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 the Student Experience Directorate and each one brings something unique to our theatre scene.
Durham Opera Ensemble
President: Caleb Mock
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: durham.opera.ensemble @durham.ac.uk
The Durham Revue
Presidents: Jack Simmonds, Teagan Booker
Established in 1974, The Durham Revue is Durham’s longest-running sketch comedy troupe.
Contact: durham.revue@durham .ac.uk
Durham University Audio Drama Society
President: Wai Yau Linus Cheung
An inclusive place for audio storytelling. We produce high quality audio dramas in a friendly and relaxed environment.
Contact: dst.audiodrama@durham .ac.uk
Durham University Classical Theatre
President: Julia Kennerley
DUCT is committed to producing high quality productions of plays written over a hundred years ago.
Contact: du.classicaltheatre @durham.ac.uk
Durham University Light Opera Group
President: Xanthe Gibson
DULOG is Durham’s largest musical theatre society.
Contact: dulog.president@durham .ac.uk
First Theatre Company
President: Harry Threapleton
1TC aims to provide support and opportunities for first-time directors and producers.
Contact: first.theatre@durham .ac.uk
Fourth Wall
Presidents: Abby Greenhalgh, Jasmine Starbuck
Entertaining with original/ contemporary theatre, actively encouraging inclusivity and experimental theatre.
Contact: [email protected]
KEITH.
President: Patrick O’Connell
KEITH specialises in off-the-wall sketch comedy – it’s an open-to-all group where anything goes!
Contact: keith.sketchcomedy @durham.ac.uk
Ooook! Productions
President: Eliza Davis
Ooook! is a friendly and outreaching theatre company, specialising in comedy productions.
Contact: ooook.theatre@durham .ac.uk
Pitch Productions
President: Emily Browning
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: Saskia Smith
Polloi Productions is a brand new company which aims to be the most inclusive in DST, whilst focusing on classical genres.
Contact: polloiproductions@durham .ac.uk
Shellshock!
President: Ben Bradley
Shellshock! is Durham University’s only Improvised Comedy Society, fighting a lone battle to bring unpremeditated laughter into student life.
Contact: [email protected]
Sightline Productions
Presidents: Alexa Thanni, Ayasha Nordiawan
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.productions @durham.ac.uk
Suffragette Theatre Company
President: Abby Greenhalgh
Suffragette Theatre Company is a now independent theatre company that focuses on political and provocative theatre.
Contact: suffragettetheatre@durham .ac.uk
The Stand
President: Alex Knipe
Durham’s best, worst and only stand-up comedy society.
Contact: thestand.society@durham .ac.uk
Tone Deaf Theatre Company
President: Amelia Shelmerdine
TDTC was founded in 2010 with the aim of bringing small-cast musicals to Durham.
Contact: tonedeaf.tc@durham.ac.uk
Walkabout Productions
Presidents: Tully Hyams, Max Shanagher
Durham’s immersive theatre company. Untraditional, experience-oriented drama.
Contact: walkabout.productions @durham.ac.uk
Wrong Tree
President: Molly Knox
Wrong Tree theatre is a collaborative theatre company that focuses on storytelling through devised physical theatre.
Contact: wrongtree.theatre@durham .ac.uk
Yoghurt Theatre Society
Presidents: Cai Jin, Jingyi Yang
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
Many colleges in Durham has their own resident theatre company that posses the friendly and inclusive atmospheres expected from colleges! Many of these TCs despite thier home colleges are open to all students so don’t rule them out without checking!
12 South Theatre
Presidents: Indie Spafford and Hannah Sheppard
St. Cuthbert’s Society’s resident theatre company offering both university-wide and college-only productions.
Contact: 12souththeatre@cuths.com
Bailey Theatre Company
President: Catherine Wilcox
St John’s College’s resident theatre company: an inclusive and dynamic community, staging both university-wide and college-only productions.
Contact: bailey.theatre@durham .ac.uk
Castle Theatre Company
President: Eleanor Sumner
CTC is the oldest, one of the largest, and most successful theatre companies in Durham.
Contact: castle.theatrecompany @durham.ac.uk
Evangeline Theatre
President: Rosa Tite-Ahern
Josephine Butler’s resident theatre company, aiming to put an innovative spin on traditional theatre in a friendly and inclusive environment.
Contact: rosaleen.tite-ahern @durham.ac.uk
Feather Theatre Company
Presidents: Bede Capstick, Jo Price
Van Mildert’s official theatre company produces high-quality productions with an emphasis on fun and inclusivity. We stage performances with both open auditions and Mildert-only shows.
Contact: theatre.mildert.co.uk
Foot of the Hill Theatre
Presidents: Shannon Hill, Emily Power
One of the largest college theatre companies in Durham, FHTC is a Mary’s-based theatre company, focusing on comedic theatre & encouraging fresh faces to join DST.
Contact: marys.theatre@durham .ac.uk
Green Door Theatre Company
President: Charles Moscrop
Green Door is St Chad’s College’s resident theatre company, but so much more!
Contact: charles.moscrop@durham .ac.uk
Hild Bede Theatre
President: 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: hildbede.theatre@durham .ac.uk
Lion Theatre Company
Presidents: Emilia Lewis, Imogen Melhuish
Lion Theatre Company (LTC), Hatfield College’s drama society.
Contact: lion.theatre@durham.ac.uk
Perception Theatre Company
President: Raish Holloway
South College’s Resident Theatre Company
Contact:perceptiontheatrecompany @durham.ac.uk
Phoenix Theatre Company
Presidents: Lex Irish
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: rocket.theatre@durham .ac.uk
Sixth Side Theatre
President: Emilia Lewis
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: sixthside.theatre@durham .ac.uk
The Snow Globe
Presidents: Alexandra Tyler and Alex Wishart
John Snow’s resident theatre company, with a friendly and inclusive atmosphere.
Contact: thesnowglobe@durham .ac.uk
Trevelyan College Musical Society
Presidents: Lara Mulgrew
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: trevs.musical@durham .ac.uk
Woodplayers
Presidents: Gia Sanderson & Damola Amusa
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.