Elevate Festival – Behind the Scenes: Producing & Touring Theatre

Dr Caleb Lee leads a workshop on creative producing and touring theatre at Barnfield Theatre on Thursday 5 November, from 1:00 pm. It's part of the Elevate festival, and it runs for 90 minutes without an interval. The session is split into two halves: an introduction to the basics of producing and touring, followed by an open producing surgery where you can bring your own project and get specific feedback on it.

Lee is an award-winning producer and a Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, where he convenes the BA Creative Producing and postgraduate Creative Industries modules. He's also Co-Artistic Director of Five Stones Theatre, an international collective that makes dance and theatre for children and young people. If you're working on a show and wondering how to actually get it on the road, he's exactly the kind of person to ask.

The workshop sits within Elevate, Exeter Northcott Theatre's artist development programme. It grew out of the Futures Programme and is built for South-West artists taking their next steps. Membership is free and comes with press night invites, social events, and discounts at the Northcott and Barnfield bar and café. Beyond that, it offers commissions, new-work platforms, training, and continuous professional development, alongside a dedicated literary support strand for writers, free rehearsal space, up to six Associate Company slots, and a place on the Artist Assembly. It also relaunched the Young Creatives group, which bridges the Northcott Young Company and the former Futures Programme.

Tickets for the session are £2.50, exclusively for Elevate members. It starts at 1:00 pm at Barnfield Theatre on Thursday 5 November, runs for 90 minutes with no interval, and is led by Dr Caleb Lee.