The Playground Studio creates opportunities for artists across all theatrical disciplines to explore their creative ideas. With an emphasis on process rather than product, we offer artists a unique opportunity to access the three most essential assets required by those working within the performing arts: space, time and people.

Drawing from a diverse and talented network of affiliate artists, we offer year-around master classes with visiting and resident practitioners, such as Marcello Magni and Linda Kerr Scott.

We cultivate relationships with our artists by providing a home for their works in progress, each year supporting up to six development workshops, two of which later receive generous funding that enables a substantial rehearsal period and a public showing arranged by the Playground for producers and other industry practitioners.

Productions that have been born at the Playground include The Lemon Princess by Rachel McGill (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Dostoyevski's The Idiot (The Riverside Studios), the Samuel Beckett award winner Terrific Electric (part of BITE at the Barbican 2007), and Reminiscence (Jackson's Lane Theatre, September 2008).