A completely free and interactive experience with industry guest speakers, including Sam Baker Jones (Peaker Blinders, Noughts and Crosses), Darragh Hand (Heartstopper, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, Olivier Nomination: For Black Boys) and Segun Fawole (Eastenders, Sandman).
At Collective, we offer rigorous, industry-facing training within an inclusive, ensemble-led environment. We are proud to champion actors from underrepresented backgrounds, with around 60% of our cohort from the global majority, alongside a commitment to integrating actors with more complex disabilities into our training.
Drama School for a Day is designed to give prospective students a genuine insight into life at a drama school. We'll show how we work at Collective - our approach, our teaching, and the kind of artist we support them to become.
The Day Includes:
Rodeo Productions is an independent production company specialising in the development, management and producing of large-scale theatre and live entertainment across the UK and internationally. Founded by Rebecca Quigley and Aidan Grounds, the company works with leading writers, composers and creatives to deliver ambitious productions across a wide range of genres and markets.
Current and recent productions include & Juliet, Operation Mincemeat, Every Brilliant Thing and Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular, alongside executive producing and consultancy work for major entertainment companies and creative institutions.
This General Management & Producer Trainee Placement offers an exciting opportunity for an emerging producer to gain hands-on experience across both commercial producing and general management within a fast-paced production company. The successful candidate will support production coordination, administration, scheduling, company management and project delivery across a variety of live entertainment and theatre projects.
This role would suit someone passionate about commercial theatre, large-scale productions and live entertainment who is eager to develop practical producing and management skills within an internationally connected producing environment.
Sonia Friedman Productions is one of the world’s leading theatre production companies, producing award-winning work across the West End, Broadway and internationally. Since its founding in 2002, the company has developed and produced more than 300 productions worldwide, working with internationally renowned writers, directors, performers and creative teams.
The company’s productions span plays, musicals and new writing, ranging from large-scale commercial productions to artist-led work, with a reputation for producing ambitious, high-quality theatre that reaches audiences across the globe.
This Trainee Producer Placement offers an exciting opportunity for an emerging producer to gain hands-on experience within a major commercial producing office. The successful candidate will support productions and projects across a range of activity, assisting with administration, project coordination, artist liaison and production support while learning about the development and delivery of large-scale theatre productions.
This role is ideal for someone passionate about commercial theatre, producing and live entertainment who is eager to build a career within an internationally recognised producing company.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre is one of Scotland’s leading producing theatres, creating ambitious work in the heart of the Highlands and connecting local, national and international audiences through theatre and cultural activity. Known for its unique setting and producing model, the organisation creates theatre experiences both onstage and beyond the building, with a strong commitment to community engagement, artist development and collaboration.
The theatre’s work is guided by values of creativity, respect, empowerment and collaboration, with a mission to create life-changing experiences for audiences and communities through theatre and the arts.
This Trainee Producer Placement offers an exciting opportunity for an emerging producer to gain hands-on experience within a busy producing theatre environment. The successful candidate will work closely with the Producing and Artistic teams, supporting productions, artist liaison, project coordination and administration across a varied programme of work.
This role would suit someone passionate about producing theatre, collaboration and regional arts practice, who is eager to develop practical producing skills within a large-scale producing organisation.
Sheffield Theatres is one of the UK’s leading regional theatre organisations and home to four distinctive venues: the Crucible, Lyceum, Playhouse and Montgomery. The organisation produces and presents a wide range of work including new plays, musicals, touring productions, family theatre and community engagement activity, welcoming audiences from Sheffield and across the UK.
Known nationally for artistic excellence and bold storytelling, Sheffield Theatres champions both major productions and local voices, creating work that connects deeply with audiences and communities. Alongside its producing work, the organisation delivers extensive participation programmes, workshops and artist development opportunities throughout the region.
This Trainee Producer Placement offers an exciting opportunity for an emerging producer to gain practical experience within a large-scale producing theatre. The successful candidate will support productions and projects across the organisation, working closely with the producing and programming teams on administration, artist liaison, scheduling and project coordination.
This role would suit someone passionate about regional theatre, producing new work and developing a career within a collaborative and ambitious producing environment.
