Venue
Rooms with the lights already hung.
Theatres, clubs, halls, galleries, festivals, backyards. Anywhere a show can actually happen.
Findable by
Capacity · stage size · rigging points · load-in · PA and lighting provided · accessibility
How it works
Find them. Keep them. Reach them when you’re ready.
No feed, no algorithm, no one deciding who you get to see. You search, you save, you make contact on your own terms.
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Search everything
Filter by capacity, rigging height, travel radius, gear owned, levels taught, who's signing. Anonymously, without an account.
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Save who's interesting
Favourites are private and one-way — nobody is notified. Your list shows who you've saved, who you've contacted, and who's replied.
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Reach out
Use their published number, or send a note through their own contact form. Accept, and a private thread opens. Nobody's email is ever exposed.
Who’s in here
Six kinds of people. All of them equal.
The room isn’t more important than the act, and the act isn’t more important than the person rigging the points. Everybody gets the same profile, found on their own terms.
Performer
Anyone who needs a stage to tell the truth.
Solo, duo, or a company of twenty. Music, circus, dance, theatre, variety, spoken word.
Findable by
Discipline · lineup · headcount · how far they travel · rigging needs · fee range
Creative
The show exists in their head before anyone else sees it.
Directors, choreographers, musical directors, writers, composers, and set · costume · lighting · sound designers.
Findable by
Discipline · credits · commission or flat fee · works remotely · union · style
Crew
Nothing happens until they say it's ready.
Sound, lights, rigging, stage management, load-in. The reason the show runs on time.
Findable by
Trade · certifications · gear owned · union status · call rate · how far they travel
Educator
The ones who hand the craft forward.
Coaches, teaching artists, workshop leaders, studios. In a room or over a screen.
Findable by
Subject · levels taught · in-person or remote · credentials · age groups · languages
Management
Whoever picks up the phone so the artist doesn't have to.
Agents, managers, bookers, production companies. Rosters of one or of two hundred.
Findable by
Disciplines represented · territories · roster size · what they're currently signing
Plenty of people are more than one of these — a venue owner who also plays bass, a designer who teaches. One account holds as many profiles as you need, and each one gets found on its own terms.
Why it’s different
Search by the things that actually decide a booking.
Everyone else lets you search a name and a city. That was never the hard part.
The hard part is whether the room can take your rig, whether they’ll travel that far, and whether they’re still active. Every one of those is a filter.
Aerial acts with 22 ft of rigging height who travel 300 miles
Rooms holding 180–260 with a PA and street-level load-in
FOH engineers who own a console and are free in March
Agencies currently signing circus acts in the Northwest
3,463Profiles listed
6Kinds of people, treated equally
8Filter categories, from craft to availability
$0To list, to search, to be found
Why this is free
Free for you. Funded by the bucket.
Spotlight doesn’t charge to list, doesn’t charge to search, and won’t rank anyone higher for money. No ads, and your details are never sold. It’s built and paid for out of pocket — so if it helps you find work or fill a room, there’s a bucket by the door.
Nothing is gatedSupporting changes nothing about your profile or where you appear.
It goes to running itServers, storage, and the domain. That's the whole list.
No ads, no data soldYou're not the product and you never will be.
Spotlight is a for-profit business. Payments here are voluntary support toward running the app — they are not tax-deductible charitable donations, and they don’t buy a product, a service, or any advantage on the site.
Straight answers
The questions everyone asks first.
Yes, and it stays free. No listing fee, no subscription, no paying to rank higher, nothing behind a wall. Support is voluntary and unlocks nothing at all — no badge, no boost, no tier.