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.

June

29

NATALIE GALLACHER

Natalie Gallacher - Casting Director

PIPPA AILION and NATALIE GALLACHER CASTING

Current West End: Mean Girls; MJ: The Musical; Moulin Rouge! (& World Tour); TINA: The Tina Turner Musical; The Book Of Mormon and The Lion King.

Current UK tours: TINA: The Tina Turner Musical; The Book of Mormon; Dear Evan Hansen.

Selected West End/UK tours: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet Of 1812; Come From Away; Coming to England; Hello Dolly; Ain’t Too Proud; Get Up Stand Up; Beauty and The Beast; On Your Feet!; Dreamgirls; Funny Girl; Sunny Afternoon; Motown; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Wind in the Willows; Memphis; Bend It Like Beckham; Legally Blonde; Wicked; Billy Elliot; Top Hat; We Will Rock You: Here Lies Love; Fela! and Spring Awakening.

Theatre includes: Legally Blonde; Sound of Music; Porgy and Bess; Into The Woods; Ragtime; Midsummer Night’s Dream; Lord of the Flies; The Importance of Being Earnest (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Tammy Faye; Spring Awakening; American Psycho; Decade (Almeida); The Sound of Music; Rock Follies; Gypsy; Guys and Dolls; The Pajama Game; Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; Kiss Me Kate; Love Story (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End); Mandela; Tree; Twelfth Night; Far Away; Generations; Been So Long; The Enchanted Pig; Simply Heavenly (Young Vic); One Love - The Bob Marley Musical; The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; The Wiz; Waiting for Godot and Follow My Leader (Birmingham Rep).

Film Dance Casting: Rocketman; Wonka and Disney’s Snow White.

Future Projects: Hercules (West End) and Top Hat (Chichester Festival Theatre)

Awards: Casting Directors Guild award 2020 Come From Away; WhatsOnStage award 2023 for Spring Awakening

Natalie Gallacher - 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.

There will be ONE group of participants for this workshop. Sign ups for this workshop are separate to our Industry Insider with Natalie Gallacher & James Robert Moore.

Book now

🗓️ 29th June
⏰ 14:00-17:00
📍The Umbrella Rooms
💵 £45

29

June

NATALIE GALLACHER & JAMES ROBERT MOORE

Natalie Gallacher - Mock Singing Audition

James Robert Moore - Mock Acting Audition

Natalie Gallacher - Casting Director

PIPPA AILION and NATALIE GALLACHER CASTING

Current West End: Mean Girls; MJ: The Musical; Moulin Rouge! (& World Tour); TINA: The Tina Turner Musical; The Book Of Mormon and The Lion King.

Current UK tours: TINA: The Tina Turner Musical; The Book of Mormon; Dear Evan Hansen.

Film Dance Casting: Rocketman; Wonka and Disney’s Snow White.

Future Projects: Hercules (West End) and Top Hat (Chichester Festival Theatre)

Awards: Casting Directors Guild award 2020 Come From Away; WhatsOnStage award 2023 for Spring Awakening

James Robert Moore - Director

James trained as an actor at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, and is currently Associate Director on the upcoming production THE HUNGER GAMES ON STAGE.

As Director: GREATEST DAYS: THE OFFICIAL TAKE THAT MUSICAL (P&O Arvia & Iona), CINDERELLA and BEAUTY & THE BEAST* (Swansea Grand Theatre, *won Best Panto at the UK Pantomime Awards 2023), CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (Mountview), JACK & THE BEANSTALK (Venue Cymru) AMDRAM: A Musical Comedy (Leicester Curve), WHEN I GROW UP and BILLY THE KID (NYMT), CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (Mountview), LITTLE WOMEN (Trinity Laban) ANYTHING GOES and OUR HOUSE (Urdang).

As Associate Director: PRINCIPLES OF DECEPTION (Northampton Theatre Royal), DISNEY’S REMEMBER (Disney Cruises), 2:22: A GHOST STORY (Apollo Theatre), SHIRLEY VALENTINE (Duke of York’s Theatre), VANYA & SONIA & MASHA & SPIKE (Charing Cross Theatre), TITANIC THE MUSICAL (International Tour), MIDNIGHT (Seoul, South Korea),

As Assistant Director: CALENDAR GIRLS THE MUSICAL (Phoenix Theatre, London) THE FULL MONTY (two UK & Ireland tours), JERRY'S GIRLS (The Other Palace).