The Mercury Theatre Colchester is offering a paid Trainee Producer Placement for an emerging producer interested in developing work within a leading regional producing theatre. The Mercury is one of East England’s most dynamic producing houses, creating and touring theatre locally and nationally while championing artist development, participation and new voices.
The placement provides the opportunity to work across producing, programming and artist development within a busy producing theatre environment. The successful candidate will support productions, events, creative engagement projects and new work development, while learning how large-scale regional theatre operates both artistically and strategically.
The Mercury is particularly interested in people who are passionate about creating accessible, inclusive theatre and who are excited by collaboration, community engagement and artist support. This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking to build a career in producing within the subsidised theatre sector.
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Francesca Moody Productions is seeking a Trainee Producer to join its award-winning team for a 12-month paid placement in London. FMP creates bold original theatre, television, film and audio, developing work from fringe beginnings through to international success. Their productions include global hits such as Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, alongside acclaimed new work across the West End, Edinburgh Fringe and beyond.
This placement offers an exciting opportunity to work closely with the producing and general management teams across a wide range of projects, supporting the day-to-day running of productions, development activity and company administration. The successful candidate will gain hands-on experience in commercial producing, artist liaison, scheduling, budgeting and festival producing, including work connected to Edinburgh Fringe projects and Shedinburgh.
FMP are looking for someone who is highly organised, collaborative, proactive and passionate about contemporary theatre and live entertainment. This role would suit an emerging producer eager to learn within a fast-paced, ambitious and artist-led environment.
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Hull Truck Theatre is a pioneering theatre with a bold Northern voice, known for producing and presenting inspiring, high-quality drama. From in-house productions to visiting performances, touring work and community projects, the theatre plays a vital role in Hull’s cultural life.
Based at Hull Truck Theatre, you’ll be joining a collaborative production team working closely with artists, visiting companies and creative professionals to bring live performances to life. This is a fantastic opportunity to start a career in technical theatre, gaining hands-on experience across lighting, sound, stage and production in a real working environment.
What you'll do:
This is an 18-month apprenticeship, working up to 30 hours per week (including training time). You'll gain practical experience while working towards a recognised qualification, developing skills in areas such as:
Pay Rate: Apprenticeship Minimum Wage
Drama and Creative Writing work together to craft powerful stories, invent new forms of expression, and engage audiences and readers in fresh ways of thinking. Whether on the page, stage or screen, these disciplines help us explore what it means to be human.
The Drama and Creative Writing degree at UEA gives you the chance to study in two outstanding departments, including the longest-established and most prestigious Creative Writing department in the UK. You’ll be taught by experienced artists, writers, and researchers who will support you in developing both your creative voice and your performance skills. By combining your passions for text and performance, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how they inform and inspire one another.
You’ll explore both disciplines, studying acting, innovative playwrights, writing, and theatre practices from around the world. You’ll learn the art of writing, including for stage and screen, the craft of theatre-making, and how critical thinking leads to rigorous and powerful work. You’ll have the opportunity to study all kinds of creative writing, with a particular focus on writing for theatre, cinema, television, and radio. Alongside this, you'll be exploring the contemporary practice, criticism, and history of dramatic writing and performance. Your writing will be enriched by an awareness of theatrical and literary traditions from around the globe.
You’ll work in their professional Drama Studio, benefiting from their highly regarded student-run Minotaur Theatre Company and gaining even more performance, technical, and scriptwriting experience. Studying in Norwich means you’ll have access to a rich arts scene, including Norwich Theatre, Norwich Arts Centre, UEA Live, and the National Centre for Writing.
Your degree could take you into a career in the creative industries, as a writer or working in theatre, film, and radio. Or you might choose to take your collaborative, creative and critical skills into a host of other professions or into business.
This Masters gives you a practical and theoretical engagement with the many forms of writing and production for theatre. Blending practice, theory and history, the programme is designed for those wishing to develop playwriting skills and knowledge of script development and support, opening the way to many theatre roles, including dramaturgy. You will learn about the changing roles of the playwright and dramaturge in contemporary theatre in the UK and elsewhere around the world, and be supported to define your own creative practice while developing valuable transferable skills in research, project management and critical reflection.
WHY THIS PROGRAMME
