Troupers Drama Clubs

It was a joy to facilitate workshops for the fantastic schools 🚀 & youth theatres 🎭 participating in National Theatre Connections at The Lowry the other week 🕺🏻

An incredible few days was had by all! 🥳

"The Walk to Work" ☀️

Who can guess where co-founder and Head Playmaker, Jim, was lucky enough to be working last week...? 🧐

Answers on a postcard! 📬

It's back to school, which obviously means one thing: time to play!

Troupers after school drama clubs are back up and running in Didsbury, Chorlton and Whalley Range 🎭 and we're looking forward to a term jam-packed full of characters 🧛🏻‍i stories 📖 sketches🕺🏻 scenes and games galore 🥳

If you'd like a Troupers club at your child's school just get in touch and we'll get started 🏁

We want YOU! 👋

We are looking for playful 🕺🏻 imaginative 🚀 and adventurous 🧗🏾 facilitators to lead our clubs in London and Manchester. (Here's some of the team playing BinBall [🗑 🏀 ] together in Manchester. We take our training very seriously!)

If this sounds like you- get in touch ✉️ And if this sounds exactly like your friend- pass it on 🙌

Hello! This is Tommy () , our Head Playmaker in London 👋

Tommy's been leading Troupers clubs since 2016 and totally embodies what a Troupers facilitator is: fun, encouraging, kind and always willing to be the silliest person in the room! 🕺🏻

He's also a working professional actor 🎭 who has toured nationally and internationally 🌍 with shows including Mr Poppers Penguins 🐧 , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 🎩 , and Raymond Brigg's, The Bear 🐻

Oh, and his favourite game is buzzy bees 🐝 (Just in case you were wondering 🤗 )

If you wish Tommy ran the drama club at your kid's school get in touch and we'll see what we can do 🥰

I love this quote, because it sums up exactly why we started Troupers drama clubs way back in 2008🎉 : to provide a safe space for children to practice being whoever (or whatever 🤖!) they feel like being! Because the more they practice this now, they better they will be at it as they grow up. And what better skill is there than that of being exactly who you want to be? Thanks Mr Rogers 😃

Congratulations to Troupers legend and regular club leader Shane David Joseph for landing a part in the West End revival of 'Jerusalem', "The greatest British play of the century" (The Telegraph)!🎉

Shane will be working alongside Oscar winner, Mark Rylance, whose creative philosophy is all about saying 'YES' to each and every moment. We are sure Shane will feel right at home 😎

Good luck Shane, we're super proud of you and can't wait to see you rocking out on the West End stage (again!) ❤️ 🎭 ❤️

Another happy Trouper 😃 🎭 🕺

Hi everyone I'm Jim, nice to meet you 👋

I'm the co-founder and director of Troupers, which has been cracking open imaginations since 2008. As a children's theatre director and facilitator I love nothing more than helping children (and child-like adult actors!) unleash their inner silliness and explore the outer limits of their creativity 🚀

I set up Troupers while I was training as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and didn't want to work at Yorkshire bank over my Easter Holidays. But what started as a way to avoid data entry (🏴‍☠️ ) evolved into a major passion (🕺🏻) and Troupers has been helping kids bring their wildest ideas to life ever since

When your children come to Troupers they will play the best improvisation and theatre games 🥳, create characters, stories, scenes and whole new worlds together- and have laugh doing it!

There's no better way to make new friends and to learn to be kinder to yourself than by sharing and accepting ideas in an encouraging and open environment🥰. And that's what I - and all Troupers facilitators- are dedicated to creating every time we step into the teaching room.

Give me a wave or drop me a comment if you like what we're doing 😀