Workshops include CALENDAR GIRLS THE MUSICAL, THE ILLUSIONIST and SHE LOVES YOU.

James also hosts the podcast PASSING OUT - a series of conversations with LGBT+ service personnel and veterans, as well as “Spooked! With Colin Spectre” - an improvised comedy ghost hunting podcast.

James’ debut novel NOT GOOD ENOUGH is being published by Muswell Press in July 2025.

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 ONE group of participants for this workshop - the group will be with Natalie Gallacher in the morning, then James Robert Moore for the afternoon session.

Book now

🗓️ 29th June
⏰ 10:00 - 17:00
📍 The Umbrella Rooms
💵 £95

July

8

HARRY BLUMENAU

Harry Blumenau CDG CDA - Casting Director

Harry is a casting director for theatre, TV and film. He won the 2025 WhatsOnStage Best Casting Direction Award for Why Am I So Single?

Theatre includes Evita (Palladium), Kinky Boots (UK Tour), Scissorhandz (Southwark Playhouse), Why Am I So Single? (Garrick Theatre); Your Lie in April (Harold Pinter Theatre); Burlesque (Savoy Theatre/Manchester Opera House/Glasgow Theatre Royal); Babies (The Other Palace/Lyric Theatre); Fanny (Watermill Theatre); Unbelievable (Criterion Theatre); The SpongeBob Musical (Southbank Centre/UK Tour); Derren Brown’s Showman (Apollo Theatre); My Beautiful Laundrette (Curve Theatre/UK Tour); Death Note (London Palladium/Lyric Theatre); Dirty Dancing (Dominion Theatre/UK Tour); Treason (London Palladium/Alexandra Palace/UK Tour); Scissorhandz (Southwark Playhouse); Choir Of Man (USA Tour); Starcrossed (Wilton's Music Hall); Blippi: The Wonderful World Tour (Harold Pinter Theatre); Disruption, On The Ropes (Park Theatre); Cinderella (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Girl On The Train, Once, Private Lives, Million Dollar Quartet (Barn Theatre); Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith); American Idiot (Arts Theatre/UK Tour); Footloose (Peacock Theatre/UK Tour); Dark Sublime, Silk Road (Trafalgar Studios); Our House (UK Tour); One Man, Two Guvnors (Derby Theatre/Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Glory Ride, Soho Cinders, Mythic, The Knowledge (Charing Cross Theatre); concert productions of Wild About You, Chess, Treason (Theatre Royal Drury Lane). TV includes Prince Andrew: The Musical (ensemble casting); Derren Brown’s Showman. Film includes Tomorrow Morning, A Family Affair, Beast/Type/Song, The Hermit.

Harry Blumenau - 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.

SOLD OUT

🗓️ 8th July
⏰ 18:30 - 21:30
📍The Umbrella Rooms
💵 £45

To be added to our waiting list, please email info@londontheatrerunway.com

July

17

LUCY JENKINS

Lucy Jenkins CDG - Casting Director

Lucy is one half of JENKINS MCSHANE CASTING.

Recent West End credits include: Comedy About Spies at the Noel Coward, Bleak Expectations at the Criterion Theatre, The Play That Goes Wrong, Magic Goes Wrong, Groan Ups, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, The Kite Runner, Warhorse, Red Lion, Bombers Moon and Journey’s End.

Other recent theatre includes: Mind Mangler (Mischief, Virgin Voyages); Hound of the Baskervilles (Theatre By The Lake); Rent (Landmark Theatres); Wishmas for Secret Cinema; Recognition (Talawa); Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland and Top Girls (Liverpool Everyman); Good Luck Studio (Mercury, Salisbury, Guildford); Dead Air, Riverside Studios; Guardians of the Galaxy and Stranger Things (Secret Cinema); We Are The Best (Live Theatre); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Rapture Theatre); Close Quarters (Out of Joint / Sheffield); The Last Ship (Northern Stage & tour); Cathy (Cardboard Citizens); Trade (New Perspectives); La Ronde (Bunker Theatre); A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and Mighty Atoms (Hull Truck); The Quiet House (Park Theatre); The Divided Laing (Arcola); Wet House (Soho Theatre); Serpent’s Tooth (Talawa / Almeida).

