EGO Creative Academy

Reach your potential and become a trained actor or backstage creative. EGO Creative Academy is our most comprehensive offering for adults aged 18+ with learning disabilities and/or autism. We offer unique, immersive training in two fields, with participants choosing either performance or backstage production. You’ll be attending weekly, full-day sessions and working as part of a professional ensemble. This is an Adult Social Care service for Coventry & Warwickshire, meaning your place can be funded through your social worker (Service No. COV 7823). Get in touch with us if you'd like help accessing this service.

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Which pathway will you choose?

Performance or Production Arts

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1. Performance

Take the centre-stage

Performance is an ensemble of adults with learning disabilities and/or autism working alongside professional actors to create new work which will be toured nationally. Develop into a trained actor, rehearsal-ready for professional work in theatre, screen industries and radio. We'll provide you with training in theatre skills such as: vocal skills (inc. accents, breath work, articulation & enunciation), physicality and characterisation. You'll also learn special skills on a production-needs basis such as dance choreography, stage-combat, acting to camera, working outside, working in promenade, working in studio, and working in large scale theatre.

  • Every Tuesday and Friday
  • 10am - 4pm
  • Adults 18 yrs +
  • Theatre performance
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2. Production Arts

Get creating backstage

Production Arts is a group of adults with learning disabilities and/or autism working alongside professional production artists to create high-quality props and sets for theatre productions. You'll be creating everything from tiny bespoke props to full-scale set designs that will be used in theatre productions at EGO and beyond, including EGO Creative Academy touring productions. By learning and honing a wide range of techniques, you will develop as an artist in your own right.

  • Every Thursday
  • 10am - 4pm
  • Adults 18 yrs +
  • Theatre set and prop-making

Hear it from our members!

What I like about academy is that we all our work hard and try our hardest.

Jasmine

I like attending the different groups and making friends

James

I enjoy Boost because I have made a lot of new friends and oldest member!! and I love Super because I have many friends in that group, one of them is Charlotte, and like the stuff we do. I have been in Alter for a long time, I love my friends and staff. EGO is like my second home and my family - they’re always there for me. I enjoy academy because we do different things to the groups and it’s fun.

Josh

EGO it’s fantastic! having fun, making new friends and being in shows.

Alex

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