Are you an emerging actor based in the Liverpool City Region? Are you passionate about acting and performance, keen to develop your skills, and excited by the opportunity to work collaboratively as part of an ensemble? If so, Actors LAB could be for you!
We’re bringing together six local actors with writer Billie Collins and director Ameera Conrad to explore ideas for a brand-new piece of writing for young people aged 13–25, around the theme of Connection.
As part of Actors LAB, you’ll have the chance to:
Whether you’re at the beginning of your professional acting journey or looking for an opportunity to deepen your practice, Actors LAB is a space to experiment, collaborate and develop your skills alongside other emerging local performers.
Essential information:
For more information and to apply, click the Opportunity Info link below!
The upskilling workshops are part of our brand-new Artist Development Programme, designed to support emerging disabled artists in developing their professional artistic career and practice. Led by leading disability arts organisations, you will have the opportunity to develop skills to grow your artistic practice.
What can I expect from an upskilling workshop?
When and where are the workshops?
Programme:
Monday 7th September 2026, 3-5pm - ‘Creative Leadership: Making Space to Lead’ with Corali
Dancers from Corali will talk about how to enable learning disabled performers take a lead role in creative processes. By exploring Corali’s own methods of making original dance works, they will showcase how learning disabled creatives can grow in confidence and develop as leaders.
Monday 14th September 2026, 3-5pm - Top Tips for Self-Producing with Alison King (Chief Executive, Turtle Key Arts)
Want to understand what a producer does? Learn about the logistics behind setting up your project, budget tips, funding, how to work with a team and a producer, as well as tips on how to self produce at the beginning of your career journey.
Monday 21st September 2026, 3-5pm - ‘Pathways to Developing Disabled Leadership in the Arts’ with Extant
Artistic Director, Dr. Maria Oshodi of Extant, the UK’s longest performing arts company of visually impaired artists, will lead a session on pathways to developing disabled leadership in the arts. Referencing the different methods which Extant has established over the last 30 years, this session will explore the challenges and successes of practical and tested ideas, such as peer academy theatre training, in-house Artistic Director training and organisational dramaturgy; all through an interactive and lively approach.
Monday 28th September 2026, 3-5pm - TBC
Monday 5th October 2026, 3-5pm - 'Presenting Me' with Access All Areas
Access All Areas’ Artistic Director, Nick Llewellyn, and Associate Director, Emma Selwyn, discuss the ideas behind some of Access All Areas’ shows. They explore autobiographical performance-making through videos and practical demonstrations. Workshop participants will reflect on how they can draw on their own experiences, and use these experiences to think through how to develop potential new contemporary shows.
For more information and to sign up, click the Opportunity Info link below!
Part of Punchdrunk's Community Workshops
Back by popular demand, join actor and theatre practitioner Kat McGarr for this playful introduction to the world of comedy and clowning.
Through games, improvisation and practical exercises drawn from Kat’s career – and influenced by her training with Philippe Gaulier and The Groundlings – you’ll explore some of the core techniques performers use to discover humour, connect with an audience, and embrace the freedom of being gloriously ridiculous.
KEY INFORMATION:
For more information and to sign up, click the Opportunity Info link below!
Part of Punchdrunk's Community Workshops
This workshop invites participants to explore how our lived experiences can become a starting point for making theatre. Through playful, practical and reflective exercises, you’ll explore ways of transforming personal memories, feelings, stories and fragments of experience into creative material for performance.
With a particular focus on grief and loss, you’ll consider how these experiences might be explored through the body, voice, movement, writing and text, and in the compositions created together.
KEY INFORMATION:
For more information and to sign up, click the Opportunity Info link below!
Applications are now open for Sprint Festival 2027.
FESTIVAL OVERVIEW:
The most intense hit you’ll find, anywhere in the UK, of ambitious new performance: CPT’s annual SPRINT festival is back! Every Spring, we throw open our doors to artists at the very start of their careers making bold and brand new work. (And "early career" hasn't got anything to do with age - whether you're 18 or 108, we want to hear from you). For four weeks, that work populates our stage, twisting theatre into new shapes and fashioning fantastic experiences for audiences.
In years gone by, SPRINT has showcased early work by artists including Sh!t Theatre, Vijay Patel, Liv Ello, Frankie Thompson, Nina Bowers and more. If you’ve got a current, compelling and cutting-edge performance project brewing, one that needs support or a showcase to be its best self, let us know. We’d love to hear from you.
CALLOUT FOR ARTISTS:
The majority of programming slots will be for work that is finished and performance-ready by March 2026. We will also consider works-in-progress and ‘scratch’ performances.
We welcome and encourage applications from artists from a socio-economic background under-represented in the arts; and/or who identify as:
*This includes people of Black Caribbean, Black African, South Asian, East Asian, South East Asian, Middle Eastern, Arab, Latinx, Jewish, Romany and Irish Traveller heritage.
WHAT WE ARE AND AREN'T LOOKING FOR:
We want: Performance the likes of which we’ve never seen before. New shows, new ways of making theatre, new experiences for audiences.
We don’t want: Revivals of classic plays; academic projects; dance (as opposed to dance-theatre). Much as we love all that stuff, it’s not what Sprint exists to support and stage.
WHAT WE PROVIDE:
The CPT arrangement with SPRINT artists is flexible according to the needs of each show, but our default offer in 2027 is:
DEADLINE: Midday 23 September
For more information and to apply, click the Opportunity Info link below!
Are you a musician, singer, rapper or spoken word artist aged 15-25? Want to experiment, collaborate and create something completely new?
