Stage 2 Youth Theatre Company

Stage2 is Birmingham’s biggest and busiest youth theatre with around 200 young members from across the West Midlands. Stage2 has been successfully running for 25 years, giving thousands of members countless opportunities in productions and workshops, as well as offering a unique range of work experience opportunities in Technical and Backstage, Marketing, Fundraising, Mentoring and Leadership. Anyone who joins can be in a production that term without audition!

Stage2 exists to provide a safe, secure, professional and positive environment for children to learn and develop specific skills in theatre and the arts, and transferrable skills applicable to any social or work situation.

Stage2 is totally open access and welcomes anyone aged 7-21 regardless of their background, experience or financial circumstances. To ensure this, we have a Subsidy fund in place for anyone who is in financial difficulty, which pays for any part of Stage2 that costs money, through part or full bursary. We also operate an MBF accredited Peer Mentoring Scheme (detailed below), used by all our members. We promote active integration and over a third our members have a specific learning difficulty, need or challenge.