Upcoming Theatre Workshops

at London Theatre Runway

Welcome to London Theatre Runway, where aspiring and professional performers come together to refine their craft and connect with industry experts. Our workshops are designed to give you real-world insights into the theatre and entertainment industry, empowering you to achieve your dreams on stage and beyond.

08

Sep

PEARSON CASTING

Pearson Casting - Casting Director

PEARSON CASTING CDG CDA CSA are an award-winning, freelance Casting House based in London and New York, founded & run by husband & wife team - Rosie & James Pearson.  In 2022 they won 'Best Casting In Regional Theatre' at the CDG Awards for their work on RENT.  They were also included in  this year’s 'Stage 100'.

Recent Theatre Includes: WICKED THE MUSICAL (UAE & INDIA TOUR) COVEN (The Kiln); HOT MESS (Edinburgh Fringe & Southwark Playhouse); NO SUCH THING AS WOLVES (Birmingham Hippodrome Studio) OPERATION MINCEMEAT (Fortune Theatre); TITANIQUE (Criterion Theatre); SIX THE MUSICAL (WEST END & UK/INTERNATIONAL TOURS); BLUEY’S BIG PLAY (UK TOUR); STARLIGHT EXPRESS (Troubadour, Wembley); COME ALIVE: THE GREATEST SHOWMAN CIRCUS SPECTACULAR (Empress Museum); CHICAGO (European Tour); THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (International Tour); PLAY ON! (Lyric Hammersmith); CLUE (US National Tour).

Pearson Casting - Audition Honesty Workshop

AUDITION HONESTY WORKSHOP

This is a 3-hour session where we and the group will give feedback on how you come across in an audition scenario.  You can perform a monologue or a song.  James will work individually on what you choose to present.  

What we'll cover:

• How do you come across in an audition?

• What type of actor are you in an audition?

• How much does a mistake in an audition really matter?

• Audition nerves.

• Ask questions about the casting process you are desperate to know about.

🗓️ 8th September
⏰ 18:30 - 21:30
📍Old Diorama
💵 £45

Email info@londontheatrerunway.com to be added to our waiting list

Sep

10

ASHLEY NOTTINGHAM & LIZZI GEE

Ashley Nottingham & Lizzi Gee - Open Dance Class

Ashley Nottingham - Choreographer

Ashley recently choreographed the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Starlight Express’, which is currently playing to packed houses at The Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, London.

He received great critical acclaim for his choreography in ‘Pacific Overtures’by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, co-produced by The Menier Chocolate Factory and Umeda Arts Theater in both London and Japan (Tokyo/Osaka performed in Japanese). Ashley provided the choreography for the forthcoming Scorpions Biopic Warner Bros movie ‘Wind of Change’. Last winter season, Ashley directed and choreographed Jack and the Beanstalk starring Rylan at the Cliffs Pavilion in Southend. He choreographed ‘Top Hat’ and ‘Singin' in the Rain’ (The Mill at Sonning), as well as UK tours of ‘Spamalot’, ‘End of the Rainbow’ and ‘Sheridan Smith in Concert’. Ashley has choreographed three annual productions for the Singapore Repertory Theatre and numerous pantomimes over the years, featuring Warwick Davis, Priscilla Presley, Lesley Joseph, Alison Hammond and Craig Revel Horwood, to name but a few.

Ashley has choreographed for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky, including the opening number of 2024 Sky Arts Awards featuring Joe Lycett and directed by Maria Friedman. He previously worked on the musical staging of Legacy: Maria Friedman & Friends. He has created dance routines for the professional dancers of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and for the UK version of Dance Mums.

He studied at The London Studio Centre, graduating with a degree in Theatre Dance and teaching qualifications with ISTD. Ashley has choreographed ‘Club NVRLND’ currently playing as the Assemble Checkpoint at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Lizzi Gee - Choreographer

Theatre as Director & Choreographer: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical(The Other Palace), Made in Dagenham (HMS Bronzefield & Pimlico Opera).

