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  • 7.84 Theatre Company Production
    7:84 was a Scottish left-wing agitprop theatre group. The name comes from a statistic, published in the Economist in 1966, that 7% of the...
  • Aarawak Moon Productions
    Tracey Daley, Jo Martin and Josephine Melville set up Aarawak Moon Productions in 1997. Frustrated by the lack of opportunities for...
  • Adzido Pan African Dance Ensemble
    Formed in 1984 by Ghanaian dancer and choreographer George Dzikunu, Adzido has been the UK's only large-scale black dance company...
  • African Cultural Theatre Company
  • Al-Kasaba Theatre Company
    Al-Kasaba was originally established in Jerusalem in 1970 as the Theatre Arts Group. In 1984, it was renamed Shawk Theatre. In 1989 it...
  • Almeida Theatre
  • Ambiance Lunch Hour Theatre Club
    Ambiance Lunch Hour Theatre Club was founded in 1968 by American playwright and producer Ed Berman MBE. Located in the basement of the...
  • Ankur Productions
  • Antarctic Collective
  • Antarctic Collextive
  • Apples & Snakes
    Apples & Snakes is a national organisation for performance poetry and is funded by Arts Council England. They over 90 performance poetry...
  • Arcola Theatre
  • Ariya
  • Artists Alliance
  • Artsadmin
    Artsadmin makes art happen. Their vision is to be an arts lab for the 21st Century for the creation of performance, site-specific and...
  • Ask Property Developments
  • ATC Productions
    ATC challenges and inspires a wide-range of audiences by touring ambitious contemporary theatre with a strong international focus. Their...
  • Bahumutsi Drama Group
    Founded and managed by South African playwright Maishe Maponya in 1977, Bahumutsi Theatre group is a semi-professional political theatre...
  • Bahumutsi Drama Group;
  • Battersea Arts Centre Theatre Company;
  • Battersea ArtsCentre Theatre Company
  • BBC Radio Drama
  • BECreative Theatre Company
    BeCreative develops and presents theatre in London, the UK, and beyond. They specialise in supporting and developing the work of artists...
  • Beg Borrow Steel
  • BiBi Crew
  • Big Creative Ideas
    Big Creative Ideas is a Midlands-based theatre company committed to producing new, high quality, culturally diverse work. Their first...
  • Birmingham Repertory Theatre
    The theatre rapidly became home to one of most famous and exciting repertory theatre companies in the country, reinventing the idea of...
  • Black Angel's Theatre Company
  • Black Arts Alliance
  • Black Arts Development Project
  • Black Theatre Co-operative
    The Black Theatre Co-operative (now Nitro) was co-founded in 1979 by Trinidadian playwright Mustapha Matura, and British director Charlie...
  • Black Theatre Forum
    In 1985 the Black Theatre Forum (BTF) was founded to stimulate the development of black theatre in Britain and BTF functioned as an...
  • Black Theatre of Brixton
    The Dark and Light Theatre Company, later called the Black Theatre of Brixton, was founded by Frank Cousins in the early 1970s. By the...
  • Black Theatre Season
    Inititated by Jamaican director and actor Anton Phillips, Black Theatre Season was a Greater London Committe (GLC) Ethnic Arts Sub...
  • Brent Black People's Theatre
  • Bristol Old Vic Theatre
    Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol. The present company was established in 1946 as an...
  • Bristol Old Vic Theatre;
  • Bush Theatre
    Established in 1972 The Bush Theatre is one of the most celebrated new writing theatres in the world.
  • Cardboard Citizens
  • Cardboard Citizens;
  • Carib Theatre Company
    Carib Theatre company was founded in 1980 by Jamaican actors-directors Anton Phillips, and Yvonne Brewster. With Phillips as its artistic...
  • Clean Break Theatre Company
    Clean Break Theatre Company was founded by two women in prison in 1979. From its roots as a small-scale fringe theatre company, it has...
  • Co-production between A Play
  • Co-production between Fuel
  • Co-production between National Theatre
  • Co-production between Pilot Theatre
  • Co-production between Royal Court and Young Vic
  • Co-production between Royal Court Theatre and Market Theatre
  • Co-production between Undercurrent and Camden's People's Theatre in partnership with the British Library
  • Cockpit Theatre
  • Collective Artistes Theatre Company
    Collective Artistes (CA) is a professional theatre company committed to producing excellent theatrical experiences that tell the stories...
