Work with an established playwright over 8 weeks to explore the fundamentals of writing a play.

Key information:

• Dates: 27 January - 17 March 2027
• Time: Wednesdays, 7pm - 9:30pm
• Location: In person, Swiss Cottage Campus
• Experience level: No experience needed
• Class size: 16
• Course fee: £395

What will this course help you achieve?

• Turn your ideas into the foundations of a play with guidance from an established playwright
• Develop compelling characters, a structure plot, dramatic action and dialogue that engage an audience
• Discover and strengthen your unique voice as a writer
• Learn how playwrights develop, redraft and refine their work through feedback and reflection
• Gain insight into how new writing reaches theatre companies, producers and publishers
• Experience the excitement of hearing your work brought to life by actors

What will you leave with?

• Confidence in your ability to generate, develop and shape ideas for the stage
• Ideas for a play, a developed character breakdown and a completed first scene
• First-hand experience of seeing your writing performed and understanding how it works in practice
• A clearer sense of your next creative step, whether that’s completing your play or progressing to Playwriting: Intermediate 

For more information and to book your place, click the Opportunity Info link below!

This 8-week course takes a multidisciplinary approach to the creation of solo performance for actors, writers, and artists who want to experiment with this eclectic form.

Key information:

• Dates: 27 January - 20 March 2027
• Time: Wednesdays, 7pm - 9:30pm
• Location: In person, Swiss Cottage Campus
• Experience level: Actors, writers, and performers with some experience
• Class size: 14
• Course fee: £450

What will this course help you achieve?

• Create and develop original solo performance work using techniques drawn from contemporary performance, live art, alt-cabaret, experimental comedy, and physical & postdramatic theatre lineages
• Turn lived experience and autobiographical material into compelling performance
• Experiment with persona, audience relationship, performance text, and the expressive potential of the body
• Develop a distinctive comic and performance voice through the exploration of levity and gravity
• Build confidence in creating, testing, and refining work through practical exercises, assignments, and feedback 
• Create and share work-in-progress extracts of a solo performance for an invited audience

What will you leave with?

• A toolkit of creative techniques for generating and shaping solo performance work
• Work-in-progress extracts of your own solo piece, developed over the course
• The experience of sharing your work with an invited audience

For more information and to book your place, click the Opportunity Info link below!

Build your screen acting skills by performing scenes from film, television and commercial genres on this 8 week evening course.

Key information:

• Dates: 25 January - 17 March 2027
• Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 7pm - 9:30pm
• Location: In person, Swiss Cottage Campus
• Experience level: Introductory acting experience required
• Class size: 16
• Course fee: £625

What will this course help you achieve?

• Create believable performances by working on monologues and duologues from film, television, and commercial genres
• Explore acting techniques that strengthen your imagination, authenticity, and ability to connect with an audience on screen
• Learn how to adapt your performance to different camera setups and filming environments
• Gain insight into the casting and audition process for film, television, and commercials
• Experience what screen acting is like using rehearsal and camera-based exercises

What will you leave with?

• Confidence performing on camera and bringing characters to life on screen
• Practical screen acting techniques you can continue developing beyond the course
• Experience working with monologues, duologues and scenes across a range of screen genres
• First-hand understanding of how acting for camera differs from stage performance 
• Insight into the realities of casting, auditions and the screen industry

For more information and to book your place, click the Opportunity Info link below!

Advance your acting skills through contemporary scene work and character exploration twice a week over 8 weeks.

Key information:

• Dates: 25 January - 17 March 2027
• Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 7pm - 9:30pm
• Location: In person, Swiss Cottage Campus
• Experience level: Introductory acting experience required or completed our “Acting: An Introduction” short course
• Class size: 16
• Course fee: £595

What will this course help you achieve?

• Train with techniques drawn from a range of practices including Stanislavski, Demidov and Viewpoints
• Develop the skills, habits and disciplines professional actors use to prepare, rehearse and perform
• Explore how text, casting and performance choices shape the stories we tell and reflect the world around us 
• Contribute to an ensemble and collaborate creatively with other performers

What will you leave with?

• Experience applying a range of acting approaches to contemporary texts and characters
• Enhanced rehearsal, ensemble and collaboration skills developed through practical performance work
• First-hand experience of conservatoire-style actor training and the disciplines professional performers develop

For more information and to book your place, click the Opportunity Info link below!

Always wanted to act? Discover what professional actor training is really like twice a week over 8 weeks in this evening course.

Key information:

• Dates: 25 January - 17 March 2027
• Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 7pm - 9:30pm
• Location: In person, Swiss Cottage Campus
• Experience level: No previous acting experience required
• Class size: 16
• Course fee: £595

What will this course help you achieve?

• Learn the techniques actors use to create truthful, engaging performances
• Bring characters to life through imagination, improvisation and creative exploration
• Develop greater confidence, presence and self-expression through practical voice and movement techniques
• Experience the process of taking a scene from page to performance through rehearsal and scene work

What will you leave with?

