Courses

Our newly launched Artist Development Programme gives professional theatre-makers a unique opportunity to train with leading artists.

On this five-day intensive course, students will focus on freeing the self from learned vocabularies and work towards a theatre which surprises and stimulates.

This six-day course is aimed at people who identify as queer and who want to explore this in a performance context, culminating in a solo, work-in-progress performance for an invited audience.

Join Katie Mitchell, one of the UK's foremost theatre practitioners, for an intensive and practical two-week course designed to help professional theatre directors develop their craft.

Take part in an 8-week evening course led by industry professionals. From acting to directing, courses are suitable for a range of abilities.

Discover how to improvise with confidence, developing spontaneity and presence along the way.

Explore Fitzmaurice Voicework®, a body-centred approach to vocal training that engages the breath, voice, body, nervous system and imagination - all in the service of speaking and singing with connection, intention and presence with minimal effort.

Open up to a sense of playfulness on this three-day introductory clowning course.

A practical introduction to physical theatre, devising and theatre-making. Exploring a broad range of creative approaches, the course will stimulate your imagination, develop your collaborative, making and performance skills while offering insights and explorations into the world of theatre-making.

Central is excited to offer this new online course specifically aimed at actors and theatre makers wanting to develop a solo show.

Working with a published playwright, this playwriting course in London practically introduces you to the skills needed to start writing a play for the stage.

Meeting virtually twice a week for eight intensive lessons this playwriting course is an exciting opportunity to work with an established playwright to explore the fundamentals of writing a play.

Working with a published playwright, this intermediate playwriting course will continue to build on the skills learnt in the introductory course.

Working with a published playwright, this intermediate playwriting course will continue to build on the skills learnt in the introductory course.

This three-week intensive programme offers those developing a passion for puppetry a unique insight into the theatre-making process with puppets.

Meeting once a week for eight intensive lessons this screenwriting course is an exciting opportunity to work with an established writer to explore the fundamentals of writing for film and television.

Central is excited to offer this new online course specifically aimed at writing for the screen.

Spend your summer at Central with a summer short course. Ranging from 2 days to 3 weeks, there are courses for all abilities.

Over three weeks you will work as part of a company with a range of tutors and a professional director, staging a semi-realised show at the end of the course.

This summer and autumn, Topher Campbell with be leading Central’s first Mentoring Programme for Black and Black LQBTQ+ artists interested in making work for the stage or interdisciplinary performance work.