Work Experience

Work Experience Placements are available to Year 10 & 11 students.

Work Experience placements within Arts Development are available to Year 10 & 11 students. For Health and Safety reasons, backstage or technical theatre placements are only available to over 18s. Placements last four days, Monday to Thursday and are available for the following dates:

Monday 5 - Thursday 8 December 2011
Monday 9 - Thursday 12 January 2012
Monday 6 - Thursday 9 February 2012
Monday 12 - Thursday 15 March 2012

It is a general administration placement based in Arts Development. Your main tasks while on placement will be to help with the planning, preparation and delivery of Creative Education workshops with Primary aged children and assisting on the Heydays project (an arts activity project for the over 55s). Other work during the week may also include assisting with backstage tours for a school or community group, watching a matinee performance or a visit to our Costume Hire department.

The Playhouse is inundated with placement requests, on average receiving 20 phone calls, emails and letters a week. It simply isn't possible to accommodate everybody and so we ask that you only contact us regarding the available dates listed above and recommend you book your placement early.

Please send a letter of introduction about yourself, which school you attend, your interests and the dates (from the list above) that you would like to have a placement. We ask that you also include a contact telephone number and email address.

Letters should be sent to: Placements - Arts Development, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds, LS2 7UP, and emails to lisa.parrott@wyp.org.uk