


Urban Theatre Festival
For our big stage production this year, all of our groups came together to tread the boards at Sue Townsend Theatre and deliver our Urban Theatre Festival 2023.

Finding Home at Curve Theatre
Urban Young Actors lead from the front on all three productions of Curve's brand-new series of plays that celebrate the Ugandan Asian community in Leicester.

Urban’s Red Carpet Premieres
This year we were finally able to share our latest short films with our members during two red carpet premieres. Held at the beautiful Regal Cinema in Melton, both days were so special, and it was wonderful to see all our members and their families come together to celebrate everything that went into this project.

That’s a Wrap!
At the end of November we completed our short film project, and what a month it was. Filming a short film every week over the course of four weekends, we knew that what we were attempting was ambitious, and the process wasn’t without its challenges.

On set for our latest films
The last few months at Urban have been spent planning and rehearsing for four short films. Now, somehow, we’re halfway through November with two of those films wrapped and two more to film this weekend and next!

Youth Theatre Now: Voices From The Sector
After the success of our lockdown film 'Jess', we were delighted to be invited by the National Association of Youth Theatres (NAYT) to talk about our project in their 'Voices From The Sector' webinar.

Urban win Arts Council England funding bid
We’re delighted to announce that Arts Council England has awarded Urban a grant to produce a short film project in the autumn of 2021. We are absolutely thrilled that Urban has been chosen.

U12s & 12-16s: Self-Written Short Films
Our Under 12s and 12-16s are currently shooting their own self-written short films 'Imagined' and 'Mirror Image'. Both groups worked over lockdown to devise and write two brand new screenplays and we finally began shooting at the weekend.