Take centre stage and be a part of our PlayMakers Season 2026. This year, we’re championing Northern talent…
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“A theatre company to watch” – The Stage
Box of Tricks makes plays. We champion playwrights and empower them to tell the stories they want to tell. We create heartfelt theatre that resonates, inspires and entertains by uncovering new plays that reflect the world in which we live today.
Based in Manchester, Box of Tricks is an award-winning theatre company that brings people together to share stories collectively. We stage new plays and connect with communities right across the UK. Celebrating Northern talent, our productions are staged in theatres locally and nationally as well as in public spaces – pubs, libraries, village halls – in the heart of local communities.
New plays are the lifeblood of theatre and playwrights its beating heart. Box of Tricks offers a home for playwrights to find their voice and tell their story. Our PlayMakers Network is a creative community for Northern playwrights to connect, collaborate and create. We nurture early-career North West playwrights through our year-long PlayBox attachments and commission, develop and produce bold new theatre through our New Tricks commissions.
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PlayMakers Season 2026
PlayMakers
A network for Northern playwrights and theatremakers Box of Tricks’ PlayMakers Network is a creative home for Northern…
Workshops
In partnership with venues across the North, we’re delivering Workshops for Northern theatremakers. Led by Box of Tricks’ Artistic…
Script Surgeries
Throughout this year, Box of Tricks will be offering 12 free one-to-one script surgeries for playwrights. Replacing our…
PlayMakers Circle
PlayMakers Circle PlayMakers Circle is a monthly online writing space offering accountability, connection and shared creative practice…
Merry Tricksmas! Festive Missive 2025
As we count down the days until Christmas, we’ve taken a moment to catch our breath, look back…
Assistant Producer Attachment: Meet Junfeng Liu
Over the next few months, Junfeng Liu (an Arts Management student from the University of Manchester) is joining…
Accelerate: Behind the Scenes 3
Jana Navarria “Having taken an unintentional hiatus from writing, being accepted into Accelerate was the perfect antidote. The…
Accelerate: Behind the Scenes 2
https://youtu.be/yNhmlG-3RO8?si=RNINI-de5TSPdzFT Mike Kaloski-Naylor “Accelerate has given this year momentum. Month by month we got to know each other…
Accelerate: Behind the Scenes 1
Caitlin Clough “The past few years have been really tough for me. As I have undergone cancer treatment…
Support Us
Our PlayMakers Fund is for regular supporters of Box of Tricks. Play your part from just £3 a…
PlayMakers Season 2026
Take centre stage and be a part of our PlayMakers Season 2026. This year, we’re championing Northern talent…