
Artist Development: Collaborate
*Applications are now closed*
Collaborate is our new, free, professional development programme, made possible through public funding from Arts Council England.
Collaborate has been designed to support emerging to early career creatives, with an interest in working as a professional artist or advancing their professional performance or theatre-making careers in Blackpool.
The programme will be supported by specialist, industry mentors and delivered by nationally significant artists and companies including Harry Clayton-Wright, Ruth E Cockburn, Frantic Assembly, Les Enfants Terribles and imitating the dog.
Selected artists will have the opportunity to take part in an exciting programme of activity consisting of creative and practical sessions, sharings and scratch performances which will run on various dates from June through to October. You can click the links to the right of this page to see full details of our upcoming workshops.
If you are interested in developing your career in performance and/or theatre-making and think you could benefit from taking part in Collaborate, then please click here for more details and to learn how to apply.
© Image by Frantic Assembly
Everyone is welcome to watch our artists rehearsals and work in progress sharings. No need to book.
You can find the schedule for the week below:


Workshops
Frantic Assembly: The Frantic Method: Introductory Workshop
Saturday 25 June
10am-5pm
Ruth E Cockburn: Performers are Doing it for Themselves: Making & Touring a small-scale, self sufficient show
Sunday 26 June
12-5.30pm
Les Enfants Terribles: Devising Immersive Theatre
Thursday 30 June
1-4pm
Les Enfants Terribles: Creating Adaptations and Making Work for Specific Audiences – Seminar
Thursday 30 June
4.30-6pm
Seamus Fox: Writing for Site Specific Performance
Monday 4 July
10am-1pm
Michael Holdsworth: Improvisation Skills for Actors & Theatre Makers
Monday 4 July
2-5pm
Lisa Carolan: Singing and Vocal Care for the Performer
Tuesday 5 July
10am-1pm
Dawn Collinge: Choreography and Movement Composition for Performers
Tuesday 5 July
2-5pm
Harry Clayton-Wright: The Art of Being an Artist
Wednesday 6 July
12-5pm
Laura Catlow: An Introduction to Song Writing and Self-Contained Technical Support for Solo Shows
Saturday 9 July
12-5pm
Mykey Young: Creating Performance Products from a Client Brief
Sunday 10 July
10am-6pm
A Whistlestop Tour of Arts Admin with David Sheppeard
Saturday 20 August
10am-4pm
Les Enfants Terribles: Puppetry
Friday 23 September
10am-1pm
imitating the dog: Weekend Residency
Saturday 24 + Sunday 25 September
10am-5.30pm