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Live Theatre

Live Theatre is recognised as one of the great new writing theatres on the international stage. Based in Newcastle, Live is deeply rooted in the local community and is committed to telling new stories about the North today.

Live and Northumbria previously worked together on a three-year collaborative writer residency programme from 2015 to 2018, to develop practice, support creative experimentation and develop new approaches to research, teaching and learning, and engagement with theatre audiences and participants.

The current partnership (2023-26) between Northumbria University and Live Theatre enables the development and delivery of teaching and learning (across a wide range of programmes including performance, business and architecture and humanities) and creates innovative research collaborations to tackle major shared challenges including sustainability, austerity and creative industry design and resilience.

It also includes the Live team teaching a module into Theatre and Performance, support for a Creative Writing module, access to rehearsals for students, support for placements at Live Theatre, and collaboration to develop a Collaborative Doctoral Award.

Live Theatre’s academic lead: Dr. Matt Hargrave


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