Verity Bargate Award Workshop
24 Mar 2026
We are delighted to be partnering with Soho Theatre to host a free workshop for writers to find out how to submit their play to the Verity Bargate Award. Launched…
Opportunities & events
We offer lots of opportunities and events as part of our Furnace programme to help locally-rooted artists develop their career and projects.
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You will find free workshops below and on our What’s on pages.
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And regular updates about exciting opportunities and events right here.
For artists
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Tour Pack Workshop
10 Mar 2026
If you want programmers to book your show, you need a tour pack. But what are the do’s, don’ts, and don’t-forgets you need to help yours stand out?
For artists
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Sending Out Your Script
16 Jan – 4 Feb 2026
A guide for playwrights who want to submit work to theatres and competitions.
For artists
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Small Scale Big Impact
19 Feb 2026
A workshop for early career designers making work for fringe or studio scale venues.
Current opportunities
Small Island Rehearsal Observer
If you answered yes to all 3 questions you should apply to be a Rehearsal Observer on our upcoming production of Small Island.
Leeds Playhouse, Birmingham Rep and Nottingham Playhouse are producing a new production of Small Island in association with Actors Touring Company. Adapted from Andrea Levy’s multi-award-winning novel by Helen Edmundson, this bold new staging will be directed by Actors Touring Company’s Artistic Director Matthew Xia.
Running in our Quarry Theatre from 11-28 March, the story spans decades and continents, drawing on the joyful rhythms of calypso and the harsh realities of postwar Britain to explore the emotional truth of our collective history.
We will welcome 10 artists to observe a day each of rehearsals in Leeds. This is a free opportunity for early career theatre directors and/or movement directors who have had limited experience of a professional rehearsal room.
Director Matthew Xia says: “Small Island is a story that sits deep in my bones. This new production, the regional premiere of Helen Edmundson’s adaptation, will be expressive, intimate, and incredibly period evocative. I want audiences to feel the fabric of the 1940s and ’50s, to be immersed in the sound, texture and atmosphere of a world reshaped by war, empire, migration and love.”
Dates: 10 days between Monday 2 February and Monday 2 March
Rehearsal times: usually 10am–6pm
Deadline: Monday 5 January, 10am
If you would prefer to submit your answers via a BSL video or audio recording, please email them to naomi.sumner@leedsplayhouse.org.uk.
