The places available are:

• Assistant Director
• Assistant Musical Director
• Assistant Choreographer
• Designer
• Deputy Stage Manager

Each placement involves working alongside our professional artistic staff on residential courses across the UK . The workshops usually involve between 25 and 45 young people aged 11-21. The placements are ideally suited to those wishing to develop a caree in music theatre or related areas and who are committed to working with young people.

The Productions involve young people selected from auditions across the UK. These projects will be creating new music theatre in a variety of genres. production courses generally run for 2-3 weeks.

Summer Skills, on the other hand, involves young people from a wide range of backgrounds, some from mainstream schools, some less advantaged children referred through Leaving Care Teams, Young Carers groups, Foyer projects and refugee organisations. A few may display various forms of challenging behaviour and integrating the various groups is an essential part of the project. The Studio prSummer Skills courses are all one week long, starting on a Monday and finishing on a Saturday.

The programme of activity will vary but each trainee will have a considerable level of responsibility, the exact nature of which will be decided upon in conjunction with the director or musical director of the project.

The placements are unpaid but trainees receive accommodation, food, travel and a modest allowance during their placement.

More details of the traineeships available and an application form can be downloaded from this link or at the bottom of this page.