Theatre as Choreographer: Clueless (Trafalgar Theatre), A Face in the Crowd (Young Vic), Dr Strangelove (Noel Coward), Groundhog Day (Old Vic / Melbourne), Here You Come Again (Leeds/UK Tour), A Christmas Carol (Broadway/Old Vic/San Fran/ Melbourne/US Tour), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Old Vic), Little Shop of Horrors (Regents Park), Twelfth Night, Vernon God Little (Young Vic), Jack Absolute Flies Again, A Pacifist Guide to the War on Cancer, Rocket to the Moon (NT), The Sound of Music, Present Laughter, Running Wild, Beauty and the Beast, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Goodnight Mr Tom (Chichester FT), The Madness of George III (Nottingham), Frost/Nixon (Sheffield), Sunshine on Leith (Dundee Rep), Spitting Image,  Mother Goose, The Miser, Upstart Crow, The Man in The White Suit, Love Story, Daddy Cool, The Girls, Onassis, An Ideal Husband (West End)

Opera: HMS Pinafore, The Merry Widow, Iolanthe (ENO), Porgy and Bess (Grange Park), Hansel and Gretel (Regents Park/ENO), The Gods of The Game (Sky Arts).

Film: The Grinch (NBC/SKY), Pride (BBC/Pathè), Tap Boy, Tic , Underpass (Shorts)

Lizzi is an Associate Artist of The Old Vic Theatre.

Course information:

This is a group dance workshop. Our Choreographers will teach their own routines for an hour each. They will then end the session with a group Q and A.

🗓️ 10th September
⏰ 19:00 - 21:30
📍Dance Attic
💵 £25

Email info@londontheatrerunway.com to be added to our waiting list

28

Sep

PETER NODEN & SARAH-JANE PRICE

Peter Noden - Casting Director from Stuart Burt Casting

Credits as Casting Director include Nightmares (Feature), The Frogs, Before After, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Southwark Playhouse), Songs for Slutty Girls (The Other Palace), The Coffeeshop Musical (UK Tour), Double Life (UK Tour), The Diary of Attica Lehane (Drama Studio, Sheffield), Wonderville - video artists (West End), Beautiful Young Man (Above The Stag)

Credits as Casting Associate/Assistant include Into The Woods (Bridge Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet (West End), Standing At The Sky's Edge (West End), Cabaret (KitKat Club, West End), & Juliet (West End & UK Tour), Fiddler on the Roof (Regents Park), Sing Street (Lyric Hammersmith), Muriel’s Wedding (Leicester Curve), Just For One Day (West End), Mrs Doubtfire (West End), Sister Act (West End), Chariots of Fire (Sheffield Theatres), Paranormal Activity (Leeds Playhouse), Here You Come Again (UK Tour), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (International Tour), House of the Dragon (HBO), Alien Earth (FX), House of Spoils (Blumhouse x Amazon Studios), Dreaming Whilst Black (A24 x BBC), Prime Target (AppleTV+), Dance 100 (Netflix)

Peter Noden - Mock Singing Audition

Sarah-Jane Price - Mock Singing Audition

Sarah-Jane Price - Casting Director

Recipient of the 2025 Whatsonstage Award for Best Casting Direction for Olivier Nominated Why Am I So Single? 

Currently Casting: Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Europe), Invasive Species (The King’s Head), The Turning (New Musical Workshop) and five pantomimes.

Theatre includes: Why am I So Single? (Garrick Theatre); Midnight Cowboy (Southwark Playhouse);  Madagascar (UK Tour International Tour); Pop Off, Michelangelo! (London and Edinburgh); For Tonight (Adelphi Theatre); Starry (Ameena Hamid Productions); The Hijabi Monologues (The Bush Theatre); White Rabbit, Red Rabbit (The Bush Theatre); Fame (London and UK Tour); Little Miss Sunshine (Arcola Theatre and UK Tour); Trompe L'oeil (The Other Palace); Bring it On (Royal Festival Hall); The Adding Machine (Finborough Theatre); Mr Men and Little Miss (Edinburgh / Underbelly); Frankenstein (UK Tour); Treasure Island (The Barn Theatre). Sarah-Jane also cast a retrospective season of work at The Bush Theatre and Immersion Theatre's inaugural and current season. She was Head of Casting at TED Entertainment and is Casting Consultant on concert productions of Evita, Love Never Dies, Bonnie and Clyde, The Light Princess, and more.

Her most recent credits are A Christmas Carol-ish (Soho Place), Pop Off, Michelangelo! (London), Mayä the Musical (London Workshop), Something Rotten and Oklahoma! in Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), We aren't Kids Anymore (The Savoy Theatre), Casting Director on Oxford Playhouse projects and Casting Associate on the brand new musical Burlesque in Manchester.

