Over 5 days, our young theatre-makers will create their own work to be performed for parents at an informal Studio show back on the final day.
Supported by a drama practitioner and drama support worker, the group will decide what they make.
It could be a comedy, tragedy or a musical, but it will be all their own work!
Date: Monday 28 July - Friday 1 August 2025
Time: 9.30am-3.30pm
We provide professional development opportunities for actors, writers, artists, designers and makers from the region
We strive to be a creative hub in the city that allows for peer learning and support, nurturing a culture of shared opportunities and experiences to support in career development and sustainability.
We know that all work, at every scale, starts somewhere and that it can be incredibly difficult to access space and support to develop new work in it's initial stages.
As part of our Studio programme, we have created Open Door to new and developing professional work.
Project A is Newcastle Theatre Royal's flagship Actor Training Company.
It's role is to establish the foundations and rigors of actor training whilst challenging and supporting our students, providing opportunities to progress into further training or into a professional rehearsal room. The course is focused towards giving our students the skills to forge a sustainable pathway or career in the arts.
Project A nurtures collaborative, considerate and thinking actors and instill a level of professionalism in our students from day one. The very nature of such vocational learning allows for playing, exploring and taking risks whilst being immersed in the culture of the rehearsal room in a supportive environment.
Over 90% of our graduates go on to work professionally, gain agent representation or a place at Drama School within 6 months of graduation.
We work with an ensemble focus to ensure that our students are supported as artists, collaborators and makers. We encourage taking ownership of individual, creative development as an actor, helping our students to carve their own process by exposing them to diverse approaches to creating character and work. There is no one size fits all approach to becoming an actor and so we support our students by providing a broad training in traditional and modern day practice, voice and movement.
Attendance and punctuality across the course is compulsory.
Newcastle Theatre Royal
This course is designed to equip students with the skills needed to pursue roles in the technical theatre and stage management industry.
The course offers a high degree of practical experience to take students through the various grades of technical theatre and stage management with the ultimate goal of students entering the profession after completion. Upon completion of the programme students will have a considerable amount of experience working on our vast output of public performances with professional directors; students will also have a sizeable portfolio of work which will help them to gain employment.
Students will study a broad range of areas before moving into an area for specialism. This will be facilitated by a core team of technical professionals and a wider range of industry freelancers. This will help to create relationships for future employment in the sector.
Working out of Gosforth Civic Theatre's Cafe Bar, the placement offers a varied role, developing skills including:
In addition, our placements will provide valuable, softer life skills:
Our mission
To raise everyone's expectations about what people with learning disabilities can achieve.
We believe that every young person embarking on a work placement has the potential to succeed. Our staff are dedicated to the overall welfare of every trainee to ensure that they develop work and life skills across the duration of the placement.
How does it work?
To help us evaluate if the cafe is the right opportunity for you, we will:
Cost
This programme is fee based. Fee based programmes can be funded through either a young person's education and health care plan, or direct payments/personal budget. You can find out more about this from your college transitions officer or your local social work team.
To sign up, or to find out more, please contact Rebecca via the email address listed below.
