Iris Theatre is an award-winning theatre company and charity based at The Actors Church, Covent Garden. Created in 2007, we provide transformational opportunities for early-career artists right in the heart of Central London. Iris Theatre’s Outdoor Summer Festival 2021, takes place right in the heart of Covent Garden between the months of June – August. The festival is a celebration of early-career artists and of their work, bringing together an incredible programme of exceptional theatre and performance. Five early-career artists/companies are awarded a £1,000 seed commission +...

Iris Theatre is an award-winning theatre company and charity based at The Actors Church, Covent Garden. Created in 2007, we provide transformational opportunities for early-career artists right in the heart of Central London. Over the past decade Iris has built a reputation for innovative site-specific theatre with mass appeal. The cornerstone of our year is our summer promenade performances in the grounds and buildings of the Actors’ Church in Covent Garden. Our ten week summer season generally consists of a Shakespeare play followed by a classic family story, where we produce a fresh and...

The Royal Opera is renowned both for its outstanding performances of traditional opera and for commissioning new works by today’s leading opera composers.

We believe that representation matters; diversity of identity, of perspective, of lived experience enriches our work and our lives. We develop new artists and future audiences through our renowned training programmes and our Discover activity in schools and communities. We share the theatre we make widely through transfers, tours and on screen. Welcome to important stories, thrillingly told.

Black Lives, Black Words is the definition of Activist Theatre. Dedicated to social justice, Black Lives Black Words International Project commissions, develops and produces bold and unapologetic artistic responses to current social and political issues. Through exciting partnerships with like-minded arts and academia institutions, BLBW commissions new plays and films widening the accessibility to mainstream institutions and increasing the visibility of new and existing POC artists. The ambition of BLBW has led to create a successful pathway to artistic employment opportunities in the...

Turn Point is a new London based theatre company. Creating stories about who we are, what we can achieve and who we want to be. Tickle & Scratch is a free weekly online scratchnight to help actors, writers & theatre makers connect and perform during the pandemic.

Founded by musical theatre specialist Adam Lenson and based on extensive research and study about development methodologies, we create new musicals using an artist-driven approach. This places the voices and ideas of composers, lyricists and writers at the centre of our projects. We are especially interested in innovative and contemporary work that challenges people’s preconceptions of what a musical should sound like, look like and be about.

Fractured Time Productions takes the conventions of theatre and film and breaks them into tiny pieces to bring a new and fresh outlook. The company primarily looks at eras and centuries gone past - drawing from new writing based on historical events, Shakespeare and his contemporaries and New Translations of Ancient Greek Tragedies.

Breach is a multimedia performance company founded by Dorothy Allen-Pickard, Billy Barrett and Ellice Stevens, and produced by Ellie Claughton. They collaborate with actors to create politically engaged, formally exploratory shows that blend drama and documentary. Our playtexts are published by Oberon Books and are available for purchase.

We stage short plays written, directed and performed by artists of colour. Our aim is to increase the representation of emerging BAMER creatives in theatre.

London Theatre Company supporting emerging artists and producing new works.

Slackline will put women in the driver’s seat to provide audiences with uplifting entertainment experiences that will impact their lives. We want to redress the balance in the stories being told and who’s telling them- working with female writers to offer new-writing plays that have female characters at their heart, focusing most specifically on stories of women aged 35+. Slackline wants to be more than just a theatre company. We want to support our artists and extend our reach beyond the actors, writers and directors who work on our shows to create a community (and have a lot of fun doing it...