Nu Noize: Next Sound Collective is a free three-month creative music project bringing together talented young artists from across Liverpool to collaborate with professional musicians and develop an original new sound.
You’ll explore what happens when different musical styles, cultures and influences come together — from hip hop and R&B to Chinese traditional music and beyond.
What will you do?
You'll be supported by:
Kofi Owusu – Go Play Studios
Zi Lan Liao – Musician & CEO, Pagoda Arts
Paisleigh Bi – R&B artist & songwriter
Whether you're an established young artist or simply excited about making music and trying something different, we want to hear from you.
How to apply:
Send to Leonisha@20storieshigh.org.uk:
Don't worry about recording quality — we simply want to hear what you do.
Essential information:
For more information, click the Opportunity Info link below!
Not sure of your next steps? Front line gives 16-30-year-olds the opportunity to discover more about careers in theatre and develop key transferable skills through paid placements with our Front Of House team.
Participants will watch one of our productions, shadow various members of staff and take on important roles welcoming visitors to our theatre. The project culminates with a CV and interview skills workshop to help you take the next steps in your career.
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME:
Front Line is a paid work experience opportunity for people who are keen to explore jobs in hospitality and customer service. By taking part in Front Line, you will gain up to 26 hours of paid on-the-job experience in the following areas:
All sessions are paid at London Living Wage (£14.80 per hour).
WHO IS THIS PROGRAMME?
Front Line is designed to support people who have little to no work experience take their first steps into the world of work in a supported and inclusive environment. No prior experience is necessary in order to take part, but we are looking for participants who are passionate about customer service and working with people.
You must:
We are committed to identifying and resolving barriers which may ordinarily exclude people from accessing theatre and will prioritise people who have had limited or no access to arts opportunities in the past. This includes people from the global majority, care-experienced people, carers, disabled people, neurodivergent people, people from working-class backgrounds and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
HOW TO APPLY:
Front Line cohorts will run from Nov–Dec 2026 and Jan–Feb 2027. Applications are now open and will close on Tue 15 Sep at 5pm. Head to our website to apply.
We will be holding an online information session on Mon 07 Sep at 2.30–3.30pm to talk more about the programme and answer any questions.
For more information and to apply, click the Opportunity Info link below!
Fearless. Collaborative. Powered by young voices. Generator is ThickSkin’s ambitious company for young professional theatre makers, designed to launch the next generation of fearless talent.
The Generator Company will create a brand-new piece of theatre — devised from the ground up, in collaboration with our Artistic Director. Developed and performed at our studio in the heart of Wigan, this show will spotlight raw talent, local stories, and ThickSkin’s trademark visual and physical style.
Sign up to our open auditions for this paid opportunity to perform in ThickSkin’s Generator Company.
Places are allocated on first come first served basis until full.
ThickSkin is looking for ten talented young performers aged 18-25 to join our Generator Company next Spring. Over two intensive weeks in Wigan, you’ll create and perform a brand-new theatre piece, while fully immersing yourself in our innovative creative process.
KEY INFO:
For more information and to apply, click the Opportunity Info link below!
Write Night is a series of monthly sessions for anyone interested in writing for the stage.
Sessions are on the first Wednesday evening of every month, run by Soho Theatre’s own iconic Bombay-born, London-based Creative Associate Pooja Sivaraman (Clean Break, Theatre503, Coney) and award winning Walthamstow playwright Sonali Bhattacharyya (Bristol Old Vic, Young Vic, Chichester Festival Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, BBC)
Whether you’re a total beginner or a more experienced writer, Write Night is open to everyone!
Each session will be organised around a theme and you can book them as standalone sessions, or you can book the whole lot! Totally up to you.
SESSIONS:
Wed 2 Sep 7pm-9pm: Adaptation
A workshop all about adapting existing materials into a new play, from novels to films to documentary and verbatim.
Wed 7 Oct 7pm-9pm: Performing Activism
A workshop looking at how theatre troupes around the world use the stage as a medium of protest. What are the tools to keep in hand when you’re writing about something that makes you angry?
Wed 4 Nov 7pm-9pm: Rap, Rhyme and Musical theatre
A workshop all about how to write lyrics and rhyme for musicals and gig theatre
Wed 2 Dec 7pm-9pm: Writing is Rewriting
A workshop on the redrafting process and how to crack pivotal scenes
There will be teaching, writing exercises and discussion (not to mention tea and biscuits). If any or all of the above sessions sound interesting to you, we’d love for you to pop by and try it out.
If you have any questions at all, email us at engagement@sohotheatre.com – we’re happy to help.
For more information and to book, click the Opportunity Info link below!
If you’re thinking about trying stand-up for the first time, our Comedy Lab: Stand Up is for you.
Our 10-week Stand-Up Comedy Lab will help you find your comedic voice and hone your writing and performance skills. You will be working with course leader and iconic comedian Sikisa, as well as other guest artists, to create your own 5-minute set which you will perform in front of a live and supportive audience at the end of term.
The Comedy Lab: Stand Up group meet weekly on Saturdays, with a public sharing at the end which will take place on a Monday evening at our Dean Street venue.
COURSE STRUCTURE:
We ask that participants commit to attending all 10 weeks. Please note the above is a rough outline and subject to change.
FEES:
£150 (partial and full bursaries are available to those on Universal Credit and other welfare benefits. However, if cost is a barrier to participating, contact us at engagement@sohotheatre.com and we can discuss payment options)
DEADLINE: Monday 7th September 2026 at noon
For more information and to apply, click the Opportunity Info link below!