  • Commonwealth Arts Festival
    The first Commonwealth Arts Festival, organised by the impressario Ian Hunter, was held in Britian in 1965. It lasted for 17 days with...
  • Commonwealth United Entertainments Ltd
  • Concrete Theatre
  • Conspirators Project
  • Contact Theatre
  • Coproduction between Pilot Theatre
  • Cries from the Heart
  • Crying in the Wilderness
  • Dark and Light Theatre
    The Dark and Light Theatre Company, later called the Black Theatre of Brixton, was founded by Frank Cousins in the early 1970s. By the...
  • Decibel
  • Derby Playhouse
    The present day Derby Playhouse was officially opened on 20 September 1975 by the 11th Duke of Devonshire. It was the culmination of...
  • Double Edge Theatre Company
  • Drama Society
  • Drill Hall
  • Eastern Angles Theatre Company
    Eastern Angles is the regional touring theatre company for the East of England. Formed in 1982, Eastern Angles has blazed a trail across...
  • Eclipse Theatre Company
    Eclipse theatre began in 2003 as an ACE initiative in agreement with a consortium of regional theatres. The project aimed to address the...
  • Embassy Studio Theatre
  • English Stage Company
  • Essequibo Music
  • Everyman Theatre
  • Faceless Theatre Company
  • Faith Drama Prodcutions
  • Farnham Maltings / Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
  • Fifth Column Theatre
  • Flight
  • Foco Novo
    Foco Novo Theatre Company was founded in 1971 by British director Roland Rees, American playwright Bernard Pomerance, and British...
  • Fuel in partnership with Oran Mor and the National Theatre of Scotland
  • Fuel Theatre
  • Future Tense
  • Gate Theatre
  • Gay Sweatshop
  • Generator Festival of New Writing by Black Playwrights
  • Glasgay
  • Graeae Theatre Company
  • Gyenyame For Performing Arts
    In 1998, Gyenyame for Performing Arts was founded by Larry Coke to commission and produce multi-cultural opera and dance productions of...
  • Half Moon Young People's Theatre
  • Hampstead Theatre
  • Harmony Theatre
  • Heat and Light
  • High Tide Festival
  • Hightide Festival (with Soho Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company
  • Host Universal
    Host Universal
  • House of Boache
  • Hydroponic
  • In association with Farnham Maltings and Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
  • Inner City
  • Institute of Contemporary Arts
    Founded in 1946 by Roland Penrose, Peter Watson, Herbert Read, Peter Gregory, Geoffrey Grigson, and E.L.T. Mesens, the Institute of...
  • Inter-Action
    Inter-Action was founded in 1968 by the American playwright and producer Ed Berman, MBE. Based in Kentish Town, London, Inter-Action was...
  • Inventory Productions
  • Iron Shoes
  • Jerico
  • Joint Stock
  • Keskidee Arts Centre
    The Keskidee Centre was founded by Guyanese born architect and cultural activist Oscar Abrams. Abrams wanted to provide both self-help...
  • Kingston Dramatic Club
  • Kushite Theatre Company
  • League of Coloured Peoples
  • Live Theatre
  • Liverpool Playhouse
  • London Word Festival
  • Lyric Hammersmith
  • Manchester International Festival
  • Manchester; Library Theatre Company;
  • Market Theatre
  • Massive Company
  • Maya Productions
  • Menageries Theatre Company
  • Mojisola Adebayo
  • Monstrous Regiment
  • National Black Arts Alliance
  • National Black Arts Alliance;
  • National Theatre of Nigeria
  • National Theatre Studio
  • National Theatre;
  • National Youth Theatre in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre
  • National Youth Theatre;
  • New End Theatre
  • New Movement Theatre
  • New Perspectives Theatre Company
  • New Spang Productions
  • New Wosley Theatre
  • Nimble Fish
  • Nitro (Black Theatre Co-operative
    Originally set up as the Black Theatre Co-operative, in 1997 the company changed its name to Nitro. Under the directorship of Felix Cross...