Course information:

These workshops are group mock auditions; Workshop leaders will send material requests to participants one week before.

During the session, participants will “audition” one at a time, whilst the others watch in.

There will then be a group Q and A at the end of the session.

There will be two groups of participants for this workshop - each group will be with one workshop leader in the morning, then groups will switch at lunch to work with the second creative.

🗓️ 28th September
⏰ 09:45 - 17:00
📍 The Umbrella Rooms
💵 £90

Sep

30

RUPERT HANDS & NICK BARSTOW

Rupert Hands - Director

Credits include: Roam: a new musical (NYC); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (London Palladium/Tokyo Theatre Orb); Wendy and Peter Pan with Jonathan Munby (Leeds Playhouse); The Society for New Cuisine, (Omnibus); Otto Weidt (Leeds Playhouse/JW3); Dirty Hearts (Old Red Lion); Blackbird (Other Room); The Secret Garden (Ambassadors); High Society, Crazy For You (Arts Ed); Songs For a New World, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Oh What a Lovely War, Candide (Mountview); Carrie, Edward ll, Spring Awakening, Company, Between Riverside and Crazy (RWCMD).

As Associate Director: Evita (Palladium); Sunset BLVD. (Savoy & St James, Broadway; Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse/Harold Pinter).

Nick Barstow - Musical Director

Nick Barstow is a musical director, composer, arranger and orchestrator. His current work as musical director includes 'feel good show of the summer' (Metro) Sing Street and the recent critically-acclaimed West End revival of Next To Normal, which was broadcast on PBS as part of their PBS Great Performances series and is soon to be seen in UK cinemas nationwide. Outside of musical theatre, he recently worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company on their new production of Much Ado About Nothing, as a voice consultant for the Royal Opera House's Ballet to Broadway: Wheeldon Works and as music supervisor on the West-End transfer of Olivier-nominated new play Accidental Death Of An Anarchist. He is currently arranger and supervisor for new musical Starter For Ten which is returning to the Bristol Old Vic after a sell-out run in 2024. As composer, he wrote and orchestrated the score for a new adaptation of The Wizard Of Oz at the Watermill in Newbury and is currently working on a new original musical with DEM Productions.

Rupert Hands & Nick Barstow - Mock Singing Audition

Course information:

These workshops are group mock auditions;

Workshop leaders will send material requests to participants one week before.

During the session, participants will “audition” one at a time, whilst the others watch in.

There will then be a group Q and A at the end of the session.

🗓️ 30th September
⏰ 18:30 - 21:30
📍The Umbrella Rooms
💵 £50

Oct

14

PAUL WOOLLER

Paul Wooller - Head of Casting for Cameron Mackintosh Ltd

For Cameron Mackintosh, Paul has previously worked on: Hair (Gielgud Theatre), Avenue Q (Theatre Royal Bath and UK Tour), Betty Blue Eyes (Novello Theatre), Oliver! (UK Tour), Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre & UK Tour), Barnum (Chichester), Half a Sixpence (Chichester & Noel Coward Theatre), Miss Saigon(UK Tour) and Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends (Gielgud).

Paul currently continues to work on the West End productions of Oliver!, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera and Hamilton as well as the National Tour of Mary Poppins and Hamilton, and the International Tour of the Les Miserables Arena Spectacular.

As Head of Casting, Paul also consults on the casting for international productions for CML and regional international companies.

As Casting Assistant for ATG, work includes Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Spamalot, Tonight's the Night, Annie Get Your Gun, Richard III, East is East and The Pride.

Paul Wooller - Mock Singing Audition

Course information:

These workshops are group mock auditions;

Workshop leaders will send material requests to participants one week before.

During the session, participants will “audition” one at a time, whilst the others watch in.

There will then be a group Q and A at the end of the session.

🗓️ 14th October
⏰ 18:30 - 21:30
📍The Umbrella Rooms
💵 £50

Email info@londontheatrerunway.com to be added to our waiting list

Oct

20

NIGEL LILLEY & JONATHAN O’BOYLE

Nigel Lilley - Musical Supervisor

Credits include: Roam: a new musical (NYC); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (London Palladium/Tokyo Theatre Orb); Wendy and Peter Pan with Jonathan Munby (Leeds Playhouse); The Society for New Cuisine, (Omnibus); Otto Weidt (Leeds Playhouse/JW3); Dirty Hearts (Old Red Lion); Blackbird (Other Room); The Secret Garden (Ambassadors); High Society, Crazy For You (Arts Ed); Songs For a New World, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Oh What a Lovely War, Candide (Mountview); Carrie, Edward ll, Spring Awakening, Company, Between Riverside and Crazy (RWCMD).

