • Props Coordinators & Makers
  • Production Managers
  • Intimacy & Dialect Coaches

Not seeing your exact role? If it makes a theatre production possible, it belongs here. Tell us what you do when you join.

What joining means

A professional profile, built with you, not for you.

01

You tell us who you are

Your role, your experience, the productions you have worked on, and how you came to the work. Formal training or self-taught, both count equally.

02

We verify what we can

A production credit or a reference who can confirm your work. This is what makes the database trustworthy to the productions that will eventually search it.

03

Your profile is built

A professional record with your skills, your credits, and your availability, ready for the moment the database becomes searchable by productions.

04

It grows with every credit

Every production you complete through the Guild, including BBMGOS's own productions, adds a verified credit to your record permanently.

A preview

What your profile will look like once the database is live.

This is illustrative. It shows the shape of what we are building, not a finished product.

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Sample Member
Stage Manager · Johannesburg
Stage Management Available for Booking
Verified Credits
Misplaced Shoes — National Arts Festival, 2024
Matsoho Rise — Fountain Hotel, Cape Town, 2025
Years of Experience
5+ years
Before you apply

What membership means, and what it does not.

We want this to be clear before you fill in the form below. No surprises later.

What it is
  • + A professional record of your skills, training, and credits
  • + Direct recommendations when productions come to us looking for your skills
  • + Verified credits that grow every time you work through the Guild
  • + Early visibility once the database becomes searchable by productions
  • + A say in the rate research and advocacy work the Guild is building
What it is not
  • A guarantee of paid work or a specific booking
  • An employment relationship with BBMGOS
  • Access to a finished, live, searchable platform today
  • A union or collective bargaining body
  • Limited to theatre alone if you also work in events or film. We focus on theatre, but your record is yours

Full detail on what it means to be a member lives in the Member Agreement, available whenever you want to read further.

Apply now

Get on record.

Fill in the form below. We review applications personally and will be in touch as the database opens for onboarding.

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