Upcoming projects include Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (West End and tour), Cinderella for Theatr Clwyd, Beauty and the Beast for Northern Stage, Aladdin and Jack and the Beanstalk for Landmark Theatres, Medium for Watford.

Lucy and Sooki are members of the CDG and BAFTA.

Lucy Jenkins - Mock Acting 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.

Book now

🗓️ 17th July
⏰ 18:30 - 21:30
📍The Umbrella Rooms
💵 £45

27

July

DAVID GRINDROD & MICHAELA POWELL

David Grindrod - Casting Director

Theatre credits include: Back to the Future The Musical, Grease, Elf, Time Traveller’s Wife, Into the Woods, Waitress, Only Fools & Horses, Magic Mike Live, Matilda, 42nd Street, Bat Out of Hell, 5 Guys Named Moe, Ghost, Hairspray, Our House, Urinetown (West End); Mamma Mia! (Worldwide); Mamma Mia! The Party; Pride The Musical (National Theatre); Sweet Charity (Donmar); Come Fall in Love (Palace Theatre Manchester); A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day, Jekyll & Hyde (Old Vic); Sinatra, Bhangra Nation (Birmingham Rep); Chicago, Shrek, Grease, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Mrs Henderson Presents, Fat Friends, The Commitments (UK Tour); Man of La Mancha, Chess, Carousel, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, On the Town, Kismet (English National Opera); Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hello Dolly, Crazy for You (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Kiss Me Kate, West Side Story, On the Town (BBC Proms/John Wilson); Guys & Dolls, My Fair Lady, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Oliver, Sweet Charity (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); My Fair Lady, Candide, 42nd Street, Singing in the Rain. Kiss Me Kate (Chatelet, Paris); The Beggars Opera (Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris); Guys and Dolls (Theatre Marigny, Paris); A Funny Thing Happened On The Way ToThe Forum, Hello, Dolly! (Theatre de Lido, Paris).

For Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Likes of Us, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, By Jeeves, Evita, Tell Me on a Sunday, Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game, Bombay Dreams, The Woman in White, The Sound of Music, Love Never Dies, The Wizard of Oz, Stephen Ward, School of Rock, Unmasked, Cinderella.

Film credits include: Musical Ensemble Casting: Matilda, Greatest Days, Mamma Mia! Here we Go Again, Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, Mamma Mia!, UK Dancer Casting: Mary Poppins Returns, Nine; Casting Director: The Phantom of the Opera.

Television credits include: Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert, MAMMA MIA! I HAVE A DREAM (ITV), Sound of Music Live (2016 BAFTA Award), Superstar, Over the Rainbow, I’d Do Anything, Any Dream Will Do, How To Solve A Problem Like Maria (2007 Emmy Award), Kombat Opera presents… (2008 Golden Rose Montreux Award) Hollyoaks, West End Star (TV3 Sweden).

Awards include: Casting Society of America: Creative Collaboration Award. Casting Directors Guild Award for Best Musical Casting 2022 (Back to the Future The Musical).

David is proud to be Associate Artist at the Old Vic, Trustee of Watermill Theatre, Newbury, Trustee of Council of Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre, and Vice President of Arts Educational School.

David Grindrod - Mock Singing Audition

Michaela Powell - Mock Acting Audition

Michaela Powell - Director

Originally from Melbourne Australia, Michaela graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2014, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre.

Credits include Kinky Boots (UK Tour) Associate Director, An Officer and a Gentleman (UK Tour)Associate Director, School of Rock (Asia Tour) Associate Choreographer, Annie (UK Tour) Resident Director, School of Rock (UK Tour) Dance Captain / Swing, School of Rock (Australia, China) Assistant Dance Captain / Swing and Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Les Misérables(Australia, Asia, Dubai) Assistant Dance Captain / Swing.

Michaela is the Associate Director on the upcoming premier of 13 Going on 30 The Musical.

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.

Book now

🗓️ 27th July
⏰ 10:00 - 17:00
📍 The Umbrella Rooms
💵 £85

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.