Durham Student Theatre acts as a umbrella society, representing Durham’s most successful theatre companies. This year we have 35 constituent theatre companies. Read more about them below, and click on the logos to find out more!
University-Wide Theatre Companies
DST Theatre Companies are facilitated by Experience Durham and each one brings something unique to our theatre scene.
Durham Opera Ensemble
President: Leo Zagorac
DOE is Durham’s leading opera society that puts on at least three operatic productions or concerts each year, ranging from fully staged opera to concert operas and operettas.
Contact: [email protected] [email protected]
The Durham Revue
Presidents: Leah Pinter & Tansy Adam
Established in 1974, The Durham Revue is Durham’s longest-running sketch comedy troupe.
Contact: [email protected]
Durham University Audio Drama Society
President: Emily Tarbuck
An inclusive place for audio storytelling. We produce high quality audio dramas in a friendly and relaxed environment.
Contact: [email protected]
Durham University Classical Theatre
President: Ellen Olley
DUCT is committed to producing high quality productions of plays written over a hundred years ago.
Contact: [email protected]
Durham University Light Opera Group
President: Xanthe Gibson
DULOG is Durham’s largest musical theatre society.
Contact: [email protected]
First Theatre Company
President: Maddie Hurley
1TC aims to provide support and opportunities for first-time directors and producers.
Contact: [email protected]
Fourth Wall
Presidents: Bella Chapman & Alfie Cook
Entertaining with original/ contemporary theatre, actively encouraging inclusivity and experimental theatre.
Contact: [email protected]
KEITH.
President: Christian Gale
KEITH specialises in off-the-wall sketch comedy – it’s an open-to-all group where anything goes!
Contact: [email protected]
Ooook! Productions
President: Rhiannon Morgan
Ooook! is a friendly and outreaching theatre company, specialising in comedy productions.
Contact: [email protected]
Pitch Productions
President: Jodie Sale
A theatre company providing an open, fostering platform for upcoming theatre makers and emerging writers alike. Pitch us your production, it’s as simple as that.
Contact: [email protected]
Polloi Productions
President: Nora Harper-East
Polloi Productions is a brand new company which aims to be the most inclusive in DST, whilst focusing on classical genres.
Contact: Polloi Facebook Messenger
Sightline Productions
President: Barney Watts
Sightline Productions is an outreach theatre company. Our goal is to provide a platform to increase and improve the representation of underrepresented ideas, identities, or groups within Durham.
Contact: Sightline Facebook Messenger
Shellshock!
President: Mitch Walker
Shellshock! is Durham University’s only Improvised Comedy Society, fighting a lone battle to bring unpremeditated laughter into student life.
Contact: Shellshock Facebook Messenger
Suffragette Theatre Company
President: Honor Calvert
Suffragette Theatre Company is a now independent theatre company that focuses on political and provocative theatre.
Contact: IG Inbox
The Stand
President: Sascha Lowdermilk-Oppenheim & Ivo Pope
Durham’s best, worst and only stand-up comedy society.
Contact: [email protected]
Tone Deaf Theatre Company
President: Oscar Scott
TDTC was founded in 2010 with the aim of bringing small-cast modern musicals to Durham.
Contact: [email protected]
Walkabout Productions
Presidents: Tully Hyams & Max Shanagher
Walkabout Productions is Durham’s first student theatre company to specialise in fully immersive theatre.
Contact: IG Inbox
Wrong Tree
President: Raphael Kris
Wrong Tree theatre is a collaborative theatre company that focuses on storytelling through devised physical theatre.
Contact: [email protected]
Yoghurt Theatre Society
President: Yibu Jin
We create an inclusive and diverse space for theatre in Chinese languages, filling the blanks with words that are otherwise unspoken.
Contact: [email protected]
College Theatre Companies
Each College in Durham has their own resident theatre company that posses the friendly and inclusive atmospheres expected from colleges! Many of these TCs depite thier home colleges are open to all students so don’t rule them out without checking!
12 South Theatre
President: Meg McCubbin
St. Cuthbert’s Society’s resident theatre company offering both university-wide and college-only productions.
Contact: 12 South Facebook Messenger
Bailey Theatre Company
President: Peter Houston
St John’s College’s resident theatre company: an inclusive and dynamic community, staging both university-wide and college-only productions.
Contact: [email protected]
Blizzard Theatre Company
President: George Thomas
John Snow’s resident theatre company, with a friendly and inclusive atmosphere.
Contact: [email protected]
Castle Theatre Company
President: Oscar Scott
CTC is the oldest, one of the largest, and most successful theatre companies in Durham.
Contact: [email protected]
Evangeline Theatre
Presidents: Rosaleen Tite Ahern & Nathaniel Chilton
Josephine Butler’s resident theatre company, aiming to put an innovative spin on traditional theatre in a friendly and inclusive environment.
Contact: IG Inbox
Feather Theatre Company
President: Josh Brooks
Van Mildert’s official theatre company produces high-quality productions with an emphasis on fun and inclusivity. We stage six performances a year with both open auditions and Mildert-only shows.
Contact: Feather Facebook Messenger
Foot of the Hill Theatre
Presidents: Melissa Redman & Jacob Vellucci
A Mary’s-based theatre company, focusing on comedic theatre & encouraging fresh faces to join DST.
Contact: IG Inbox
Green Door Theatre Company
President: Maria Galimberti
Green Door is St Chad’s College’s resident theatre company, but so much more!
Contact: Green Door Facebook Messenger
Hild Bede Theatre
Presidents: Emily Phillips & Francesca Horgan
Hild Bede Theatre is the largest college drama society in Durham. A vibrant community staging a minimum of three shows a year.
Contact: IG Inbox
Lion Theatre Company
Presidents: Louis Renouf & Jess Painter
Lion Theatre Company (LTC), Hatfield College’s drama society.
Contact: Lion Facebook Messenger
Perception Theatre Company
President: Louise Coggrave
South College’s Resident Theatre Company
Contact: Perception Facebook Messenger
Phoenix Theatre Company
Presidents: Genevieve Gaul
Though based in Grey, we aim to give all Durham students easy access to theatre in a fun, social and inclusive environment. We run full-scale productions while also offering casual drama sessions.
Contact: [email protected]
Rocket! Theatre Company
President: Emily Browning
Stephenson College’s theatre company; Rocket! Theatre Company aims to support all varieties of writing, stories and theatre styles and to collaborate with its fellow college theatre companies.
Contact: IG Inbox
Sixth Side Theatre
President: Ben Cawood
Sixth Side is Trevs’ resident theatre company, providing numerous performances of non-musical shows per year, for Trevs and non-Trevs students alike, with our own hexagonal flair.
Contact: [email protected]
Trevelyan College Musical Society
Presidents: Milly Wicks & Clara Dammann
Trevelyan College Musical Society (TCMS) offers an inclusive, friendly and relaxed environment. We produce high quality, high spirited, musical theatre that goes down a storm!
Contact: TCMS Facebook Messenger
Woodplayers
Presidents: Issey Dodd & Olivia Wilson
Woodplayers is Collingwood’s resident theatre company, and we are passionate about working with people of all experience and confidence levels to make fun, engaging and thought-provoking work.
Contact: [email protected] or IG Inbox