  • North West Playwrights
  • Nos de Morro
  • Nottingham Playhouse
  • Octagon Theatre
  • Odu Themes Company
  • Offstage Theatre in association with Theatre Uncut
  • Old Vic Theatre
  • Olivia Wingate Productions
  • Original Sin
  • Ovalhouse
  • Ovalhouse and Lost Kids Collective
  • Ovalhouse and The Art Machine
  • Ovalhouse Theatre;
  • Over The Edge Theatre Company
  • Oxford Playhouse Company
  • Paines Plough;
  • Pentabus Theatre Company
  • Pentabus Theatre Company in partnership with BBC Radio Drama
  • Perspective Theatre Company
  • Phoenix Dance Company
    Phoenix Dance Company was formed in 1981 by David Hamilton (Artistic Director), Donald Edwards and Vilmore James, three young men who had...
  • Pilot Theatre
  • Plays in Schools Project
  • Playsize for ATC Productions
  • Pleasance Theatre
  • Polka Theatre
  • Post Office Theatre Company
  • Pursued by a Bear Productions
    Pursued by a Bear Productions was formed in 1998 by director Stuart Mullins and RSC actor Joseph Millson and quickly established a...
  • Queenie Productions
  • Queerupnorth
  • Red Ladder Theatre Company
  • Rigg's O'Hara Theatre Company
  • Riksteatern
  • Riverside Studios
  • Royal and Derngate
  • Royal Court Theatre
  • Royal Court's Young People's Theatre
  • Royal Exchange Theatre
  • Royal Exchange Theatre Company
  • Royal Exchange Theatre;
  • Royal National Theatre Studio
  • Royal Shakespeare Company
  • Sass Theatre Company
  • Seven by Seven Season
  • Shared Experience Theatre;
  • Sheffield Theatres
  • Shoreditch Theatre Company
  • Soho Theatre Company
  • Soho Theatre Company;
  • South African State Theatre;
  • Sphinx Theatre Group: Women's Theatre Group
  • Staunch Poets and Players
    The Poets and Players were a group of actors, dancers, writers and musicians who came together in 1979. Using a core group of seven...
  • Stonewall
  • Talawa Theatre Company
    Founded in 1986 by Yvonne Brewster, Carmen Munroe, Mona Hammond and Inigo Espejel, Talawa Theatre Company is Britain's foremost Black-led...
  • Talawa Theatre Company and Soho Theatre
  • Tales From the Motherland
  • Temba Theatre Company
    Temba Theatre Company named after the Zulu word for 'hope' or 'trust' founded in 1972 by actors Alton Kumalo and Oscar James was the...
  • The African and Caribbean Music Circuit
  • The Albany
  • The Combination
  • The Door
  • The Ijinle Theatre Company
  • The London Borough of Newham
  • The Mamu Players
  • The Media Theatre Company
  • The Open Space
  • The Pantomine Company
  • The Posse
  • The Post Office Theatre
  • The Royal Court
  • The Royal Court Theatre;
  • The Tricycle Theatre
  • The Women's Playhouse Trust
  • The Yard
  • Theatre
  • Theatre Centre
  • Theatre of Black Women
    Founded by Bernadine Evaristo, Patricia Hilaire and Paulette Randall all playwrights and actresses who trained at Rose Bruford College of...
  • Theatre of Darkness
  • Theatre Royal
  • Theatre Venture
  • This is Now Theatre Company
  • Tiata Fahodzi
    The British-African theatre Tiata Fahodzi (meaning theatre of the emancipated) was created in 1997 by actor-director Femi Elufowoju jr,...
  • Tiata Fahodzi with Watford Palace Theatre
  • Tickle Theatre
  • Time Warner Ignite
  • Told by an Idiot
  • Tomasha
  • Truly Fierce Productions
  • Umoja Theatre Company
    Founded by Gloria Hamilton.
  • Warehouse Croydon
  • Warwick Arts Centre
  • Wazalendo Players
  • West Yorkshire Playhouse
  • Wild Iris
  • WilsonWilson
  • Woman's Theatre Group London
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  • York Theatre Royal
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