Curious about producing? Not sure what it actually is? Want to learn by doing?
Raze Collective’s FREE Young Producers Club returns for its third year, offering a hands-on taster into producing queer events 🙌🏾
What is YPC?
We particularly encourage & will prioritise queer people of colour
The VAULT Creative Arts Playwriting Award 2026 is open for submissions.
In 2025, VAULT Creative Arts launched the VCA Playwriting Award – a scheme to support early-career writers find meaningful pathways into the performing arts. In its inaugural year, the scheme paid a winning writer a £2,000 fee, and included a fully-produced realisation of their script.
Up to 15 shortlisted writers will receive:
- Written, developmental feedback on your script.
- Invitation to a talk by Methuen Drama on getting work published.
And, 2 runners-up will also receive:
- Two, hour-long one-on-one mentorship sessions with our Artistic Director.
- Free, on-the-door comps to shows at The Glitch, and 15% off food and drink for a year.
They're looking for:
- Completed scripts 60 to 90 minutes in length. (This would be roughly 40 to 70 A4 pages.)
- Scripts must be a world premiere - they may have had rehearsed readings, or short runs of up to 3 shows, but have never been fully produced.
- Scripts should be written to be performed with a maximum of two actors.
- Scripts should tell a riveting, engaging story – with a strong preference for unique, untold stories from under-represented voices.
They're particularly interested in:
- Vibrant: fun, fast-paced, colourful, and full of life.
- Intimate: makes the audience feel safe and connected
- Inspiring and Impactful: empowering and encouraging audiences to realise their potential.
- Ambitious: pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved in our humble venue.
- Optimised for in-the-round: Our venue is in-the- round. We'd like to see work that fits this layout.
In exchange, the winner agrees to:
- Grant VCA the rights to produce the script for its run at The Glitch.
- Grant VCA exclusive producing rights to the script in the year following its production at The Glitch.
- Grant VCA the title of “Originating Producer”, and a 5% share of income for any future productions of the script.
- Grant VCA the right-of-first-refusal on any future productions of the script.
To apply, please submit the first 10-pages of your script, along with a brief story, theme, and character synopsis, and a CV. If your script is shortlisted, they will ask you to submit the full script. Application is free.
Theatre for Life, in collaboration with Beyond Reflections is seeking four Transgender+ actors to take part in an upcoming intergenerational verbatim theatre project that centres real stories, lived experiences, and the celebration of Trans+ history.
This project uses verbatim theatre techniques, drawing directly from interviews, conversations, and shared experiences. The performance will honour personal narratives while celebrating Trans+ resilience, heritage, and community across generations.
Who they're looking for:
About the process:
They are committed to creating a safe, inclusive, and respectful space for all participants. This project aims to uplift Trans+ voices, honour history, and build understanding through shared storytelling.
Dates:
Audition: 28th February at Theatre Royal Winchester (Please select times below)
Rehearsals start from 9th March - 17th August (Every Monday, excluding bank holidays )
Preview performance at Mayflower Studios: 29th and 30th August as part of Pride Southampton
Theatre Tour: Two professional venues in November (Dates TBC)
Dive into inspiring sessions with creative organisations large and small. Meet with artists, designers, tattooists, theatre-makers, writers and creatives, and find out about careers that you didn’t even know existed.
Whether you're curious about theatre, visual arts, design, writing, music or beyond, this event is crafted to ignite your potential, spark ideas, and show you the endless possibilities ahead. If you’re a student choosing GCSE options, next step pathways, or you’re ready to survey the employment landscape, then this careers fair is for you.
Focussing on creative roles across a variety of industries, this is your opportunity to access presentations, panel discussions, TED-style talks, interactive stands, competitions, CV sessions – all led by professionals at the top of their game. This year panels will include LW Theatres, Glyndebourne, Cameron Mackintosh Limited, Autograph Sound, Unusual Rigging, Whitelight alongside freelance playwrights, designers and actors at the top of their game, and senior leaders from CFT.
You'll also be able to receive guidance, and quiz experts on apprenticeships, trainee schemes, career pathways and employment opportunities. Whether you’re looking to explore design, writing, music, a skilled trade, technical production, digital creation, gaming, public speaking, theatre or more, we can help.
When: 3 February, 9am - 5pm
Further Than The Edge Productions are restarting weekly Open Level Acting Workshops for adults in two Camden venues from the second week of January.
A motivating, fun and safe space for beginners, and people with experience who want to develop existing skills.
Develop your creativity, your skills of voice, space and movement, work collaboratively on improvisation and scripts, have fun, build your confidence.
This is a great place to start or to keep up your existing skillset.
Where and When:
2 courses of workshops running weekly, 2 different Camden venues - Wednesdays and Fridays
You can book and attend either Wednesdays or Fridays, or both!