As Associate Director: Evita (Palladium); Sunset BLVD. (Savoy & St James, Broadway; Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse/Harold Pinter).

Jonathan O’Boyle - Director

Jonathan is an award-wining theatre director. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and Birkbeck, University of London where he graduated with an MFA in Theatre DirecGng. He was previously Trainee Associate Director at Chichester FesGval Theatre and Associate Director at Theatre503. 

Credits include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Prince Edward Theatre), FAME (National Youth Music Theatre), Picture You Dead (UK Tour); Austenland (Savoy Theatre); White Christmas (The Mill at Sonning); Barnum (Watermill Theatre); The Singing RevoluGon (Savoy Theatre); Pippin – 50th Anniversary Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Cruel IntenGons: The ‘90s Musical (UK Tour & The Other Palace); Calendar Girls The Musical (UK Tour, Bill Kenwright Ltd); The Last Five Years (Garrick Theatre, West End/InternaGonal Tour/Southwark Playhouse); Wish You Were Dead and Looking Good Dead (UK Tour, Josh Andrews ProducGons); Hair (Hope Mill Theatre/The Vaults/UK & InternaGonal Tours. WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off-West End ProducGon); Top Hat (The Mill at Sonning); A Guide for the Homesick, Rasheeda Speaking and Bash LaQerday Plays (Trafalgar Studios); Proud (Turbine Theatre); The View Upstairs (Soho Theatre); Rain Man (UK Tour/Bill Kenwright Ltd); Aspects of Love and Pippin (Hope Mill Theatre/Southwark Playhouse); Cruel IntenGons (Bill Kenwright Ltd); This House (Headlong and NaGonal Theatre, UK Tour, co-directed with Jeremy Herrin); Dear Brutus (Southwark Playhouse); The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit (Hope Mill Theatre); Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Cadogan Hall); Peter Pan (Park Theatre); Four Play and Sense of an Ending (Theatre503); The Surplus and All The Ways To Say Goodbye (Young Vic); The Wedding Singer, Nice Work If You Can Get It and Season’s GreeGngs (ArtsEd). 

Nigel Lilley & Jonathan O’Boyle - Mock Singing Audition

Course information:

These workshops are group mock auditions;

Workshop leaders will send material requests to participants one week before.

During the session, participants will “audition” one at a time, whilst the others watch in.

There will then be a group Q and A at the end of the session.

🗓️ 20th October
⏰ 18:30 - 21:30
📍The Umbrella Rooms
💵 £50

26

Oct

RICHARD JOHNSTON & STEPHEN CROCKETT

Richard Johnston - Associate Casting Director from Pippa Allion & Natalie Gallacher Casting

Richard is a freelance Casting Director and has also worked for Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher Casting for the last six years, as Casting Assistant and Associate Casting Director.

His work as Casting Director includes: TINA - The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre/UK tour); Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith); Coming To England (UK tour); At Last, It's Summer (London Palladium); Jack and the Beanstalk (Stratford East); Cinderella (Nottingham); Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith) and Paw Patrol Live (International tour).

As Associate Casting Director: Paddington (Savoy Theatre); The Greatest Showman (Bristol Hippodrome); Sunny Afternoon (UK tour); American Psycho (Almeida); Top Hat (Chichester & UK tour); Hercules (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Donmar Warehouse); 50 First Dates (The Other Palace); Hello, Dolly! (London Palladium); Mean Girls (Savoy Theatre/UK tour); MJ The Musical (Prince Edward Theatre); Frozen (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Moulin Rouge! (Piccadilly Theatre/World Tour); The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre/UK & International tour); The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre); Come From Away (Phoenix Theatre/ UK tour); Ain’t Too Proud (Prince Edward Theatre); Get Up, Stand Up (Lyric Theatre); Dear Evan Hansen (UK & Asia tour); Dreamgirls (UK tour); Legally Blonde (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); Tammy Faye (Almeida); The Sound of Music; Rock Follies (Chichester); Mandela (Young Vic); Midsummer; Great Expectations (Mercury Theatre); AIDA (The Netherlands); Wonka and Disney’s Snow White (Feature Film).

