The MA Applied: Arts, Action, Change will provide opportunities to work with and learn from a number of professional companies and practitioners working in the fields of applied theatre, socially engaged performance and arts-based action projects through workshops, guest lectures, weekend intensives, project work and industry placements.

Our Associate Companies include:

Arts and Homelessness International work globally at the intersection of homelessness and creativity bringing positive impacts to people, projects and policy via homeless arts festivals from the Rio Olympics to Coventry UK City of Culture; the first cultural leadership programme for creatives who are or have been homeless and policy co-creation with local councils using Legislative Theatre.

B Arts:a combined and participatory arts organisation that designs multidisciplinary arts projects that creatively intervene in people’s lives.

C & T: a company combining applied theatre methodologies with digital technologies to explore and grow creativity with children and adults.

Cardboard Citizens: An organisation that has been making Theatre with and for homeless people for twenty five years.

Creative English: a company that develops language skills by using drama, puppets and games.

Common Wealth: a socially-engaged company producing site-specific theatre events for and with communities.

Open Theatre: a company working with young people with learning disabilities through non-verbal physical theatre.

Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation): a company employing arts-based approaches when working with prisoners and staff in UK prisons.

Phosphoros: a company undertaking theatre projects with refugees and asylum-seekers.

Tender: a company using theatre-based methods to encourage healthy relationships amongst young people to help tackle domestic abuse and sexual violence.

Warwick Arts Centre Creative Learning: generating hands-on learning opportunities for schools, audiences and members of the community as part of a large-scale arts organisation.