• Confidence performing and expressing yourself in front of others
• A toolkit of practical acting techniques you can continue developing beyond the course
• First-hand experience of conservatoire-style actor training and the skills professional performers develop
• Experience bringing scripts to life through scene work, rehearsal and performance
• A clearer understanding of whether further acting training, drama school or performance opportunities are right for you

For more information and to book your place, click the Opportunity Info link below!

Applications are open now for LYT ONSTAGE. Join our performance company!

Our season runs January–December, and members can return for multiple years.

At LYT, 60% of members participate for free, while others pay what they can through tiered pricing. Simply tell us what’s affordable in your application — no bursary application needed.

What does a year at LYT involve?

• January - April: Show 1: Get to know the company and begin rehearsals for the first production of the year.
• May - June: Workshops: Develop your performance skills with leading industry creatives as you prepare for Show 2. Flexible scheduling around exam season.
• July - August: Show 2: Our largest production of the year, with three weeks of Monday–Friday rehearsals followed by a final week of technical rehearsals.
• September - December: Show 3: A devised production where you create an original production from scratch.

We rehearse every Saturday from 11:30am to 3:30pm at LYT is based at 1A Tower Street in Covent Garden. The Summer Intensive (Show 2) rehearses Monday - Friday in late July to mid-August.

Interested? We’d love to meet you! Click the Opportunity Info link below to sign up for a free Taster Session!

Join award-winning producer, writer and co-founder of the Women's Prize for Playwriting, Ellie Keel, as she offers insights into how to enjoy a successful career in theatre, even in a cultural climate where artistic opportunities can seem fewer in number and more competitive when they do exist.

In a world where artists need to be entrepreneurs as well as creatives, we'll explore how to maintain vision and volition, through a mix of identifying gaps in the market, creating opportunities, building relationships, and taking strategic risks with the reward of making the work you want to make.

This Masterclass will reveal how to start new ways of working, how to sustain yourself both commercially and creatively, and how to find the support you need to make things happen. Ellie will share her experiences of engaging and retaining stakeholders, garnering support, and – whether staging a play or starting a prize competition which evolves into a registered charity – learning the skill of effective fundraising.

This Masterclass, aimed at early- to mid-career theatre-makers, will equip participants with practical tools, fresh insights and clearer ideas about what they will make next.

Key Information:

• Date: Monday 9 November 2026
• Time: 13.30-15.00
• Venue: National Theatre Studio, 83-101 The Cut, SE1 8LL
• Cost: FREE

For more information and to book, click the Opportunity Info link below!

Please note: This event has been fully booked. Join the waitlist for the chance to secure a place!

Do you have a story to tell? Can you imagine it performed live, by actors on a stage? It’s time to start your playwriting journey!

The Royal Court Young Playwrights Award is a free, open-access competition for anyone aged 13-18 in the UK. All entrants receive personal feedback, and winners will have their plays professionally performed in London and published by Nick Hern Books.

This free workshop, led by award-winning playwright Tife Kusoro, will help you get started coming up with ideas and writing scenes for your play.

About Tife Kusoro:

Tife’s debut play, G, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in August 2024, and won the George Devine Award for most promising new playwright. Her work has also received the Playwrights '73 Award and the Lynne Gagliano Writers' Award, and been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry, the Women's Prize for Playwriting, the Verity Bargate Award, and the Alfred Fagon Award.

Key Information:

• Date: Saturday 21 November
• Time: 3pm - 4.30pm
• Location: Theatre Royal Bath, Sawclose, Bath, BA1 1ET
• Cost: FREE
• Ages: 13-18

For more information and to book, click the Opportunity Info link below!

Undertaking PhD study gives you the opportunity to engage with an area of drama, theatre, or performance in depth and at an advanced level. East 15 Acting School, with its growing research profile and internationally recognised research quality is an obvious home for such research.

At East 15, research degree students will undertake one of two paths of enquiry. The PhD in Drama and Performance is a conventional PhD whereby candidates are assessed via thesis and viva voce examination. For the PhD Drama and Performance (Practice-as-Research) course, candidates are assessed via practice-as-research, a thesis that contextualises and analyses the performance practice in relation to the research topic, and a viva voce examination. For guidance, areas of expected practice include: theatre directing, dramaturgy, actor training, design (scenery, sound, lighting, costume), and performance art.

For more information, click the Opportunity Info link below!

Undertaking PhD study gives you the opportunity to engage with an area of drama, theatre, or performance in depth and at an advanced level. East 15 Acting School, with its growing research profile and internationally recognised research quality is an obvious home for such research.

At East 15, research degree students will undertake one of two paths of enquiry. The PhD in Drama and Performance is a conventional PhD whereby candidates are assessed via thesis and viva voce examination. For the PhD Drama and Performance (Practice as Research) course, candidates are assessed via practice as research, a thesis that contextualises and analyses the performance practice in relation to the research topic, and a viva voce examination. For guidance, areas of expected practice include: theatre directing, dramaturgy, actor training, design (scenery, sound, lighting, costume), and performance art.

For more information, click the Opportunity Info link below!