Richard Johnston - Mock Singing Audition

Stephen Crockett - Mock Singing Audition

Stephen Crockett - Casting Director

Stephen was Chairman of The Casting Directors Guild of Great Britain from 2012 to 2015.

He is the casting director for Mamma Mia! London and UK Tour productions, and has been casting consultant on productions in Germany, Holland, Norway, Italy, Spain and Russia.

Theatre includes: Waitress (West End and UK Tour); Fat Friends (UK Tour); 42nd Street (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); 42nd Street, Singing in the Rain, Kiss Me Kate (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris); Guys and Dolls, Funny Girl (Théâtre Marigny, Paris); Violet (Charing Cross Theatre); West Side Story (BBC Proms); Jerry Springer – The Opera (National Theatre / Cambridge); Chicago (Cambridge / Adelphi / Garrick / UK Tours); Mrs Henderson Presents (Bath Theatre Royal / Noel Coward); The Little Prince (Lyric Theatre Belfast / Dubai); The Braille Legacy (Savoy); T’Aint A Bird (Arts) Fings Ain’t What They Used To Be (Theatre Royal Stratford East); High Society (UK Tour); Light in the Piazza (Leicester Curve); My Fair Lady, Oliver! (Sheffield Crucible); West Side Story (Sage Gateshead) and Hello Dolly! (Open Air Theatre Regents Park).

Film and Television includes: Musical Ensemble Casting for Mamma Mia! the Movie & Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Universal); Nine (Weinstein Co.); The Universe (BBC); Superstar (ITV); How Do You Solve A Problem Like A Maria (BBC); Kombat Opera Presents (BBC).

Course information:

These workshops are group mock auditions; Workshop leaders will send material requests to participants one week before.

During the session, participants will “audition” one at a time, whilst the others watch in.

There will then be a group Q and A at the end of the session.

There will be two groups of participants for this workshop - each group will be with one workshop leader in the morning, then groups will switch at lunch to work with the second creative.

🗓️ 26th October
⏰ 09:45 - 17:00
📍 The Umbrella Rooms
💵 £90

When? Weekday evening

Number of participant groups? One

Length of programme? Varies for each individual workshop

Format? Group mock audition scenario led by a top industry creative

When? One Sunday each month

Number of participant groups? Two

Length of programme? 6 hours
(3 hours spent with each workshop leader)

Format? Group mock audition scenarios led by top industry creatives

When? Various short training courses throughout the year

Number of participant groups? One

Length of programme? 6 hours each day

Format? Intensive training weeks, allowing participants to hone in on their craft whilst also learning new skills

F.A.Q.

  • As with most professional training programmes, London Theatre Runway courses can improve the likelihood of a fulfilling and successful career. That said, participating in a London Theatre Runway course does not automatically guarantee you employment. Contact with our instructors and workshop leaders should be treated as a personal and career development opportunity, rather than an audition.

  • Payment will be made as you book your place in one of our workshops.

  • If you cannot attend your workshop as a result of booking a performing job, we will hold your pre-paid balance as credit for you to use towards sessions in the future.

  • We advise participants to have completed a relevant professional training programme before attending London Theatre Runway. However, if you haven't yet completed training, please ensure that your skillset is at a high standard before applying. London Theatre Runway provides training for participants to hone in on their craft, rather than teaching skills from a beginner level.

    All participants are required to be over the age of 18 by the time their chosen course begins.

    (For information regarding LTR Junior, please visit the LTR Junior page and scroll down to the FAQ’s.)

  • There is no audition process - just book your place using our online platform and away we go!

  • London Theatre Runway is not designed as an alternative to undergraduate training. Instead, the course is designed to enhance your career and to build upon the skills you have learnt through vocational programmes. Therefore, our courses are not accredited.

  • For our dance workshops, we split* participants based on confidence levels. This is because we understand that some performers excel in dance, and others are actor-singers who get fearful at the thought of a dance call. Whatever your situation, we're here to help you on your own journey. Whether you're aiming to book a job in a dance-based show, or you just need help getting through that initial movement call, we're here for you! All we ask is that you have a foundation in dance as our classes focus on building your existing skills, rather than teaching technique from scratch.

    *Participants are split on programmes involving two participant groups. For workshops with only one group, participants will be kept together, but workshop leaders are very mindful of accommodating all confidence levels.