10 weeks, mornings 10am - 12.30pm
Wednesdays - 14 January to 18 March
Fridays - 16 Jan to 27 March
Cost and Booking:
Book at any time, you don't have to start on the first session
Both workshops are on a Pay-What-You-Like sliding scale between £10 to £30 per session. Book per session as you attend, or for the whole course of 10.
The workshops are designed for you to find some continuity in what you do, and booking in advance guarantees your space.
Go to the website and choose the relevant PayPal link.
Please note: Venues are accessible. This is not a drop-in event, you must prebook!
Fuse Box is a six-week programme of in-person professional development workshops for actors, theatre-makers and performance creatives delivered in London by Blown Fuse in partnership with guest artists including Playfight Theatre Company, playwright Kate Austen and director Jamie Wheeler.
The series supports early- and mid-career artists in developing practical performance, devising, writing and collaboration skills essential for sustainable careers in the contemporary theatre sector.
Workshops take place at Theatre Deli, Leadenhall (London) from 30 January - 6 March 2026, 7-9pm.
Participants may book individual sessions at £35 or a full programme ticket for £175 (equivalent to one workshop free). Capacity is limited to 12 artists per workshop to ensure high-quality, practice-led learning.
Fuse Box aims to ignite creativity, build confidence, and create space for meaningful artistic connection in the region.
The Programme:
Fri 30 Jan, 7-9pm: Devising Theatre
Mon 2 Feb, 7-9pm: Beyond Naturalism with Jamie Wheeler
Fri 13 Feb, 7-9pm: Making Theatre with Communities
Fri 20 Feb, 7-9pm: Introduction to Unarmed Stage Combat with Playfight Theatre Co
Fri 28 Feb, 7-9pm: Collaborating with a Writer
Fri 6 March, 7-9pm: Testimonial Playwriting with Kate Austen
Who is it for?
Fuse Box is designed for both emerging and established theatre-makers, including:
If you're looking to learn something new, develop your practice, or expand your professional network, each workshop will provide opportunities to:
These workshops are designed for artists seeking to sharpen their craft, expand their creative toolkit and build meaningful industry connections. Whether you are an early-career theatre-maker or a more experienced artist refreshing your skills, Fuse Box offers a space to experiment, to collaborate, and to ignite new ideas.
Participants may attend the full programme or select individual workshops that best support their needs.
TheatreCraft Online will take place on Tuesday 10 February 2026.
TheatreCraft Online is the ultimate resource for anyone aged 16+ who’s curious about off-stage theatre careers. Whether you’re just starting to explore your options, in training, or already established in your career, the sessions are designed to inspire, inform and connect you with opportunities in the theatre industry – all from the comfort of your home.
No matter where you are in your journey, TheatreCraft Online offers a chance to dive beyond the curtain and find your perfect fit in off-stage theatre.
Sign up to the TheatreCraft newsletter by clicking the link below for updates and how to register.
Write Night is a series of monthly sessions for anyone interested in writing for the stage.
Sessions are on the first Thursday 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:
Thu 8 Jan, 7pm: Adaptation
A workshop all about adapting existing materials into a new play, from novels and films to documentary and verbatimThu 5 Feb, 7pm: Structure & Hope
A workshop all about structure, how to get to the end of your draft, and writing from a place of hope.Thu 5 Mar, 7pm: Writing is Rewriting
A workshop on the redrafting process and how to crack pivotal scenes.
Clean Break’s Creative Facilitation training focuses on using theatre practices to safely bring creativity into women only groups and spaces.
Participants will gain the tools they need to deliver theatre workshops with people who have experienced trauma, or to bring creative interventions to their group work or 1-to-1 sessions with clients.
Clean Break’s Creative Facilitation training focuses on using theatre practices to safely bring creativity into women only groups and spaces.
Participants will gain the tools they need to deliver theatre workshops with people who have experienced trauma, or to bring creative interventions to their group work or 1-to-1 sessions with clients.
This one-day training is for anyone who works with, or is interested in working with people in challenging or vulnerable circumstances, and wants to safely bring creativity into their practice. You could be a groupworker, facilitator, theatre maker, or frontline practitioner of any kind.
Through a mixture of interactive exercises, group work and discussion, our Creative Facilitation training provides participants with the space to build their confidence as facilitators and develop a rich toolkit to improve their practice. This session covers:
For over four decades, Clean Break has been working creatively with women with lived experience of the criminal justice system or who are at risk of entering it. The only organisation of its kind, we use tools from the world of theatre to help women build confidence, self-esteem and gain new skills.
Our work in the theatre, criminal justice and women’s sectors gives us a valuable and unique perspective on the power creativity holds to change lives, when practiced safely by trained facilitators.
