Winner
Long Island Theatre Awards
New York
2019

 The South Devon Players
Theatre & Film Company 
Brixham, Torbay, Devon, UK
As seen on BBC 1,  ITV,  BBC Spotlight
Creating high quality touring theatre with career-orientated actors, & theatre/film makers

We are an internationally award winning, ambitious, female-led, professional theatre production company, from the beautiful fishing port of Brixham, in Devon.
We exist to showcase the wonderful talents of regional Southwest performers at all stages of their careers, to local, national and international audiences, while providing local people, regardless of past experience or demographic identities, with local opportunities to develop & grow careers in theatre. .Our focus is performance; bringing to life researched historical dramas & classics, in​world-class touring productions, which have won national & international theatre awards,with strong elements of inclusion, safety, and education for all - and lots of joy and fun!
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About Us
The South Devon Players is a collaborative and ambitious Brixham theatre team of dedicated, career-orientated professional performers, who are working on creating careers in theatre and film for local people, and showcasing the very strong talent that exists in Torbay and South Devon (Southwest UK).
Our company directors are volunteers with strong experience in theatre and performing arts, who are working to create these opportunities for local people from all levels of experience and from all kinds of backgrounds. All funds raised go directly into creating shows and the monies from ticket sales go directly to the actors and crew in equal shares (we hope to find grants or sponsorship to increase this to full union rates).
While usually our shows are on at live physical venues, we are also responding to Covid by streaming new theatre shows online, so our work, albeit online for the time being, continues unabated.

We always welcome new performers and other creatives, who share our aims to create top quality productions, and who, regardless of previous experience, or any other demographics, want to join a lively, friendly, hardworking team, hone old skills & develop new ones, and create world-class new stage and film productions; and earn from doing so in the process.

The South Devon Players perform theatre shows in Brixham, and around Torbay / South Devon (often then touring Bristol- Penzance), based on historical events, classical stories and mythology. We also make period drama films and local interest productions.
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We are a completely non-political organisation.

People of any ethnicity, religion, background, disability, gender identity, are equally welcome to join the team. The only rule is that you respect treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and are kind, respectful & positive towards others, and work in a manner befitting a professional actor/ tech.
We do not usually accept child actors or technicians, as we are not a youth activity group.

We run a casting agency for experienced, vetted, local actors as well, as a service to people in the local area. This is completely fee-free for our actors and companies alike.

We are vehemently against "pay to play", and do not charge anyone any fee to audition, perform or become involved with us. We fund our day to day costs with a book stall at our local market, ,our eBay stall and our Friends scheme.

The South Devon Players was founded in late 2005 by two Brixham-based performers who were seeking performance opportunities in the Southwest, and having raised £80 in a carboot sale, to get started, we performed our first production in the summer of 2006. Since then we have gone from strength to strength, and are now growing rapidly, with awards won and a rapidly increasing performer, crew & audience base.
Born of local people wanting to drag themselves up by the bootstraps, the Players continue to do just that!

We are members of Brixham Chamber of Commerce.
The South Devon Players Theatre & Film Company,
is the trading name of The South Devon Players Limited;
Registered at Companies House: Company number 11569166 
Limited by guarantee
Awards won
Creative Lives Epic Award All-England winner 2017
Torbay Together; Creativity in the Community winner 2010
Theatre Actors Association 2019 Theatre Partner Award (Long Island Theatre Awards 2019)

Past certificates gained by the group for  theatre work:

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