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Youth & Community

During my time working with various youth and community theatre groups, I have worked with young people/adults to support in theatre and art based sessions in community settings. This has taken various mediums over the years from beginning at DIY theatre supporting their Youth drama programme back in 2022. To eventually leading then developing the Youth Theatre Programme into The Backstage Project (as seen on my young technicians page). Similarly I started GHS with Youth Drama, till I eventually started running Shortbreaks 5-11 Programme weekly and then during the holidays. Still so far to this day, run these sessions around my Technical work.​

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Thoughout my website you will see my main passion is technical theatre and engaging young people in learning these skills.  I no longer work on many of these types of youth and community projects, however, it still has a strong place in my heart. As you may see, that most of my technical work is still based within these smaller community/learning settings. 

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ORGANISATION
DATES
PROJECT
LOCATION
NOTES
LEAD
GORSE HILL STUDIOS
JAN '23 - PRESENT
SHORTBREAKS
TRAFFORD
Working with Young People with Learning Disabilities.
LEAD
DIY THEATRE COMANY
JAN '23 - JUNE '23
YOUTH DRAMA
SALFORD
Working with Young People with Learning Disabilities.
SUPPORT
DIY THEATRE COMPANY
JAN '22 - JUNE '23
DIY BUDS
SALFORD
Working with People with Learning Disabilities.
SUPPORT
OCTAGON THEATRE
SEPT '19 - JUNE '23
Bridges Youth Theatre, Bridges Company, Little Bridges, Youth Theatre, Acadamy Group
BOLTON
INC. Residential Work & Working with Young People with Learning Disabilities.
LEAD
THE LOWRY
OCT '22 & FEB '23
YES TECHNICAL THEATRE
SALFORD
Working with emerging technicians.
SUPPORT
GORSE HILL STUDIOS
JAN '22 - DEC '22
Saturday Challenge, Shortbreaks 5-11, Cooking Clyb
TRAFFORD
Working with Young People with Learning Disabilities.
SUPPORT
THE LOWRY
JULY '22 - AUG '22
Stage Directions Community Delivery & Summer Celebration
VARIOUS LOCATIONS
Working alongside schools, HAF Programmes and finishing in SD's Summer Celebration.
LEAD
ENGAGE 2 STAGE & WIGAN YOUTH ZONE
AUG '21 - SEPT '21
EXPERIMENTING WITH TECHNICAL THEATRE
BOLTON & WIGAN
Working with young people and adults with visual impairments.
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Emerging Technicians

- Technician & Facilitator

© 2026 by Philip  Harland.

LAST UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 2026

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