Incubate
verb
1.To maintain (eggs, organisms, or living tissue) at optimal environmental conditions for growth and development. 

Incubate14 is subsidised producer support programme delivered by Dep Arts Ltd in partnership with ARC in Stockton. Three artists/companies were selected in March 2014 to receive a year’s worth of subsidised support from Dep Arts and ARC.

Selected artists/companies for 2014/15 are:

• Middle Child – a company that challenges traditional theatre conventions and are passionate about making work for audiences that dance and drink, talk and text, and are loud and demanding.

• Ira Brand – Ira is an artist, performance-maker and writer, working across theatre and live art. Her work is humorous, evocative, intimate, often participatory and always accessible.

• Clerkinworks – the company from theatre-maker, actor and writer Angela Clerkin.